Washington Times - Health

• U.S. life expectancy rose last year, but it remains below its pre-pandemic level

  29-11-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 18

  U.S. life expectancy rose last year - by more than a year - but still isn't close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Texas Supreme Court takes up judge's temporary order easing abortion restrictions

  29-11-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 30

  The Texas attorney general's office urged the state Supreme Court to lift a temporary hold on the state's abortion law, arguing that the Democratic...

• Pope cancels trip to Dubai for U.N. climate conference on doctors' orders after getting the flu

  29-11-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 26

  Pope Francis canceled his trip to Dubai for the U.N. climate conference on doctors' orders Tuesday even though he is recovering from the flu and...

• Ransomware attack prompts multistate hospital chain to divert some emergency room patients elsewhere

  29-11-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 29

  A ransomware attack has prompted a healthcare chain that operates 30 hospitals in six states to divert patients from at least some of its emergency...

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• North Carolina governor uses Medicaid expansion to slam Trump

  29-11-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 26

  North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper warned Tuesday that any effort to repeal Obamacare would dash his hard-won push to expand Medicaid coverage to...

• Trump says he will renew efforts to replace 'Obamacare' if he wins a second term

  28-11-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 23

  Former President Donald Trump threatened over the weekend to reopen the contentious fight over the Affordable Care Act after failing to repeal it...

• France to ban smoking on beaches as it seeks to avoid 75,000 tobacco-related deaths per year

  28-11-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 32

  France will ban smoking on all beaches, in public parks, forests and some other public areas as part of a national anti-tobacco plan presented by...

• Bill would require study of mental, academic effects of cellphone use on students in classrooms

  28-11-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 39

  Senate lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have drawn up legislation requiring the U.S. Department of Education to complete a study on the effects...

• Stephen Colbert's 'The Late Show' pulled until next week as host recovers from surgery

  28-11-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 25

  First this fall, another round with COVID-19 shuttered Stephen Colbert's "The Late Show." Now the show is again sidelined as the host recovers from...

• University of North Carolina shooting suspect found unfit for trial, sent to mental health facility

  28-11-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 22

  The University of North Carolina graduate student charged with fatally shooting his faculty adviser has been found unfit for trial after two mental...

• Idaho to Supreme Court: Feds are trying to use emergency rooms as 'federal enclave' for abortions

  28-11-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 32

  Idaho asked the Supreme Court Monday to step in and let it enforce its pro-life law -- enacted after the high court's ruling last year ending a...

• Trump says GOP cannot give up on repealing Obamacare

  27-11-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 20

  Democrats are pouncing on former President Donald Trump's pledge to find alternatives to Obamacare, a repeal-and-replace mantra that proved costly...