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An anti-smoking group is renewing pressure on federal regulators to examine the safety of electronic cigarettes.

Prominent House Republicans are relaunching efforts to stop the Obama administration from giving states waivers under welfare reform.

GOP leaders of several committees reintroduced a bill Thursday that would block the policy, which Republicans say "guts" welfare's work requirement.

"This legislation makes it clear — the Obama administration cannot undermine the work requirement that has resulted in higher earnings and employment for low-income individuals," said Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) in a statement. 

The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday approved the nomination of William Schultz to be the top lawyer at the Health and Human Services Department.

The panel approved Schultz's nomination 23-1. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) cast the only "no" vote.

GOP drafts plan to give Obama discretion on cuts

Governors' D.C. summit dominated by Medicaid, the sequester

Key long-term-care insurer to raise women's premiums

The Obama administration is moving forward with a long-dormant proposal to institute minimum wage and overtime standards.

Demand for cosmetic procedures rose in 2012 as more Americans asked for Botox, fillers and chemical peels, according to new figures.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) reported Tuesday that the number of cosmetic procedures performed in the United States rose by 5 percent last year to 14.6 million.

The vast sum of those procedures were minimally invasive treatments, not surgeries, the association said. 

Rep. Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) will join a powerful healthcare subcommittee in the 113th Congress.

Smith won a spot on the Ways and Means Committee's subcommittee on health. The committee finalized its subcommittee assignments Friday after adding its final Republican member.

The subcommittee's GOP roster includes some of the party's heavyweights on healthcare policy, namely Reps. Paul Ryan (Wis.) and Tom Price (Ga.).

A newly introduced, bipartisan bill would allow federally funded research into organ transplants between two HIV-positive people.

Federal law bans research into whether such transplants could work. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), would allow federal funds to be used for research into transplants where both the donor and recipient are HIV-positive.

“This legislation will allow those infected with HIV greater hope in obtaining organ donations by lifting the federal ban on research and allowing sound science to explore organ exchanges between HIV-positive donors and HIV-positive recipients,” Coburn, who is a physician, said in a statement.

Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) took to the Internet Tuesday night before and after President Obama’s State of the Union address to answer questions on Reddit.

Polis responded to questions for several hours on the popular website, which hosted President Obama’s “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session in August of 2012. The site also spearheaded opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act.

AMA’s are self-posts by users inviting other users to ask them any questions they may have. President Obama’s generated so much traffic that the website had difficult staying up.

Wal-Mart medical clinics trail CVS, generating 39 percent growth.

Slower growth of health costs eases U.S. deficit.

New SARS-like virus infects British patient in tenth case globally.