Category Archives: Health
Congressional members share own abortion stories at hearing
Three Democratic members of Congress on Thursday offered deeply personal testimony about their own abortions as a congressional committee examined how to respond to conservative states that are passing laws limiting abortion access.
School board group asks US for help policing threats
A group representing school board members around the country asked President Joe Biden on Thursday for federal assistance to investigate and stop threats made over policies including mask mandates, likening the vitriol to a form of domestic terrorism. ...
S Carolina court upholds mask ban; trumped by federal ruling
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two days after a federal judge decided that South Carolina's ban on school mask requirements discriminates against medically fragile students, the state Supreme Court disagreed, in a ruling that won't change the week's events.
US stem cell clinics boomed while FDA paused crackdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of clinics pushing unproven stem cell procedures caught a big break from the U.S. government in 2017: They would have three years to show that their questionable treatments were safe and worked before regulators started crack...
AP-NORC poll finds deep divide over Biden vaccine mandate
A survey of Americans on President Joe Biden’s plan to require most workers to get either vaccinated or regularly tested for COVID-19 finds a deep and familiar divide: Democrats are overwhelmingly for it, while most Republicans are against it.
‘It’s really scary:’ Alberta physicians face more aggressive, misinformed patients
EDMONTON — Some family physicians in Alberta say they are dealing with an increasing number of aggressive, misinformed and untrusting patients who want a note exempting them from getting a COVID-19 vaccine. Two of three Calgary doctors who spoke to The...
As deaths rise, vaccine opponents find a foothold in Bosnia
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Hospitals across Bosnia are again filling with COVID-19 patients gasping for air, and the country's pandemic death toll is rising. Yet vaccination sites are mostly empty and unused coronavirus vaccines are fast appro...
Agonizing choices as Dems debate shrinking health care pie
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are debating how to divide up what could be a smaller serving of health care spending in President Joe Biden's domestic policy bill, pitting the needs of older adults who can't afford their dentures against the
California governor signs laws aimed at homeless crisis
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed seven new laws on Wednesday aimed at addressing the state's homelessness crisis, pleading with a skeptical public to have patience as the nation's wealthiest and most populous state struggle...
Rapid test program is for businesses, Ontario says, after parent groups place orders
TORONTO — Ontario is keeping a free rapid COVID-19 testing program limited to businesses after parents across the province tried using it for their school-aged kids. A spokeswoman for Health Minister Christine Elliott said the program was designed to ...
