Opponents of an effort to repeal California’s new stricter law requiring mandatory vaccines for school children failed to submit enough signatures to qualify for a ballot initiative asking voters to repeal the law, according to some reports. County election clerks reported receiving fewer than 234,000 of the 366,000 signatures needed to ask California voters to repeal […]
SCANDAL – Nurse at pharmaceutical company busted reusing dirty syringes
A New Jersey nurse administering flu shots to dozens of employees of a pharmaceutical company reused syringes, the state Department of Health said Wednesday. State and local health officials, as well as the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are recommending testing for hepatitis B and C and HIV, which can spread via blood. […]
New heart valve risks for thousands of patients revealed
Here’s something everyone should know: According to new reports, doctors have discovered a potential problem involving implanted heart valves that hundreds of thousands of people have received. They don’t always open and close properly, possibly because a blood clot has formed that could raise the risk of stroke. Although the problem appears common, experts stressed […]
Three new Nobel prizes announced. And the winners are…
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering drugs against malaria and other parasitic diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people every year. The Nobel judges in Stockholm awarded the prestigious prize to Irish-born William Campbell, Satoshi Omura of Japan and Tu […]
Major US city admits water supply may be toxic
Your water may have been poisoned for months. At least, that’s according to reports out of Michigan. Officials in the state declared a public health emergency Thursday over the city of Flint’s water in response to tests that showed children with elevated levels of lead. Residents had been complaining for months about their water’s smell […]
New study finds a useful tip for quitting smoking
There may be a better way to quit smoking, according to a new study. Smokers who switched to special low-nicotine cigarettes wound up smoking less and were more likely to try to quit, researchers found. The study only lasted six weeks, and researchers call the evidence preliminary. But they say it’s the first large study […]
Fraud Alert: Unexplained ambulance rides that cost $30 million
Make up an ambulance ride, and bill the tax payer. According to the Associated Press, Medicare paid $30 million for ambulance rides… which have no records that any patients got medical care at their destination, no record of the place where they were picked up, and lack other critical information. The mystery ambulance rides are […]
So long, malaria?
LONDON (AP) — Malaria could be wiped out by 2040, despite the lack of an effective vaccine, previous failed attempts to eradicate the disease and drug resistance problems, the United Nations and Microsoft founder Bill Gates said in a report released on Monday. Gates and Ray Chambers, the U.N. secretary-general’s special envoy for malaria, said […]
Gene test finds which breast cancer patients can skip chemo
Many women with early-stage breast cancer can skip chemotherapy without hurting their odds of beating the disease — good news from a major study that shows the value of a gene-activity test to gauge each patient’s risk. The test accurately identified a group of women whose cancers are so likely to respond to hormone-blocking drugs […]
Outrage! Feds targeting whistleblowers for protecting veterans
Whistleblowers from Veterans Affairs facilities across the country call the VA’s Office of Inspector General a “joke” and say the agency continues to retaliate against them despite repeated pledges to stop punishing those who speak up. The whistleblowers told a Senate committee Tuesday that the VA has failed to hold employees accountable more than a […]
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