Health Care

A Virginia legislator with Parkinson’s disease is playing a key role in establishing a committee to combat the condition.

The House of Representatives, in a gesture of support for a fellow member battling Parkinson’s disease, postponed the final vote of the year on a bill that aims to eventually eradicate the debilitating condition. The legislation is titled after Jennifer Wexton, a Democratic representative from Virginia who suffers from the illness, and the late brother

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US authorities have prevented Elf Bar-maker and other companies from bringing in 1.4 million illegal e-cigarettes through customs.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. agents recently seized more than 1.4 million illegal e-cigarettes from overseas manufacturers, including the Chinese company behind Elf Bar, a line of fruity disposable vapes that has become the top brand among American teens, officials said Thursday. According to the Food and Drug Administration, the e-cigarettes that were seized at Los

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An additional 230,000 RSV vaccinations are being sent after pressure from the Biden administration.

This image from an electron microscope displays human lung cells releasing blue-colored RSV virions and yellow-colored anti-RSV F protein/gold antibodies. On Thursday, the White House declared that it had reached an agreement with pharmaceutical companies to produce an additional 230,000 doses of the respiratory syncytial virus vaccine for infants by January. This comes in response

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