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Congress

First Opinion

No respect for John McCain’s vote on the Senate health care bill

By Renée M. Landers

Politics

By a hair, Senate votes to debate GOP health care bill

By Associated Press

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Health

Does McCain’s return to Washington carry medical risks?

By Kate Sheridan and Casey Ross

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First Opinion

Adding ‘right to try’ to FDA user fee bill would undermine the agency’s work

By Kelly McBride Folkers

Politics

In a critical year for drugmakers, campaign donations, PAC activity are on the rise

By Jay Hancock, Elizabeth Lucas, Sydney Lupkin — Kaiser Health News

Pharmalot

Democrats, recycling old ideas, call for a federal ‘enforcer’ to tackle drug price gouging

By Ed Silverman

In the Lab

DEA solicited applications to grow marijuana for research. It hasn’t approved one

By Andrew Joseph

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Politics

Senate parliamentarian’s ‘guidance’ on abortion creates new hurdle for health bill

By Alan Fram — Associated Press

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Politics

Uber and the gig economy used to love Obamacare. What happened?

By Erin Mershon

Health

What to know about Sen. John McCain’s brain cancer diagnosis

By Sharon Begley

Politics

With collapse of GOP health care effort, Congress faces a long ‘to-do’ list for health policy

By Erin Mershon and Lev Facher

Politics

Two more GOP senators oppose health care overhaul, dooming bill for now

By Associated Press

Politics

Senate vote on health care delayed after McCain surgery

By Associated Press

Health

‘Are you saying I’m dying?’ Training doctors to speak frankly about death

Politics

NIH fetal tissue research would be barred under House panel’s spending plan

Politics

New Senate health bill includes option for lower-cost, skimpier insurance

By Associated Press

First Opinion

Coverage for catastrophic care imperiled by proposed Obamacare replacements

By Anirudh Srirangam

Politics

Research leaders: We need to roll up our sleeves, not roll our eyes

Politics

Trump administration may have to convene board that inspired ‘death panel’ fears

By Erin Mershon

Politics

House poised to pass bill critical for drug industry; the Senate may be a slog

By Erin Mershon

Health

Drive to help nursing home patients live independently could face deep cuts under GOP health plans

By Cassie M. Chew

First Opinion

Sixty years after ‘The Pill,’ the war on contraception continues

By Erin Saleeby

Politics

How the GOP and Democrats might begin to compromise on health care

By Lev Facher and Erin Mershon

Biotech

Before a biotech stock debacle, one Republican congressman made a prescient trade

By Damian Garde

First Opinion

The Senate health care bill will block more from buying insurance

By Rachel Gershon

Politics

Setting Medicaid aside, the House Heroin Task Force searches for common ground

First Opinion

Medicaid cuts would jeopardize children’s access to quality health care

By DeWayne Pursley and John Zupancic

Politics

House Republicans backed this biotech — and lost big. Its stock is now worth 4 cents a share

By Damian Garde

First Opinion

Missing from the debate over health care: patients’ voices

By Sally Okun

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