Robert King

GNC's Herbal Plus series offers a line of herbal-extract supplements, such as grape seed extract meant to be an antioxidant. (AP Photo)

GNC boosts testing of supplements after scrutiny

Robert King · March 31, 2015 6:22 pm

The tax credits are calculated based on how much a taxpayer makes, the state they live in, age and how many children they have. (AP)

IRS won’t penalize people for failing to say they have health insurance on tax form

Robert King · March 30, 2015 10:37 pm

An American healthcare workerÃ¢â¬â¢s condition continues to improve, as the National Institutes of Health upgraded the worker to fair condition. (AP Photo)

Ebola patient getting better

Robert King · March 30, 2015 3:35 pm

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case arguing a key Medicare panel is unconstitutional, putting an abrupt end to an effort to gut a controversial part of the healthcare law. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner File)

Supreme Court won’t hear ‘death panel’ challenge

Robert King · March 30, 2015 3:20 pm

Hamburg warned against spurring innovation "by lowering standards for safety and efficacy." (Getty)

Efforts to peel away rules concern outgoing FDA head

Robert King · March 28, 2015 9:00 am

President Barack Obama speaks at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House releases plan to combat resistant infections

Robert King · March 27, 2015 3:06 pm

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has declared a public health emergency late Thursday for a county that has nearly 80 confirmed cases of HIV, all linked to drug abuse. (AP Photo)

Indiana declares public health emergency for HIV outbreak

Robert King · March 27, 2015 2:34 pm

The Ebola virus has hit Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia the hardest so far. (AP Photo)

NIH: Ebola virus not mutating at a fast rate

Robert King · March 26, 2015 10:13 pm

(Graphic: Avalere Health LLC)

Obamacare struggling to enroll high-income Americans

Robert King · March 26, 2015 4:45 pm

Health workers wearing Ebola protective gear remove the body of a man that they suspect died from the Ebola virus, at a USAID, American aid Ebola treatment center at Tubmanburg on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

American Ebola patient’s condition improves

Robert King · March 26, 2015 4:44 pm

"This is not a Congress that has a great scientific background or in many cases believes in it," Rep. Slaughter said. (Getty File Photo)

Energy and Environment

Congress hesitant to move on curbing antibiotic use in livestock

Robert King · March 26, 2015 9:00 am

At the end of March, Medicare payments to doctors will plunge dramatically unless Congress temporarily averts the cuts in what's become popularly known as the "doc fix." (iStock Photo)

Medicare ‘doc fix’ bill would add $141 billion to deficit: CBO

Robert King · March 25, 2015 5:57 pm