Skip to content
Advertisement

Health_Medical_Pharma

Latest Stories

20120801-214410-pic-657613186.jpg

20120801-214410-pic-657613186.jpg

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with local women during a tour of the Philippe Senghor Health Center in Dakar, Senegal, on Wednesday.

20120801-205612-pic-170620952.jpg

20120801-205612-pic-170620952.jpg

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, “is saying you’re not compromising your principles — you’re getting yourselves a step closer to our principles by working with the tea party” to help elect Mitt Romney, says Jenny Beth Martin. (Associated Press)

20120731-224907-pic-808240707.jpg

20120731-224907-pic-808240707.jpg

Former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz, once considered a long-shot underdog for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate, defeated Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in the party’s Tuesday primary runoff, and the reason appears to be his strong support from state tea-party conservatives. It’s a sign of the movement’s growing national clout. (Associated Press)

20120731-214701-pic-674309828.jpg

20120731-214701-pic-674309828.jpg

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III, as a candidate for the position, vowed to tackle the “pay to play” culture. (The Washington Times)

20120731-184841-pic-540293347.jpg

20120731-184841-pic-540293347.jpg

For faithful right-wingers, the vote by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to uphold President Obama’s health care law is akin to a romance gone wrong. “He’s suddenly like a fiance who makes out with your best friend at your engagement party in front of all your guests,” a New York-based therapist says. (Associated Press)

20120731-183428-pic-283414552.jpg

20120731-183428-pic-283414552.jpg

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is greeted Tuesday by Egyptian Defense Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi in Cairo. Mr. Panetta also met for the first time with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. (Associated Press)

Health Care Announcem_Live.jpg

Health Care Announcem_Live.jpg

**FILE** North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue (left) and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius watch a pediatric primary care scenario before Sebelius announced that Duke Hospital would be one of five hospitals selected to participate in a new initiative to train more advanced practice registered nurses on July 30, 2012, at Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, N.C. (Associated Press/The Herald-Sun)

ROMNEY31.jpg

ROMNEY31.jpg

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney meets Polish veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as he visits the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, July 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

20120730-194312-pic-440229284.jpg

20120730-194312-pic-440229284.jpg

A U.S. Army recruit negotiates the confidence course during the white phase of basic combat training at Fort Jackson, S.C., on June 14, 2006. The training lasts nine weeks and is divided into red, white and blue phases. Soldiers in the white phase are in their final three weeks. (Department of Defense/Staff Sgt. Stacy L. Pearsall, U.S. Air Force)

20120729-192306-pic-997853665.jpg

20120729-192306-pic-997853665.jpg

The Club for Growth Action has spent about $5.5 million to try to push tea party insurgent Ted Cruz to victory. The Texas Conservatives Fund, which backs Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, has doled out $5.2 million to attack the tea party favorite. (Associated Press)