If the US government is going to turn a blind eye to the issue of prescription opioid abuse and heroin use, the new trend wherein more people in the country are dying from drug overdoses compared to motor vehicle crashes every year will continue; more than 28,600 lives would be lost annually as it was in 2014.
In trying to determine the connection between gun violence and mental illness, health experts say that the two are not necessarily linked.
Just almost four months after revealing that his battle against melanoma, which is a type of skin cancer, has taken a turn for the worse with the cancer spreading from his liver to his brain, ex-US president Jimmy Carter has just recently announced that he is cancer-free.
The Obama administration helped signal boost the petition in order to stop parents from subjecting their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) children to conversion therapy practice.
The White House is starting close to home in its crusade against the use of antibiotics in meats with President Barack Obama's effort to reduce the use of antibiotics beginning with his own employees.