The agency said that no food had been identified yet as the source of the outbreak, which has sickened 14 people in Ohio and 15 in Michigan. View original article Contributor: Michael Levenson and April Rubin
A federal judge ordered the big pharmacy chains to bear about one-third of the responsibility for fueling a deadly drug crisis. View original article Contributor: Jan Hoffman
Incensed when two other men won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, he took out a newspaper ad that called his exclusion a “shameful wrong that must be righted.” View original article Contributor: Richard Sandomir
Here’s how a scrappy team of scientists, public health experts and plumbers is embracing wastewater surveillance as the future of disease tracking. View original article Contributor: Aliza Aufrichtig, Emily Anthes and Jonah Markowitz
An external review of the agency’s performance during the coronavirus pandemic concluded that its public guidance was “confusing and overwhelming.” View original article Contributor: Sharon LaFraniere
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Market Is Expected To Reach USD 477.29 Billion and CAGR Of 21.57% By EIN News >View original article Contributor:
Did you text Mom recently asking if you had been vaccinated against polio? So did we. View original article Contributor: Remy Tumin
President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law this afternoon, with a package that includes sweeping climate and tax initiatives and the biggest change to health care policy since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. The new law works to bring down skyrocketing drug prices, one of the most intractable problems … Read more
Until recently, polio had been a relic of history in the U.S. Once a scourge that paralyzed or killed up to tens of thousands of children every year, the U.S. declared the disease officially eradicated in 1979, thanks to widespread vaccination. But polio is back. On July 21, the New York State Department of Health … Read more
California teenagers can snooze a little later this year, thanks to a newly implemented law that says most high schools and middle schools cannot start before 8:30 a.m. and 8 a.m., respectively. That law—the first in the country to set statewide mandates for school start times—isn’t only big for California students, but also for public-health … Read more