Health

• Literacy experts urge parents to read with kids to make up for COVID losses

  25-9-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 62

  Literacy experts say it's time for parents to get kids reading again as they catch up from two years of pandemic-related learning losses.

• Film legend Sophia Loren has successful surgery after fracturing a leg in a fall at home, agent says

  25-9-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 62

  Film legend Sophia Loren is recovering from successful surgery for a leg fracture after she fell in her Switzerland home, an agent for the...

• California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bills to enhance the state's protections for LGBTQ+ people

  25-9-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 90

  California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several bills Saturday aimed at bolstering the state's protections for LGBTQ+ people, a day after issuing a...

• Government should pay compensation for secretive Cold War-era testing, St. Louis victims say

  24-9-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 46

  Ben Phillips' childhood memories include basketball games with friends, and neighbors gathering in the summer shade at their St. Louis housing...

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• Science paints a new picture of the ancient past, when we mixed and mated with other kinds of humans

  24-9-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 51

  What does it mean to be human?

• Biden has gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and the annual flu shot, the White House says

  24-9-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 31

  President Joe Biden has gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and annual flu shot, the White House said Saturday.

• Many states are expanding their Medicaid programs to provide dental care to their poorest residents

  23-9-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 56

  For months, Carlton Clemons endured crippling pain from a rotting wisdom tooth. He couldn't sleep, barely ate and relied on painkillers to get by.

• Nikki Haley's approach to abortion is rooted in her earliest days in South Carolina politics

  23-9-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 30

  As a state representative running a longshot campaign for South Carolina governor, Nikki Haley would often explain her opposition to abortion with...

• Pro-life ad featuring Biden to run during Ohio State-Notre Dame game

  23-9-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 33

  A pro-life ad against an Ohio abortion-rights ballot measure features an unlikely advocate: President Biden.

• Biden gives gun-control lobby what it wants: a new federal office dedicated to stopping gun violence

  23-9-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 35

  President Biden on Friday created a new federal office of gun violence prevention to coordinate efforts across the government to curb gun crimes.

• Supreme Court to take up guns -- possibly abortion, diversity -- in 2023 term

  23-9-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 30

  The conservative-leaning Supreme Court spent the past two years rewriting jurisprudence on guns, race and abortion.

• Brazil's top court opens vote on decriminalizing abortion up to 12th week of pregnancy

  23-9-2023 Health Washington Times - Health 62

  Brazil's top court opened a session Friday that will decide whether abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy will be decriminalized nationwide.