Confirmed horrifying scandal (youtu.be)
Worst treatment sandal in HNS history (so far)....
Inside the opaque world of IVF, where errors are rarely made public (wapo.st)
Worst U.S. cities for air pollution ranked in new American Lung Association report (www.cbsnews.com)
According to the report, after Bakersfield, the worst cities for year-round particle pollution between 2020 and 2022 were:...
Recipient of world's first pig kidney transplant discharged from Boston hospital (www.cbsnews.com)
The recipient of the world’s first pig kidney transplant is heading home from Massachusetts General Hospital Wednesday, nearly two weeks after the surgery....
Measles spread to at least 3 other states after trips to Florida (www.cbsnews.com)
Measles cases that turned up in at least three states this year were linked to visits to Florida, federal and state investigators concluded, shedding light on some of the early infections that have fueled an uptick of the highly contagious virus....
U.S. measles cases rise to 41, as CDC tallies infections now in 16 states (www.cbsnews.com)
At least 41 cases of measles have been reported in the U.S. across 16 states so far this year, according to new weekly figures published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
Moment Bronx medical students find out school will be tuition-free (www.youtube.com)
Florida defies CDC in measles outbreak, telling parents it's fine to send unvaccinated kids to school (www.cbsnews.com)
With a brief memo, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has subverted a public health standard that’s long kept measles outbreaks under control....
What are these (youtu.be)
What's causing measles outbreaks? Experts point to vaccination decline, waning herd immunity (www.cbsnews.com)
Measles was officially declared eradicated in the U.S. more than 20 years ago, but new outbreaks of the disease are popping up — and experts say declining vaccination rates are jeopardizing herd immunity and increasing the risk....
Prescription Drug Affordability Act aims to set limits on high medication prices (www.cbsnews.com)
Lawmakers in Springfield [Illinois] are focusing on high prescription drug prices....
Experimental ultrasound treatment targeting brains in trials to help those with Alzheimer's, drug addiction - 60 Minutes (www.cbsnews.com)
A man with Alzheimer’s, knowing there’s no cure for the disease, donned a million-dollar helmet for a cutting-edge treatment directing nearly a thousand beams of ultrasound energy at a target in his brain the size of a pencil point....
20-30 people potentially exposed to measles at Nemours Children's Hospital in Wilmington (www.cbsnews.com)
About 20 to 30 people were potentially exposed to measles in late December at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Wilmington, the Delaware Department of Health said on Thursday....
Red Cross declares nationwide emergency due to critically low blood supply (www.cbsnews.com)
The American Red Cross has declared an emergency blood shortage, saying patients are at risk of not getting lifesaving transfusions....
Possible Ozempic side effects including hair loss and suicidal thoughts probed by FDA (www.cbsnews.com)
The Food and Drug Administration is looking into whether three possible health issues or side effects, including hair loss and thoughts of suicide, might be linked to a group of medications that have boomed in popularity for their use in weight loss, including Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound....
Philadelphia Health warns the public about measles exposure at building (www.cbsnews.com)
Officials at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Pennsylvania Department of Health, and Jefferson Health want to warn the public of a possible measles exposure at a building....
Elijah McClain death: Paramedics who injected Colorado Black man with ketamine found guilty (www.cbsnews.com)
A Colorado jury on Friday found two paramedics guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Elijah McClain near his home in Aurora. The 23-year-old Black man was walking home in 2019 when he was confronted by police officers who forcibly restrained him and then the Aurora Fire Rescue paramedics – Jeremy Cooper and...
Deep flaws in FDA oversight of medical devices — and patient harm — exposed in lawsuits and records (www.cbsnews.com)
Living with diabetes, Carlton “PeeWee” Gautney Jr. relied on a digital device about the size of a deck of playing cards to pump insulin into his bloodstream....
Millions in opioid settlement funds sit untouched as overdose deaths rise (www.cbsnews.com)
Nearly a year after Montana began receiving millions of dollars to invest in efforts to combat the opioid crisis, much of that money remains untouched. Meanwhile, the state’s opioid overdose and death counts continue to rise....
Use of Plan B "morning after" pills doubles, teen sex rates decline in CDC survey (www.cbsnews.com)
The share of American women who say they have ever used emergency contraception after having sex has more than doubled since the so-called “morning after” or Plan B brand pills were approved to be sold without a prescription, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday....
Texas Supreme Court rules against woman seeking emergency abortion after she leaves state for procedure (www.cbsnews.com)
A Texas woman who had sought a legal medical exemption for an abortion has left the state after the Texas Supreme Court paused a lower court decision that would allow her to have the procedure, lawyers for the Center for Reproductive Rights said Monday....
Pneumonia and Vitamin A in China (www.youtube.com)
COVID-19 now increasing again, especially in Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, CDC says (www.cbsnews.com)
Several key COVID-19 trends that authorities track are now accelerating around the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday. It’s the first major nationwide uptick in the spread of the virus seen in months....
Acupuncture Is Useless (youtu.be)
Myles Power investigates. Acupuncture, considered superstitious and irrational as far back as the seventeenth century, gained popularity in the west when it was reintroduced by the Chinese Communist government in 1949. This reinstatement of the once outlawed practice was possibly driven by nationalistic motives or the need to...
Fact Checking Patanjali Ayurveda | Interview: Dr Sumaiya Shaikh (www.youtube.com)
BeRational: In the final part of my interview with Dr Sumaiya Shaikh, we discuss her work as a science communicator....
