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San Antonio's University Health offering free drive-thru flu vaccinations this fall
4+ day, 30+ min ago (21+ words) University Health personnel deliver vaccinations during a free event. University Health and Bexar County will offer free drive-thru flu vaccinations at...
Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America pledges $100M to cut US maternal mortality rate in half
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (625+ words) Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, a bipartisan campaign founded by philanthropists Olivia and Tom Walton, announced a $100 million pledge Thursday to make giving birth in the United States safer. The five-year commitment aims to cut the maternal mortality rate in…...
Trump administration stalled a survey of PFAS in wastewater, former EPA officials say
1+ week, 3+ day ago (724+ words) WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has stalled a study that would help regulators understand which industries dump harmful forever chemicals with their wastewater, according to two former agency officials who were involved in its development. A public notice shows the first…...
Congo authorities report more than 6,000 confirmed Ebola cases and nearly 3,000 deaths
2+ week, 11+ min ago (330+ words) More than 1,360 people have recovered from the virus, in what authorities said was an “encouraging” development. The outbreak in eastern Congo is spreading under extremely difficult conditions, fueled by insecurity, displacement, a health workers’ strike and intense population movements. The…...
Measles deaths reported in Pennsylvania spark fight among politicians and health officials
2+ week, 2+ day ago (845+ words) NEW YORK – The recent announcement of Pennsylvania’s first measles-related deaths in decades has ignited a public feud among politicians and health officials who disagree over the role of the contagious disease in the fatalities. Independent experts say the conflict is…...
A Dutch institute issues a 'Red Alert' over potentially lethal Trump-shaped ecstasy pills
2+ week, 2+ day ago (239+ words) THE HAGUE – A Dutch drug addiction and mental health institute warned users on Friday about potentially lethal ecstasy pills shaped to look like the head of U.S. President Donald Trump. The respected Trimbos Institute said that several of the pills…...
Beloved New Orleans hospital, wracked by floods and grief in Hurricane Katrina, to get a makeover
2+ week, 3+ day ago (528+ words) NEW ORLEANS – In the chaos of Hurricane Katrina, Charity Hospital in New Orleans became a scene of heartbreak and heroism, with doctors scrambling to keep patients alive without power or functioning medical equipment while floodwaters trapped them inside its darkened…...
Exclusive: RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1045+ words) Kennedy, then a prominent anti-vaccine activist, preceded the visit with a letter to the Samoan prime minister requesting to study the Pacific island nation’s measles, mumps and rubella vaccines after the deaths of two children who had received them. In…...
Target, Amazon recall cake doughnuts over undeclared milk
2+ week, 5+ day ago (263+ words) Target is one of the retailers pulling certain prepackaged doughnuts from shelves. A new recall involving prepackaged cake doughnuts has prompted major retailers, including Target and Amazon, to warn customers about an undeclared allergen that caused at least one person…...
Pennsylvania reports first 2 measles deaths in the US this year, both people unvaccinated
2+ week, 5+ day ago (718+ words) FILE - This undated image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Feb. 4, 2015, shows an electron microscope image of a measles virus particle. (Cynthia Goldsmith/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, via AP, File) PHILADELPHIA – Two unvaccinated…...