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Blood is collected during a blood drive at Saint Vincent Health Center in Erie, Pa., on July 19, 2010. The Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 23, 2014, recommended an end to the nation's lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, a 31-year-old policy that many medical groups and gay activists say is no longer justified. (Associated Press/Erie Times-News, Jack Hanrahan) **FILE**

Gay rights video mocks FDA blood proposal

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Nine-year-old Nowa Paye is escorted to an ambulance after showing signs of the Ebola infection in the village of Freeman Reserve, located about 30 miles north of Monrovia, Liberia, one of the hardest-hit countries in the current disease epidemic. (associated press)

Ebola testing kit appoved by FDA

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

In this July 19, 2010 file photo, blood is collected during a blood drive at Saint Vincent Health Center in Erie, Pa. (AP Photo/Erie Times-News, Jack Hanrahan, File) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT **FILE**

Blood donation ban for gay men should be lifted, say federal officials

By Matthew Perrone - Associated Press

New government regulations just announced will require anyone who sells food to the public to count their customers' calories. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

EDITORIAL: Government regulated nutrition labels

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The new regulation will require any business that has 20 or more locations and offers food that is meant for eating on the premises or take-out to label the calories in those items. The regulations go into effect in one year. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

NICK NOVAK: Whatever happened to limited government, personal responsibility?

By Nick Novak

American Red Cross worker Scott Moore prepares to draw blood from Apollo High School student Hanna Pierskalla during a blood drive at the school in St. Cloud, Minn., Wednesday, March 20, 2014. The annual drive is organized by the Apollo Student Union. The number of 16-year-old blood donors in Minnesota has risen steadily since state law was changed in 2008 to allow their participation. Teens are a key demographic in blood donations, Minnesota Red Cross communications program manager Sue Thesenga said. &quot;Twenty percent of our blood donations come to us from high school and college students in the academic year,&quot; she said. The number of participating 16-year-olds in Minnesota has grown from 3,700 donors in the 2009 fiscal year to 5,000 during the 2013 fiscal year. Thesenga estimates that 16-year-olds can now give blood with parental consent in 45 states. When the law was passed in Minnesota in 2008, that number was closer to 25. (AP Photo/The St. Cloud Times, Dave Schwarz) NO SALES

FDA ponders change to gay blood donation policy

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Slurpees are good to go at a 7-Eleven store in Concord, N.H. But there is no word yet on whether elected officials will be sipping the sweet slushy drink Thursday while discussing tax cuts in the White House at a gathering jokingly dubbed the "Slurpee Summit." (Associated Press)

Obamacare’s newest mandate: Post calorie counts of slushies

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this July 2012 photo provided by Ryan Boyko, Boyko is shown working in a lab in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Boyko, a Yale doctoral student, said Tuesday Oct. 28, 2014, that the Connecticut order to quarantine him at home following his return from Liberia earlier in the month was based on politics, not science. Boyko, 30, has been confined to his apartment in New Haven out of concern that he was exposed to Ebola while helping Liberia's government develop a computer system to track the virus. (AP Photo/Julia Randall)

Military’s Ebola screening device approved by FDA for use in U.S. hospitals

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Liberty Cigar Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

KEENE: Too much fun for the anti-cigar spoilsports to allow

By David Keene - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 30, 2014 file photo, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg answers questions during an interview at The Associated Press in Washington. While Hamburg acknowledged that opioids are overprescribed, she again emphasized the importance of keeping the drugs accessible to Americans with chronic pain _ a group estimated at about 100 million, or about 40 percent of all U.S. adults (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

FEULNER: The trouble with banning trans fats

By Ed Feulner

In this Jan. 14, 2014 photo, Dr. Matthew Memoli, an infectious disease specialist, handles doses of live flu virus before administering it to a research participant, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Government researchers are deliberately giving dozens of volunteers the flu by squirting the virus straight up their noses. The rare type of experiment is part of the quest to improve flu vaccines. It turns out that how best to fend off influenza remains something of a mystery. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

300 vials labeled influenza, dengue found at lab

By Matthew Perrone - Associated Press

FILE - This 1975 file electronmicrograph from the Centers for Disease Control shows the smallpox virus. Government officials say workers cleaning a storage room at the National Institute of Health's campus in Maryland made a startling discovery last week _ decades-old vials of smallpox forgotten in a cardboard box. (AP Photo/CDC, File)

Forgotten vial of smallpox found in NIH storage room

By Andrea Noble and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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FDA: Public blood-pressure kiosks don’t always measure up

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, June 19, 2014, photo, technical assistant Eliska Didyk transfers human fecal matter solution into a bottle in an OpenBiome laboratory, in Medford, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

FDA grapples with oversight of fecal transplants

By Matthew Perrone - Associated Press

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EDITORIAL: The FDA cuts the cheese

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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FDA threatens industry on wood boards; artisan cheese world melts down in ‘disbelief’

By Candice Choi - Associated Press

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg answers questions during a newsmaker interview at the Associated Press in Washington, Friday, May 30, 2014. Hamburg said the agency will soon advise consumers on the appropriate levels of mercury in seafood. In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, Hamburg said the agency does not plan to require labels, as requested by consumer groups, but will issue guidance on how much mercury can be present in different kinds of products. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

FDA taking another look at mercury in seafood

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg listens to a question during a newsmaker interview at the Associated Press in Washington, Friday, May 30, 2014. Hamburg said the agency will soon advise consumers on the appropriate levels of mercury in seafood. In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, Hamburg said the agency does not plan to require labels, as requested by consumer groups, but will issue guidance on how much mercury can be present in different kinds of products. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Highlights from AP interview with FDA’s Hamburg

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg answers questions during a newsmaker interview at the Associated Press in Washington, Friday, May 30, 2014. Hamburg said the agency will soon advise consumers on the appropriate levels of mercury in seafood. In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, Hamburg said the agency does not plan to require labels, as requested by consumer groups, but will issue guidance on how much mercury can be present in different kinds of products. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

FDA to update seafood guidance for pregnant women

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press

Highlights from AP interview with FDA’s Hamburg

By The Associated Press - Associated Press