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Health Regional 

Judge Delays Decision on Removing Texas Baby’s Life Support

December 13, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
babies, ethics, Medicine, Texas

A judge newly assigned to decide if a Texas hospital can remove a 10-month-old girl from life support against her mother’s wishes said Thursday she was allowing more time for a facility to be found that would take Tinslee Lewis,  even as a doctor said the most basic activity “causes pain.”

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Civil Rights Government Health 

Abortion

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019 BRIEF
abortion, Alaska, Brief4, Constitution, Medicine, planned parenthood, pregnancy

Planned Parenthood claims Alaska and its Board of Nursing unconstitutionally prohibit advanced practice clinicians from providing gynecological care, including “safe, early abortion and miscarriage care, which they are highly qualified to provide.”

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Civil Rights Government Health 

Midwives

December 12, 2019December 12, 2019 BRIEF
Brief4, Georgia, health care, Medicine, pregnancy

A longtime certified professional midwife claims the Georgia Board of Nursing unconstitutionally threatens to fine her $500 every time she uses that title, “or even utters the verboten word ‘midwife’ to describe herself.”

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Health Science 

New Drugs Show Promise Against Breast Cancer

December 12, 2019December 13, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
cancer, Medicine, pharmaceuticals

Doctors on Wednesday reported unusually good results from tests of two experimental drugs in women with an aggressive form of breast cancer that had spread widely and resisted many previous treatments.

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Health International Science 

Dangerous Childbirth Practices Persist in Europe

December 12, 2019December 13, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Europe, Medicine, pregnancy

When Clara Massons was in labor with her son, a midwife climbed onto her bed and pushed down on Massons’ belly, saying she was helping to deliver her baby.

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Appeals Civil Rights Health Law 

High Court Refuses Check on Kentucky Pre-Abortion Ultrasound Rules

December 9, 2019December 9, 2019 TIM RYAN
abortion, Kentucky, Medicine, pregnancy, U.S. Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a Kentucky law that requires doctors to show and describe ultrasound images to patients seeking abortions.

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Health Science 

Drug Found to Curb Dementia’s Delusions

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
brain, diseases, Medicine, pharmaceuticals, Research, Sci2

A drug that curbs delusions in Parkinson’s patients did the same for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in a study that was stopped early because the benefit seemed clear.

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National 

Jimmy Carter Hospitalized With Infection

December 3, 2019December 3, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Georgia, Medicine, politician

Former President Jimmy Carter was admitted to a south Georgia hospital over the weekend for treatment of a urinary tract infection, a spokeswoman said Monday.

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Civil Rights Government Health Regional 

Utah Becomes 19th State to Ban ‘Conversion Therapy’ for LGBT Children

November 27, 2019December 2, 2019 NATHAN SOLIS
children, LGBT, Medicine, mental health, Utah

In a victory for the LGBT community, the state of Utah will ban the controversial practice of conversion therapy for children.

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Health National 

Dying Too Young: Deaths Spike Among Working-Age US Adults

November 26, 2019November 27, 2019 CARSON McCULLOUGH
health care, Medicine, opioids, Research

More Americans are dying while still in the prime working years of the lives, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Courts National 

Justice Ginsburg Released From Hospital

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
judges, Medicine, U.S. Supreme Court

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been released from a Baltimore hospital where she had been treated for a possible infection, the Supreme Court said.

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Courts Government Health 

Ginsburg Hospitalized for Treatment of Chills and Fever

November 23, 2019November 25, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
judges, Medicine, U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized after experiencing chills and fever, the court said Saturday.

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Government Health Religion 

2nd Judge Blocks Trump Administration ‘Conscience Rule’ for Health Workers

November 19, 2019November 20, 2019 MARIA DINZEO
abortion, Christianity, health care, LGBT, Medicine, Trump administration

A federal judge blocked a Trump administration “conscience rule” late Tuesday that would have expanded protections for health care workers with religious objections to certain medical procedures, just two days before it was set to take effect.

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Politics 

Trump’s Hospital Visit Draws Skeptical Reaction

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Donald Trump, Medicine, Pol3

President Trump’s unscheduled weekend visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center raised suspicions about his health, despite White House officials’ insistence that he was merely getting a head start on his annual physical.

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Health Politics 

Warren Envisions Slow Rollout of Medicare for All

November 15, 2019 AMANDA OTTAWAY
Elizabeth Warren, health care, Medicare, Medicine, Taxes

About two weeks after announcing her plan to provide Medicare for All without raising middle-class taxes, Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren explained Friday how she intends to launch that new health care system.

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Health International Science 

Second Ebola Vaccine Employed in DR Congo

November 14, 2019November 14, 2019 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
AP3, Congo, diseases, Ebola, Medicine, vaccines

The Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday introduced a second vaccine to fight a 15-month-old epidemic of Ebola in the east of the country, Doctors Without Borders said.

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Civil Rights Health International 

New Zealand Euthanasia Bill Passes; Referendum Next

November 13, 2019November 13, 2019 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
AP3, Medicine, New Zealand, referendum

New Zealand lawmakers voted Wednesday in favor of making euthanasia legal, paving the way for the issue to be put to voters in a referendum next year.

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Government Health 

Prisoner’s Diagnosis

November 12, 2019November 13, 2019 BRIEF
Connecticut, dbrief2, deliberate indifference, Medicine, prisons

A federal court in Connecticut declined to dismiss a prisoner’s civil rights suit against a prison doctor. The prisoner alleges the physician was “deliberately indifferent towards his facial lesion, which was later diagnosed as basal cell carcinoma.” The doctor did not order a biopsy or a follow-up appointment. 

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Environment Health International 

Grin and Bear It: Berlin Panda Gets CT Scan for Kidney Exam

November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
animals, Germany, Medicine, Sci4

A Berlin zoo says a giant panda whose twin cubs have captured international attention has undergone a CT scan after veterinarians discovered one of his kidneys was smaller than the other.

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Health National 

Ill Vaper Undergoes Double Lung Transplant

November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Medicine, surgery, Vaping

Doctors at a Detroit hospital have performed what could be the first double lung transplant on a man whose lungs were damaged from vaping.

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