Health

• Federal court reviews New Mexico governor's gun-carry restrictions as states explore options

  4-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 34

  An effort to suspend gun-carry rights in public parks, playgrounds and other areas where children are often present went under the legal microscope...

• Biden says all 10 selected drugmakers will participate in Medicare price negotiations

  3-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 25

  The primary manufacturers of all 10 drugs targeted by President Biden as too costly will participate in the first-ever round of Medicare price...

• California repeals COVID misinformation law, bowing to legal pressure

  3-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 30

  California has repealed a misinformation law that restricted the advice doctors could give patients about COVID-19, bowing to mounting legal pressure.

• Selma Blair helps White House salute landmark disability legislation

  3-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 22

  Actor and disability rights advocate Selma Blair on Monday helped President Joe Biden mark the legacy of the Americans with Disabilities Act and...

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• Years of research laid the groundwork for speedy COVID-19 shots

  3-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 23

  The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded Monday to two scientists whose work led to the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

• California's new mental health court rolls out to high expectations and uncertainty

  3-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 35

  An alternative mental health court program designed to fast-track people with untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders into housing...

• Nobel Prize for medicine awarded to scientists who paved the way for mRNA vaccines

  2-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 24

  The Nobel Prize committee said Monday it will honor two scientists whose findings laid the groundwork for messenger-RNA vaccines that were used to...

• Study finds lonely people more likely to get Parkinson's disease

  2-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 36

  People who often feel lonely are more likely to contract Parkinson's disease independently of clinical depression and other risk factors such as...

• U.S. health officials propose using a cheap antibiotic as a 'morning-after pill' against STDs

  2-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 47

  U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a morning-after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to try to avoid some...

• Nobel Prize for medicine awarded to scientists who paved the way for mRNA vaccines

  2-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 30

  The Nobel Prize committee said Monday it will honor two scientists whose findings laid the groundwork for messenger-RNA vaccines that were used to...

• Nobel in medicine goes to 2 scientists whose work enabled creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

  2-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 36

  Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

• Pakistan launches anti-polio vaccine drive targeting 44 million children amid tight security

  2-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 29

  Pakistan launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year Monday in an effort to inoculate 44 million children under the age of 5...