Washington Times - Health

• French court to deliver verdict in landmark child sex abuse case involving 299 victims

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  A French court will deliver its verdict Wednesday in one of the country's largest-ever child sex abuse cases, which has raised questions about how...

• Court watchers say ban on medical treatment for transgender youth is most impactful case of term

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  Supreme Court watchers are most eagerly awaiting the justices' decision on whether a state can ban medical treatment for transgender youth, saying...

• RFK Jr.: COVID vaccines are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women

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  Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that COVID-19 vaccines are no longer the recommended action for healthy...

• Amid measles outbreak, Texas is poised to make vaccine exemptions for kids easier

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  Texas this year has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in more than two decades, as a mostly eradicated disease has sickened...

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• Kennedy says COVID vaccines no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women

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  U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday announced that COVID-19 vaccines are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant...

• Bill legalizing assisted suicide passes lower house of French parliament

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  France's lower house of parliament has adopted a bill to allow adults with incurable illness to take lethal medication.

• Japan to use radioactive soil from Fukushima on flowerbeds outside PM's office

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  Japan said on Tuesday it plans to use some of the soil removed from near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on flower beds outside Prime...

• Young women outpace male counterparts in binge drinking, study finds

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  Young women are now binge drinking at higher rates than young men, according to a new study from the Journal of the American Medical Association.

• A new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed over 170 people in a week, officials say

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  A new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 172 people and sickened more than 2,500 over the past week, authorities said Tuesday as a leading...

• This runner was bothered by blizzard of disposable cups at races. She invented something better

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  Kristina Smithe was running the California International Marathon in 2019, grabbing cups of water to stay hydrated, when she started to think about...

• France's National Assembly to vote on long-debated bill legalizing end-of-life options

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  France's lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, is voting Tuesday on a bill to allow adults with incurable illness to take lethal...

• A family digs through trash for bits of food, showing Gaza's growing desperation

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  With flies buzzing all around them, the woman and her daughter picked through the pile of garbage bags for scraps of food at the foot of a...