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Ebola deaths in Congo top 500 as health workers threaten to strike
Officials have yet to identify the outbreak’s patient zero and still need to trace possibly tens of thousands of people who have come in contact with infected individuals.
Judge rejects claims dog pepper-sprayed by mailman caused children's asthma
The family of two children in San Diego claimed a USPS mail carrier repeatedly and maliciously pepper-sprayed their family dog, which resulted in their two young children developing asthma.
DOJ enjoined from receiving minors’ medical info
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal court in California enjoined the acting U.S. Attorney General from requesting, receiving, disclosing or otherwise obtaining information about a class of minors who sought or received gender-affirming care at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. The Department of Justice may not seek their health information such as diagnoses and assessments, materials that describe the care provided to them or relate to parent or guardian authorization for their care. This information would violate the patients’ constitutional privacy rights.
Long Island ambulette operators charged in $35 million Medicaid fraud scheme
Both defendants were filmed making illicit payments to undercover law enforcement agents, prosecutors say.
Once a source of national pride, Cuba's healthcare system declines as energy shortages deepen crisis
The Trump administration is pressuring Cuba’s socialist government to implement major economic reforms and change its way of governance in return for a lifting of sanctions.
Novartis stumbles in challenge to Missouri discounted drug mandate
The drug giant claimed the law violated the dormant commerce clause by discriminating against interstate commerce.
Hospitals in Europe are gearing up for the next heat wave armed with lessons from this one
Efforts to plug some of the holes exposed by the heat wave that shifted eastward to other parts of Europe after battering France, the United Kingdom and other countries are accelerating on a national level, too.
What came after Covid could reshape medicine
The RNA technology used widely during the pandemic is already being adapted to fight the flu, RSV — and even for personalized cancer vaccines.
EEOC files disability discrimination suit against FedEx
FedEx ignored accommodation requests for blind package handlers, the EEOC claims.
Supreme Court sides with GOP states on anti-trans sports ban
As Republican states and the federal government passed more restrictive laws, the high court set itself as the final arbiter of transgender rights.
Challenge to prison tobacco ban goes up in smoke at Europe's rights court
The grounds for dismissal raise a question: If inmates don't follow up with complaints once they're released, how can courts fairly address questions about conditions in detention?