The Hill Stories
- New study suggests laws aimed to drive down opioid use and overdose are "weak and slow," especially among Medicare's disabled beneficiaries.
- When the worst happens, should autonomous vehicles minimize deaths or protect passengers at all cost? Looks like we still can't make up our minds.
- Why mandatory drug treatment is backfiring.
- To find patients, the Justice Department alleges clinic operators and recruiters targeted poor drug addicts and offered them narcotics.
- Health issues can be overshadowed in the general election, but voters care more than politicians may think.
- A new study finds that even a simple industry-sponsored meal can nudge doctors into prescribing more brand-name drugs.
- WHO, PAHO, and other agencies say they need millions to implement their revised response plan from now until December 2017.
- If approved by Governor General David Johnson, Canadian physicians will be able to help terminally ill patients die.
- Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney scored a victory that had eluded more than 40 U.S. public officials who took on the powerful U.S. soda industry.
- The U.S. government announced plans on Monday to invest $200 million to help shorten the waiting list for patients waiting for organ transplants.
- Congressional Democrats on Monday urged the removal of U.S. restrictions on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, calling the policy unwarranted in the aftermath of Sunday's shooting rampage at a gay nightclub in Florida.
- Researchers find that elderly abuse in nursing homes is perpetrated by other residents as well as staff.