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Worried about breast cancer? Or AIDS? Bad as these dreaded diseases are, hospital infections kill more people yearly than both of them combined. Amazing — something caused by the hospital is so deadly. New research in the latest issue of Critical Care Medicine shows doctors and other hospital staff routinely ignore steps known to protect

America’s homeless are lawyering up to fight for a “right” to live on the street — your neighborhood and personal safety be damned. From Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles, cities are struggling with a surge in people living in cardboard boxes and doorways. Local lawmakers are trying to ban “camping out” in public, and ordering

As the death toll rises to 12 in New York’s Legionnaires’ disease outbreak, Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo are playing politics, passing the buck. But the truth is, much of the blame belongs to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for misleading health officials in New York and nationwide about the danger.

This week President Obama is hailing his Clean Power Plan as “the single most important step America has ever taken in the fight against global climate change.” Obama is posing as the environment’s savior, just as he did in 2008, when he promised his presidency would mark “the moment when . . . the rise

Good news. The R word — “retarded” — is being relegated to the trash can, just like the N word. A new national poll, commissioned by the Shriver Report, shows that nearly nine out of every 10 people consider “retard” as a boorish, cruel word that simply shouldn’t be used. The medical establishment agrees. The

Look out, Grandma. Medicare said last week it wants to start paying for end-of-life counseling. It’s being sold as “death with dignity,” but it’s more like dying for dollars. Seniors are pressured to forego life-sustaining procedures to go into hospice. That enriches the booming hospice industry and also frees up dollars for the left’s favored

Driven out by whistleblowers, Acting Inspector General of the Veterans Administration Richard Griffin finally resigned last week. Good riddance. Griffin had whitewashed and concealed information about inadequate care and phony waiting lists and tried to retaliate against truth-tellers. But don’t expect real improvement at the VA. Griffin’s successor is another bureaucratic lifer, Lin Halliday. She’s

  Consumers and businesses won big at the Supreme Court on Monday. The justices struck down an Environmental Protection Agency regulation on coal-plant emissions on the grounds that the EPA failed to consider whether the costs outweighed the benefits. Not the cost to government, mind you. The cost to us, as consumers and business owners,

  Today the Supreme Court handed a victory to the most hated agency of the federal government, the IRS. The justices voted 6-3 that the IRS can continue to offer subsidies to ObamaCare buyers in all 50 states, contrary to what the Affordable Care Act actually says. The ruling puts a stamp of approval on

Considering the Department of Veterans Affairs’ recent scandals, you’d think VA top brass would show some humility. Think again. Instead of cleaning up its act, the VA’s trying once again to sabotage the Choice program, which was supposed to allow vets to see a doctor outside the delay-plagued VA system. On Thursday, VA Deputy Secretary