On Passover Eve Rockland County Bars the Unvaccinated from Synagogues
But the worst affected countries included Ukraine , Madagascar and India, where there were tens of thousands of cases per million people. World Health Organization warned that there are delays in reporting and that this data may be incomplete. More..
AG William Barr testifies in House hearing
Barr also said, in response to questions by Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), that the redacted version of the Mueller report that Congress would see would be the same one that the public sees. Testifying before the Hous...More..
Democrats demand Trump tax returns by April 23
Neal argued in this second letter that the law granting him the authority to request tax documents is "Unambiguous and raises no complicated legal issues that warrant supervision or review by" the Justice or Tr...More..
Those Expensive Vitamins You Take Might Not Be Helping You Live Longer
And ultimately, the research has found only associations and does not prove that certain nutrients in foods lengthen life. In addition to the excessive calcium risk link, the study also found evidence that ...More..
Mueller report: the endless wait is nearly over
The inquiry is separate from the Justice Department's inspector general probe on the matter, a source told Bloomberg News. Attorney General William Barr has assembled a team to review controversial counte...More..
Measles outbreak: City declares public health emergency with 285 confirmed cases
At least 285 confirmed cases of measles in Brooklyn and Queens have been reported since October, according to the New York City Health Department . "We will make sure that everybody who is allowed will be va...More..
Auris Is a Deadly Threat Amid Rise of Anti-Bacterials
The Center for Disease Control reports almost half of patients who contract Candida auris die, and the fungi spreads very easily and can take over a hospital room, leading some hospitals to keep the outbre...More..
Dallas reports first confirmed measles case since 2017 | Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The statewide total of 39 measles cases is the highest since 65 cases were reported in 1991. Meanwhile, in southeast MI, the Oakland County Health Department is hosting a special measles vaccination clinic ...More..
Trump says no healthcare vote until after 2020 election
McConnell said he was fine with lawmakers working on narrower health care issues - such as prescription drug prices- but, he stressed that "we will not be doing comprehensive [health care] in the Senate". S...More..
Federal judge rules against Kentucky’s Medicaid waiver
Hutchinson wants an appeal of that ruling. Efforts by the Trump administration and Republican-governed states to weed out Medicaid beneficiaries via work requirements hit a major legal hurdle today as a DC ...More..
Congressional Republicans rattled by Trump's pivot to ObamaCare fight after Mueller summary
In a filing Monday with a federal Appeals Court in New Orleans, the administration said the entire law should be struck as unconstitutional. And 75 percent of health-care voters supported Democrats in House r...More..
Pelosi to unveil House Democrats’ plan to strengthen Affordable Care Act
A group of red state attorneys general follow up in court by arguing that, because the law was created to function as a seamless whole, eliminating one major component requires the elimination of the entire res...More..
Measles Case Confirmed in Calaveras County
Officials believe that case is linked to the four other confirmed and three suspected cases in the county. OHA officials say the patient is linked to a contagious traveler who visited the area from IL last mont...More..
New Book Unveils Beto O’Rourke History in Computer Hacking
Menn spoke to O'Rourke about the group while he was running for the U.S. Senate previous year, and several other members of the Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) agreed to go on the record to talk about the group's ac...More..
Teen vaccine rebel Ethan Lindenberger testifies to US Congress
Ethan Lindenberger , a teenager from Norwalk, Ohio, traveled to Washington, D.C., to speak at a health, education, labor and pension committee hearing Tuesday on a panel alongside health experts including Joh...More..
Scientists Cure Man of HIV Using ‘Superpower’ Cells
AIDS research and human retroviruses, 2015. "The hope is that lessons can be learned to help develop more widely applicable therapeutic approaches for attaining HIV remissions or cures". If left untreated, HIV ...More..
Chicago police looking for source of leaks in Smollett case
The accused workers were reportedly fired on the spot, and without much explanation, after Northwestern completed its review. . Smollett's attorney Mark Geragos says police have been insidiously working to ru...More..
Lilly to Introduce Lower-Priced Insulin | Proteins and Peptides
USA drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co plans to sell a half-price version of its Humalog insulin injection, as it fends off criticism about rising drug prices. The announcement comes as the skyrocketing cost of ins...More..
'London patient’s' HIV remission brings hope to millions
Ten years after the first confirmed case of an HIV-infected person being rid of the deadly disease, a man known only as the " London patient " has shown no sign of the virus for almost 19 months, doctors repor...More..
GE surges after agreeing to US$21.4B sale of BioPharma unit
GE shares opened almost 14 percent higher at $11.57 on February 25 while Danaher stock was up just over 9 percent at $123.94 at the open. The biopharma unit is part of GE Life Sciences , which also inclu...More..
YouTube videos aimed at kids discovered to include self-harm tips
Last year, pediatrician and mother, Free N. Hess, published on her website, Pedimom.com, a post from an anonymous mother who reported a horrifying incident where a YouTube Kids video they were watching was ...More..
Trump administration to ban abortion referrals by taxpayer-funded clinics
Each year, roughly $2 million in federal funds are given to the organization for health care services. "The new Title X regulations are a win-win for all Americans", Mancini said. It doesn't mean that poor wo...More..
BC looking into vaccination registry due to measles outbreak: health minister
Wednesday was so-called "exclusion day" in OR - the last day children can attend school without their required immunizations. Similarly, Dr. Rio Magpantay, DoH-Region 2 health director, said the department wo...More..
Trump Praises Hannity, Limbaugh, Carlson, Ingraham; Takes a Dig at Coulter
Trump offered no acknowledgment on Wednesday that his pressure tactics had failed even as aides sought to minimize the damage by tamping down criticism on the right. Aside from Coulter, a handful of Trump's Fo...More..
Refugee 'medivac bill' passes Australia's lower house
The Opposition Australian Labor Party (ALP) joined forces with the Greens and independent Members of Parliament (MPs) to pass the medical evacuations bill by 75 votes to the governing Liberal-National Party c...More..