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Under the guise of “reform,” President Obama is dismantling Medicare — dooming seniors to needless pain and disability and shortening their lives. The stakes are high, because Medicare and the access it gives patients to medical innovations have transformed aging. Before Medicare, older folks languished in nursing homes or wheelchairs with crippling illnesses. Now, seniors

This week, mosquitoes capable of transmitting Zika start biting in Florida, the Gulf states and southern California. It’s the “virus from hell,” warns Peter Hotez, Dean of Baylor University’s School of Tropical Medicine. Hotez is urging women to delay getting pregnant. He worries expectant mothers in these states are already being bitten and next spring

President Obama’s top banker Janet Yellen gave a somber assessment of the current job market this week, throwing cold water on the president’s election-year message that voters should elect a Democrat to the White House again. Obama’s been bragging that America has “the strongest” economy in the world. And pigs can fly. Growth under Obama

Federal officials are predicting  doom because a Pennsylvania woman became infected with a germ that can’t be stopped by most antibiotics.  “The medicine cabinet is empty for some patients,” warned Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Thomas Frieden last week. You’d think the CDC was finally ready to get serious about drug-resistant infections.  Think

Republicans in Congress are pledging to approve funding for President Obama’s Zika program when they return to the Capitol next week. But first they ought to do something highly unusual: read the bill before voting on it. What they will find is that the president is not leveling with Congress or the American people about his Zika plans. He

Federal officials are warning that mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus will start biting and infecting US residents in the next month. Key trouble spots are southern Florida, Louisiana, Texas and southern California, but the risk could extend farther north. The virus inflicts horrific brain damage on unborn children as well as neurological disorders in adults.

President Obama’s Medicare cuts are killing seniors. His health law, the Affordable Care Act, tries to cut Medicare spending by paying bonuses to hospitals that spend the least per senior. The result? Hundreds of hospitals are skimping on care to win Uncle Sam’s bonuses. Seniors at these hospitals aren’t getting the right antibiotic or other

The rap on Donald Trump is he’s all bluster. The New York Times says he’s offering “incoherent mishmash.” GOP rival Ted Cruz claims Trump has “no idea” how to fix the economy. Don’t’ believe it. The Trump campaign is putting forward proposals to fix problems facing the nation, from the long waits for medical care at

Middle-aged people laid off and unable to find work are taking another way out. They’re killing themselves. Suicide rates are soaring, according to federal data released last week. Especially in economically depressed states and job-starved upstate New York. People in need of work are twice as likely to take their own lives as employed people,