Why the FDA will have a hard time properly regulating cannabis ( www.statnews.com )
Supreme Court to weigh whether Covid misinformation is protected speech ( www.statnews.com )
As social media sites were flooded with misleading posts about vaccine safety, mask effectiveness, Covid-19’s origins and federal shutdowns, Biden officials urged platforms to pull down posts, delete accounts, and amplify correct information....
Embryo loss is integral to IVF. Alabama’s ruling equating embryos with children jeopardizes its practice ( www.statnews.com )
An embryo is one of the earliest stages of development of a multicellular organism. But according to the Supreme Court of Alabama, it is a person, too — an unborn child, entitled to the same legal protections as any minor....
Infant deaths increased after Texas banned abortion in early pregnancy ( www.statnews.com )
Among the causes of infant deaths, one increased the most: congenital abnormalities, which increased 22.9% in Texas in children between 2021 and 2022, while they decreased 2.9% in the rest of the country. That trend suggests that at least in some cases, parents were forced to carry a pregnancy to term while knowing their...
Michigan reports a human case of bird flu, the nation’s second linked to H5N1 outbreak in dairy cows ( www.statnews.com )
Early tests of H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest U.S. bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread ( www.statnews.com )
Michigan stands out for its aggressive bird flu response. Will other states follow its lead? ( www.statnews.com )
A new discovery about carbon dioxide is challenging decades-old ventilation doctrine ( www.statnews.com )
Oral ketamine tablets effective for treating depression, new study finds ( www.statnews.com )
People in Republican-voting states more likely to report Covid-19 vaccine side effects, study says ( www.statnews.com )
People in Republican-voting states were more likely to report adverse events after receiving a Covid-19 vaccination than people living in Democratic-leaning states, a new analysis finds, suggesting that how people view their post-vaccine side effects or decide whether to report them may be shaped by their political views....
CNN debate moderators could provide the cognitive tests that Biden and Trump have been avoiding ( www.statnews.com )
Drug treatment that insists on abstinence? Federal agencies are just saying no ( www.statnews.com )
Updated Covid vaccine has 54% effectiveness, new data suggest ( www.statnews.com )
New data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that the most recent Covid-19 booster offers about 54% percent protection against infection with the virus....
House panel passes bills to expand Medicare obesity drug coverage, cancer screening ( www.statnews.com )
Many docs who tweeted product endorsements also took money from manufacturers, analysis shows ( www.statnews.com )
Early tests of H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest U.S. bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread ( www.statnews.com )
Early tests of H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest U.S. bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread ( www.statnews.com )
As midwife-assisted home births rise, so too do high-risk births outside hospitals ( www.statnews.com )
Biden and Trump are fighting to claim credit for $35 insulin. It was actually a pharma giant’s idea ( www.statnews.com )
House Republicans press for new guardrails on 'gain-of-function' research by NIH ( www.statnews.com )
Smoke exposure from California's wildfires linked to 52,000 early deaths, study says ( www.statnews.com )
The U.S. banned asbestos, but its health impact will still be felt for decades ( www.statnews.com )
A new rule announced by the Environmental Protection Agency this week puts an end to the use of asbestos, a known carcinogen, in the United States. But researchers caution that we’ll likely still be dealing with the mineral’s public health harms for decades....