Cuba has a lung cancer vaccine. Many U.S. patients can’t get it without breaking the law

Sun, 08/25/2019 - 17:08

usatoday.com - George Keays, a Colorado patient, is shown at La Pradera International Health Clinic in Havana. George Keays is not a rogue kind of a man. A Colorado real estate agent and grandfather…

Category: Science

NHS staff force bosses to climb down over 'backdoor privatisation' plans

Sun, 08/25/2019 - 14:29

inews.co.uk - Some of the lowest paid staff at an NHS trust in Bradford have forced health bosses into a climb-down after they voted to go on indefinite strike in protest against “back door…

Category: Business

Ben Powell: 'More government in medicine' would make health care 'even worse,' look at Venezuela

Sun, 08/25/2019 - 10:54

foxnews.com - Socialized medicine in the United States would make health care worse in terms of both quality and availability, according to economist and author Benjamin Powell. Socialized medicine…

Category: World

State Must Pay for Gender Reassignment Surgery for Inmate Convicted of Abusing Minor: Court

Sun, 08/25/2019 - 09:56

theepochtimes.com - Idaho must pay for an inmate’s gender reassignment surgery, a federal court ruled on Aug. 23. Mason Dean Edmo, 31, was convicted of sexually abusing a child under 16 years old,…

The US won't provide flu vaccines to migrant families at border detention camps

Sun, 08/25/2019 - 01:03

cnbc.com - The U.S. won't be vaccinating migrant families in holding centers ahead of this year's flu season, despite calls from doctors to boost efforts to fight the infection that's killed at least…

Category: Health

'Malaria will not be eradicated in near future', warns WHO

Sat, 08/24/2019 - 19:49

theguardian.com - Malaria will not be eradicated in the foreseeable future even though it is achievable and would save millions of lives, according to World Health Organization (WHO) experts…

Category: Science

Kashmir Dispatch 11 | People are Dying, Claim Doctors as Valley Runs Out of Lifesaving Medicines amid Lockdown

Sat, 08/24/2019 - 18:44

news18.com - Srinagar: With the prescription of his diabetic mother placed carefully in a handbag, Sajid Ali went to over a dozen pharmacies in the Valley on Tuesday in the hope of finding the…

Category: World

78% Gender Confused College Students May Have Mental Health Issues, Study Shows

Sat, 08/24/2019 - 17:40

neonnettle.com - 78 percent of college students who suffer from gender confusion issues meet the criteria for at least one mental health problem, accords to an expansive new study. This figure…

Category: Science

How children became the target in a rightwing culture war over gender

Sat, 08/24/2019 - 17:01

theguardian.com - Evie is like many 14-year-old girls. After school she likes to hang out with her friends, or go home and watch Netflix. She says she would like to focus on her studies, but almost…

'Australia is a bigger cage': the ongoing trauma of Nauru's child refugees

Sat, 08/24/2019 - 17:00

theguardian.com - “I don’t live in a tent anymore. Now, I live in a house made of concrete walls instead of plastic,” says 21-year-old Diba*. “I don’t have to take two-minute showers under the guard’…

Category: Technology