GOP, Dems unite behind Senate bill fighting addictive drugs
Sep 17, 2018
Republicans and Democrats are joining forces to speed legislation combating the misuse of opioids and other addictive drugs through the Senate
Watchdog: EPA asbestos protection for schoolchildren lagging
Sep 17, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog office says the agency has been cutting back or eliminating regional programs that check whether teachers and pupils are exposed to asbestos in schools
Watchdog slams safeguards for foster kids on psych drugs
Sep 17, 2018
Federal watchdog agency slams safeguards for foster kids prescribed powerful psychiatric drugs
Mormon leaders call for new medical-marijuana plan in months
Sep 17, 2018
Mormon church leaders are calling for Utah lawmakers to pass medical-marijuana legislation by the end of the year even as they urge residents to vote against an insurgent ballot measure that would legalize it
FEMA chief: Too much blame around on Puerto Rico deaths
Sep 16, 2018
The Trump administration's disaster relief chief says that "the numbers are all over the place" from studies on the death toll from last year's Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
Niece: Family won't take in Elizabeth Smart's kidnapper
Sep 15, 2018
Days before het release from prison, fears about whether a woman who helped in the kidnapping of then-teenager Elizabeth Smart remains a threat and calls to keep her off the streets bring up deep-rooted questions about mental-health treatment in prisons
Former Colorado nuke site opens to public as wildlife refuge
Sep 15, 2018
Cyclists and hikers are exploring a newly opened wildlife refuge at the site of a former nuclear weapons plant in Colorado
Las Vegas shooting survivors, health care providers reunite
Sep 15, 2018
Survivors of the mass shooting in Las Vegas have reunited with the doctors and nurses who cared for them at an area hospital after the massacre
Chinese scientist pleads guilty in plot to steal GSK secrets
Sep 14, 2018
A Chinese scientist has pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal biopharmaceutical trade secrets from GlaxoSmithKline in what prosecutors said was a scheme to set up companies in China to market them
Exec pushes back against drug hike 'moral requirement' quote
Sep 14, 2018
The head of a small Kansas City pharmaceutical company is defending himself after a financial publication reported that he said he had a "moral requirement" to raise the price of a 65-year-old antibiotic by 400 percent
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