Health
Teva lied about opioid role, New York says
New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press conference at the Office of the Attorney General in New York on May 9, 2022, to make an announcement about protecting access to abortion. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images New York’s attorney general on Monday said Teva Pharmaceutical Industries lied to evade […]
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Pregnant Texas woman says unborn baby should count as car passenger after receiving HOV ticket
Emilija Manevska | Moment | Getty Images A pregnant Texas woman said her unborn baby should count as a second passenger in her vehicle after she received a ticket, citing Texas’ penal code in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s being overturned. Brandy Bottone, 32, of Plano, was pulled over June 29 after she drove […]
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U.S. scientists are enrolling nearly 40,000 patients in 4-year $1.2 billion study of long Covid
A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 test at testing site in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The National Institutes of Health is rolling out one of the largest studies in the world to understand long Covid in a high-stakes effort to find definitive […]
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Beijing city walks back plan to tighten Covid vaccine requirements — after just one day
Beijing city toned down a plan to require Covid vaccinations to enter some public venues, and maintained that a negative virus test was sufficient. Pictured here is a virus testing site in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, July 5, 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s first large-scale attempt to require Covid vaccinations […]
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Theranos ex-COO Sunny Balwani found guilty in all 12 fraud charges 6 months after founder Holmes’ conviction
SAN JOSE, Calif. – In the final chapter of the Theranos saga, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the company’s former chief operating officer and ex-boyfriend of founder Elizabeth Holmes, was found guilty of all 12 criminal fraud charges. Balwani had no reaction as the verdict was read at the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California and […]
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Beijing city tightens Covid vaccine requirements as cases grow nationwide
Chinese cities like Beijing, pictured here on July 6, 2022, require negative virus tests from within the last 72 hours in order to enter most public spaces. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s capital city is set to require Covid vaccinations for entering gyms and some other venues, the […]
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Lesions, headaches, debilitating pain: Gay men with monkeypox share their stories
Computer generated image of multiple monkeypox viruses. Uma Shankar Sharma | Moment | Getty Images Even as Covid-19 restrictions have loosened, for many gay men, an uninvited guest called monkeypox has threatened to spoil long-anticipated festivities. Of the 6,924 confirmed monkeypox cases in the global outbreak, the vast majority have occurred among gay, bisexual and other men […]
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We’re taking some profits in a health winner but still see stock as right for this market
We’re making another trim in a stock that’s about $10 per share higher than our sale last week. Source
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This woman died because of an abortion ban. Americans fear they could be next.
After the Supreme Court’s historic decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, some doctors are highlighting the 2012 death of a pregnant woman in Ireland and warning that the same thing could happen on a large scale in the United States. Dr. Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old Indian-born dentist, died in 2012 in Galway, on Ireland’s west coast, […]
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Three stock market themes to play in the third quarter
The health care sector is often a sleepy performer but in this market turmoil it may prove to be one of the areas of not only safety in the third quarter — but growth. The third quarter could be a turbulent time, after the worst first half for stocks since 1970. As investors fear rampant […]
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