Category: Health Care

State governments are seeking ways to safeguard health data used in the ongoing controversy surrounding abortion.
Health Care

State governments are seeking ways to safeguard health data used in the ongoing controversy surrounding abortion.

Certain state governments and federal regulatory bodies were already taking steps to protect the confidentiality of people’s reproductive health information. However, a recent report from a U.S. senator revealed that cellphone location data was utilized to send millions of anti-abortion advertisements to individuals who had visited Planned Parenthood facilities. It is against federal law for

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The FDA has broadened the scope of Xolair, a medication used for asthma, to now include treatment for severe food allergies.
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The FDA has broadened the scope of Xolair, a medication used for asthma, to now include treatment for severe food allergies.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday that a medication typically prescribed for asthma can now be utilized to assist individuals with food allergies in preventing severe reactions. The medication omalizumab, sold under the brand name Xolair, was granted approval to decrease allergic responses triggered by accidental ingestion of food. People as young

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Health workers in Brazil are searching through junkyards and on rooftops to find mosquitos in order to combat the dengue outbreak.
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Health workers in Brazil are searching through junkyards and on rooftops to find mosquitos in order to combat the dengue outbreak.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The small team of state public health workers slalomed between auto parts strewn across a Rio de Janeiro junkyard, looking for standing water where mosquitoes might have laid their eggs. These were initiatives across the country aimed at controlling the increase of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness, during Brazil’s peak

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Fourteen states, led by the GOP, have rejected federal funding to provide meals for underprivileged children during the summer. Here's the reason why.
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Fourteen states, led by the GOP, have rejected federal funding to provide meals for underprivileged children during the summer. Here’s the reason why.

Families with children of school age who have lower incomes may receive assistance from the national government to cover their grocery expenses during the summer, except if they reside in any of the 14 states that have declined to participate in the program this year. The rejections are based on various reasons, all coming from

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A study conducted in the United States has discovered that a higher number of fatalities occur from smoking drugs rather than injecting them.
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A study conducted in the United States has discovered that a higher number of fatalities occur from smoking drugs rather than injecting them.

According to a recent study by the government, smoking has overtaken injecting as the most prevalent method of drug use in cases of overdose in the United States. The study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday is considered the largest investigation into how Americans consumed the drugs that ultimately caused

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Iowa's abortion providers have received guidance on how to handle the temporarily halted 6-week ban, in case it is ultimately upheld.
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Iowa’s abortion providers have received guidance on how to handle the temporarily halted 6-week ban, in case it is ultimately upheld.

The Iowa Supreme Court recently approved guidelines for abortion providers in response to the state’s ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The strict abortion law is temporarily suspended while Governor Kim Reynolds appeals the lower court’s decision to halt its main components. However, the medical board has been told to proceed with creating

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