The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the Safe Use Initiative, a program aimed at reducing the likelihood of preventable harm from medication use. “Too many people suffer unnecessary injuries from avoidable medication misuse, e...

Statistics released today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed that 7,783 criminal incidents involving 9,168 offenses were reported in 2008 as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national...

Tom Perriello Medicare is a critical part of our promise to our seniors and it must be protected. I want to clear up some misinformation about recent changes to Medicare and explain some recent victories for Virginia’s seniors that I have been working...

Carrie Brown Glimmer Train Press recently announced that Carrie Brown, Sweet Briar College’s Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence, is the first-place winner in its September Fiction Open competition. Brown won for her short story “Bomb,” which will...

Surgery is one of the most invasive, difficult and expensive procedures in medicine. For close to a century, Presidents and congressional leaders have debated ways to fix this country’s health care system. Late Wednesday, the U.S. Senate introduced...

Closure through 2 December 2009. Emergency Closure Number 210E, covering selected tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay, is being issued to close shellfish harvesting effective November 19, 2009 through December 2, 2009. These actions continue as a...