Former Surgeon General Says Politics Took Priority
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Richard H. Carmona told a House hearing Tuesday that he believed his task as surgeon general from 2002 to 2006 was to improve "health literacy" using the best medical and scientific data he could collect. But top Bush administration officials, Carmona testified, had other ideas. The following are...
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Former President Bill Clinton defends his administration's attempt to reshape the nation's health care system in a new book, saying the effort "was killed by politics, not the plan's particulars."
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Just before landing one of the three most powerful posts on Beacon Hill in 2002, Senate President Robert Travaglini underwent bypass surgery and battled thyroid cancer.
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The recent hospitalization of the US Supreme Courtâs leading conservative judge, William H. Rehnquist, due to thyroid cancer is serving as an opportune reminder that more is at stake during this election than the presidency but also likely vacant seat
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US Treasury Secretary John Snow on Friday is expected to renew his call for Capitol Hill action on President George W. Bush&#39;s health care ideas
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U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson will not need additional surgery, the U.S. Capitol physician said on Thursday, adding the South Dakota Democrat was having an "uncomplicated post-operative course."
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The first U.S. surgeon general appointed by President George W. Bush accused the administration on Tuesday of political interference and muzzling him on key issues like embryonic stem cell research.
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White House officials viewed former surgeon general Richard H. Carmona as a public relations tool, pushing him to make political appearances and promote the Bush administration's agenda while he was in office, according to a series of executive branch e-mails released yesterday by Sen. Edward M....
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President George W. Bush's surgeon general nominee disputed critics' claims that he holds "anti-gay" views and told senators on Thursday he would quit before bowing to political interference in his job.
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The experience of other people who have suffered bleeding from arteriovenous malformations inside the brain suggests that Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.), who underwent emergency surgery for that condition Wednesday night, has at least a 50-50 chance of full recovery.
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The general brought in to command Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the wake of a scandal over conditions at the hospital was nominated by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates yesterday as the new surgeon general of the Army.
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The doctor is out. But was he ever in? On Friday, surgeon Brian W. Amy appeared to have engineered an improbable move from being Mississippi's embattled top health official to overseeing efforts to improve quality of care in the federal Medicare program.
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A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration's policy...
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Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson was in critical condition after brain surgery, the U.S. Capitol physician said on Thursday, an illness that could deprive Democrats of their precarious hold on the incoming Senate.
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Running for president a second time after collecting few votes in 2004, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio) continues calling for a single-payer health-care system that covers all Americans, and for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
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When questions are raised about the heart safety of drugs used by millions, Dr. Steven E. Nissen often raises a red flag. Nissen, chairman of the Cleveland Clinic's department of cardiovascular medicine and an outside adviser to the Food and Drug Administration, calls himself the "point on the end of the spear" during drug safety debates. Nissen spoke with Globe ...
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Former President Bill Clinton can  anticipate a fully productive life after coronary bypass  surgery, but may need to take a daily handful of pills and curb  his fast-food habit to keep his arteries from re-clogging, top  cardiologists said on Friday.