Dan Diamond

• Politics

After an Oklahoma woman was told to wait in the parking lot until she got sicker, abortion rights advocates had hoped the hospital would be punished.

• Health

Public health experts said the episode illustrated a missed opportunity to learn more about the virus early in the global health emergency.

• Health

In recommending marijuana be reclassified to a Schedule III drug, the Department of Health and Human Services acknowledges its medical use for the first time.

• Health

Political advisers warn that President Biden could lose support by banning menthol cigarettes, the product of choice for many Black smokers.

• The Health 202
• Analysis

• The Health 202
• Analysis

The chairman of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is launching an investigation into the four largest manufacturers of inhalers in the United States, he told The Washington Post.

• Health

Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo’s false claims that mRNA coronavirus vaccines contaminate DNA imperils lives as respiratory viruses surge this winter.

• Health

The ruling deals a blow to the White House’s strategy to ensure access to abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

• Health

No national strategy exists to reverse a years-long slide that has left the United States trailing peer nations in life expectancy.