The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has banned two hazardous chemicals commonly used in dry cleaning and automotive industries. The chemicals trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene have been found linked to serious health risks such as liver and kidney cancers, as well as damage to the nervous and immune s...
A recent Gallup poll reveals that 62% of Americans believe it is the government’s duty to ensure that everyone has healthcare coverage. That marks the highest support in over a decade. This comes amid heightened scrutiny of the for-profit health system, especially after the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Support among Re...
A U.S. House committee, dominated by Republicans, has concluded that COVID-19 likely originated from a laboratory mishap. The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, after a detailed two-year investigation involving more than a million documents, believes the virus emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, partly funded by the U.S. ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Palestinian and international doctors called Tuesday for the opening of a humanitarian corridor from the Gaza Strip to enable the urgent evacuation of 25,000 patients to hospitals in East Jerusalem as Israel’s ongoing genocide has rendered most of the enclave’s medical facilities non-operational. The call came during a p...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump has chosen pandemic lockdown critic Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation’s leading medical research agency. “Dr. Bhattacharya will work in cooperation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the Nation’s Medical Research, and to make important discove...
California health authorities have issued an urgent recall for raw milk from the company Raw Farm after detecting the bird flu virus in batches sold across the state. The affected product, with a “best by” date of Nov. 27, 2024, was identified shortly after the first U.S. case of a child contracting the virus. The […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump nominated renowned Turkish-American cardiac surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz on Tuesday as the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In a statement, Trump described Dr. Oz as a “world-class communicator” and “eminent physician” who will spea...
Republicans are considering cuts to Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to offset the cost of extending tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. As the GOP prepares to take control of Congress, there are discussions about introducing strict work requirements and spending caps on these programs. The proposed...
Sudan is grappling with a devastating cholera outbreak, which has killed 699 people and infected more than 24,000. The disease has spread to 11 of the country’s 18 states, with some regions like Al-Jazeera and White Nile witnessing an uptick in cases. The outbreak has been made worse by the ongoing civil war between the […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The first case of a severe strain of mpox has been confirmed in California, with the virus discovered in a person who arrived from an east African country, ABC News reported on Sunday, citing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The public risk remains low as the person was treated […]
