“Health issues” on The Daily Caller

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a striking statistic. (more)

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Legislature on Thursday authorized Republican Gov. Jan Brewer to seek a federal waiver allowing the cash-short state to temporarily remove nearly 300,000 people from its Medicaid rolls in the first such request by a state. (more)

DENVER (AP) — Poor medical marijuana patients in Colorado won’t have pay state marijuana registration fees or sales tax on the pot they buy. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Aerospace giant Boeing is joining the list of companies that say the new health care law could have a potential downside for their workers. (more)

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The tip about a backyard marijuana-growing operation set the Pecos Valley Drug Task Force in motion. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The rate of illegal drug use rose last year to the highest level in nearly a decade, fueled by a sharp increase in marijuana use and a surge in ecstasy and methamphetamine abuse, the government reported Wednesday. (more)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Certified nursing assistant Brenda Chaney was on duty in an Indiana nursing home one day when she discovered a patient lying on the floor, unable to stand. (more)

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — With the district in a financial crisis and hundreds of its members facing layoffs, the Milwaukee teachers union is taking a peculiar stand: fighting to get its taxpayer-funded Viagra back. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — No one should be too poor to buy pot if they live in Washington, at least if the marijuana is for a medical condition. That’s the conclusion of a new medical marijuana law enacted in the nation’s capital. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The new health overhaul law is starting to produce savings for Medicare and will eventually add more than a decade of solvency to the program’s trust fund, the Obama administration said in an upbeat report released Monday. (more)

DENVER (AP) — Nearly a fifth of Colorado’s medical marijuana dispensary operators could be forced out of business in coming weeks because of new state rules barring some convicted felons from the pot business, federal drug authorities say. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion foes have won a round in the first test of how President Barack Obama’s health care law will be applied to the politically charged issue. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The D.C. Council has passed a measure to legalize medical marijuana, sending the bill to Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law is getting a mixed verdict in the first comprehensive look by neutral experts: More Americans will be covered, but costs are also going up. (more)

LONDON (AP) — An influential British medical think tank is tackling the question of how far society should go to boost the number of organ and tissue donors, and is weighing a proposal to pay for body parts. (more)

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A top lawmaker has asked West Virginia to re-examine its estimate that federal health care legislation could cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council is poised to vote on a medical marijuana ordinance after months of hammering out criteria that would shutter hundreds of dispensaries. (more)

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine has signed legislation granting chronically ill patients legal access to marijuana. (more)

ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — When Marshall Malone started his tea business six years ago, it cost him 60 cents to produce a metal tin to hold the product. Today, it costs $1.08 for Malone, who employs 10 people at his Portsmouth Tea Co. (more)

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s top judges questioned on Thursday whether a 2005 law limiting medical malpractice lawsuits is being wrongly applied to people retroactively and is discriminating against the spouses of those injured. (more)