Health

• Walgreens workers plan to walk out on job for three days next week

  8-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 46

  Workers at Walgreens pharmacies nationwide are planning to walk out on the job on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to protest their working conditions.

• Pharmacist shortages and heavy workloads challenge drugstores heading into their busy season

  7-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 47

  A dose of patience may come in handy at the pharmacy counter this fall.

• U.S. Senate leader raises trade and fentanyl at start of 1st congressional visit to China since 2019

  7-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 42

  A senior American lawmaker, leading the first congressional trip to China in four years, said Saturday that the U.S. does not want to cut economic...

• Judge OKs Oklahoma's ban on sex-change surgeries, drugs for children

  7-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 56

  A federal judge in Tulsa declined to stop a new law from taking effect that makes it a felony crime for health care workers in Oklahoma to provide...

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• Arkansas health officials identify first locally acquired case of malaria in decades

  7-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 51

  Arkansas Department of Health officials have identified a case of locally acquired malaria, the first such case of the mosquito-borne disease in...

• Rep. Scalise says cancer treatment going 'phenomenally' well

  7-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 39

  House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a top contender for the next House speaker, says his doctors are very encouraged with the progress of his...

• Physician burnout accelerated since COVID-19, study finds

  7-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 44

  Massachusetts doctors are experiencing burnout at higher rates since COVID-19 overwhelmed their medical practices and hospitals, new research has...

• Stricter state laws are chipping away at sex education in K-12 schools

  7-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 38

  A dozen state or county agencies have parted ways with tens of thousands of dollars in federal grants meant to help monitor teenagers' sexual...

• Doctor who treated Morgan State shooting victim is gunshot survivor himself

  6-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 70

  When Johns Hopkins trauma surgeon Dr. Joseph Sakran was notified about a shooting with multiple victims on the campus of Morgan State University...

• Health care strike over staff shortages, wages heads into final day with no deal in sight

  6-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 69

  A massive health care strike over wages and staffing shortages headed into its final day on Friday without a deal between industry giant Kaiser...

• U.S. Customs officials seize giraffe feces from woman at Minnesota airport

  6-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 80

  Federal customs agents pooh-poohed the plans of an Iowa woman who wanted to make jewelry from giraffe feces she picked up on a trip to Kenya and...

• Justice Dept. comes under pressure to charge activist in attack on pro-life pregnancy center

  6-10-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 53

  The recent conviction of a New York woman for vandalizing a pro-life pregnancy center has Attorney General Merrick Garland coming under pressure to...