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South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (1721+ words) Doctors say they lack information about the severity of measles complications as it spreads around them. In mid-January, an unassuming man in khakis and a button-down shirt walked to a wooden lectern at a school board meeting in Spartanburg County,…...
Public Health Experts Sound Alarm as Feds Keep Deploying Tear Gas Near Kids
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (1772+ words) We don't know the long-term effects. We don't understand their effects on children," said a pediatrician. From the roof of the "Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Portland, Oregon, federal agents late last month watched as thousands of people…...
Critics Warn TrumpRx Will Further Enrich Big Pharma, Not Reduce Drug Prices
2+ week, 1+ day ago (496+ words) Trump's son is on the board of a prescription drug platform that may benefit from the direct-to-patient medicine sales. US President Donald Trump on Thursday launched a website, branded with his name, in a purported effort to help patients buy…...
Report Shows RFK Jr. Plainly Lied About Samoa Visit When Being Confirmed
2+ week, 2+ day ago (515+ words) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his 2019 trip to Samoa was unrelated to vaccines, but emails from officials say otherwise. Newly released emails show that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. openly lied during multiple Senate confirmation hearings last year…...
Measles Infection Count in January Topped Total Cases in 2023 and 2024 Combined
2+ week, 4+ day ago (534+ words) If infections continue at their current pace, the US could see triple the number of measles cases seen last year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified nearly 600 cases of measles in the U.S. in the first month of…...
Measles Reported at ICE Jail in Dilley, Texas
2+ week, 5+ day ago (932+ words) This is an untenable situation with a simple solution " families should never be detained," said one lawyer. Two detainees at the nation's only current immigrant family detention center, 70 miles south of San Antonio, have active measles infections," federal and state…...
Minneapolis Health Care Workers Are Organizing to Defend Their Patients From ICE
3+ week, 6+ day ago (571+ words) Organizing and rights trainings have helped health care workers protect their colleagues and their patients. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have created a crisis in Minneapolis hospitals since escalating anti-immigrant operations in the Minnesota city in early December. "This…...
Trump Admin Has Made Future of Federal Funding for Cancer Research Uncertain
4+ week, 3+ hour ago (1350+ words) At one groundbreaking breast cancer research lab, work that could save lives has slowed significantly. Inside a cancer research laboratory on the campus of Harvard Medical School, two dozen small jars with pink plastic lids sat on a metal counter....
US Will Likely Lose Its Measles Elimination Status This Spring
4+ week, 2+ day ago (587+ words) The rise in measles cases comes after a year of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplaying the importance of vaccines. After months of peddling disinformation about measles vaccines, Trump administration officials appear to be planning to fight to keep the U.S.s measles…...
Mamdani and Sanders Join Picket Line as NYC Nurses’ Strike Enters 10th Day
1+ mon, 3+ hour ago (674+ words) One contract priority is keeping ICE out of medical facilities, says nurse and lead strike organizer Michelle Gonzalez. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I'm Amy Goodman. This is Senator Sanders speaking from the picket line. AMY GOODMAN:…...