Health

• A 'milestone' for psychedelics: Pentagon directed to study alternative treatments for veterans

  3-1-2024 Health Washington Times - Health 28

  It's gone from an idea widely mocked on Capitol Hill to one that enjoyed broad bipartisan support as part of the recently passed defense spending...

• U.S. women are stocking up on abortion pills, especially when there is news about restrictions

  3-1-2024 Health Washington Times - Health 21

  Thousands of women stocked up on abortion pills just in case they needed them, new research shows, with demand peaking in the past couple years at...

• A missing person with no memory: How investigators solved the cold case of Seven Doe

  2-1-2024 Health Washington Times - Health 26

  Buried at the edge of a Chicago Catholic cemetery are an elderly person's remains marked only by a cement cylinder deep in the ground labeled with...

• Experts debate the future of 'mental toughness' in child-rearing

  2-1-2024 Health Washington Times - Health 20

  Mental health experts are divided over the concept of mental toughness -- bearing down on one's performance in the face of adversity -- as an ideal...

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• Stress and success: Mental health vs. mental toughness

  1-1-2024 Health Washington Times - Health 26

  In the 2021 Summer Olympics, all eyes were on Simone Biles as she led the U.S. gymnastics team on its quest for the gold.

• Sen. Fetterman says he thought news about his depression treatment would end his political career

  31-12-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 24

  Sen. John Fetterman acknowledges having "dark conversations" about harming himself before he hit "the emergency brake" and sought treatment for...

• Sen. Fetterman says he thought news about his depression treatment would end his political career

  31-12-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 23

  Sen. John Fetterman acknowledges having "dark conversations" about harming himself before he hit "the emergency brake" and sought treatment for...

• At the stroke of midnight, the New Year gives a clean slate for long-elusive resolutions

  31-12-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 21

  It's an annual end-of-year exercise in futility for many. But a clean slate awaits at the stroke of midnight for the next round of resolutions.

• Man freezes to near death after stowing away on plane from Algeria to France

  31-12-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 31

  A man was hospitalized with hypothermia Thursday after hiding on an Air Algerie flight from Oran, Algeria, to Paris Orly Airport.

• Consulting firm McKinsey and Co. agrees to $78 million settlement with insurers over opioids

  31-12-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 24

  Consulting firm McKinsey and Co. has agreed to pay $78 million to settle claims from insurers and health care funds that its work with drug...

• U.S. seizes more illegal e-cigarettes, but new ones are launching

  31-12-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 22

  Federal officials are seizing more shipments of unauthorized electronic cigarettes at U.S. ports, but thousands of new flavored products continue...

• Judge allows lawsuit that challenges Idaho's broad abortion ban to move forward

  30-12-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 22

  An Idaho judge on Friday denied a request by the state's top legal chief to throw out a lawsuit seeking to clarify the exemptions tucked inside the...