Health

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

  4-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 58

  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 47

  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 50

  California has repealed a misinformation law that restricted the advice doctors could give patients about COVID-19, bowing to mounting legal pressure.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 33

  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 35

  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 49

  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 39

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

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

  2-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 43

  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...

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

  2-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 70

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

• Pakistan officials consider a new way to boost polio vaccination: prison

  1-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 55

  Authorities in one Pakistan province are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison.

• Transgender minors in Nebraska, their families and doctors brace for a new law limiting treatment

  1-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 66

  As Nebraska's new law restricting gender-affirming care for minors goes into effect this weekend, families with transgender children and the...

• Mississippi sees spike in child care enrollment after abortion ban and child support policy change

  30-9-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 66

  Mississippi has seen a consistent rise in the number of families accepting public assistance for child care since lawmakers banned abortion in...