Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, detailed his change of heart on abortion laws on Tuesday after GOP members of the committee pointed out his past desire to overturn Roe v. Wade. At the committee’s hearing on legal concerns in a post-Roe America, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) submitted a copy of a letter Durbin wrote […]
The available treatments for eosinophilic asthma come with a wide range of side effect risks. Areteia Therapeutics is developing an oral therapy designed to match the blockbuster biologic drugs that treat this severe form asthma, but with a potentially better safety profile. On Tuesday, the new company unveiled its approach along with up to $350 million in financial commitments to […]
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned the constitutional right to abortion as well as the federal standards of abortion access, established by prior decisions in the cases Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Prior to the Dobbs ruling, the federal standard was that abortions were […]
Amazon will collaborate with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle on an FDA-approved clinical trial for a cancer vaccine. According to a filing with National Institutes of Health, Fred Hutch is testing a “personalized” vaccine for patients with late-stage melanoma skin cancer and certain breast cancers that have spread throughout the body or are not responding to other treatment. […]
Harrison County Community Hospital in Bethany, Mo., is planning to build a replacement facility in Bethany, according to the website kttn.com. The $62 million project will replace the existing aging hospital and will measure 83,000 square feet. Completion is scheduled for spring 2025.
As a parent, there are tons of newfound feelings the moment your baby is born into the world. There is joy, happiness and excitement for the future. At the same time, so begins the string of important decisions you as the parent will have to make for your child’s health. One of the first medical decisions that must be made […]
On June 24, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion and jeopardizing abortion access in more than 20 states. Hours after the ruling, state governments and legislatures began implementing abortion trigger bans to outlaw the procedure while pro-abortion rights clinics and activists started suing state governments to block the bans. The result has been […]
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade has led to new questions about privacy protections for health information about an individual’s use of reproductive services such as abortion. Employer plans that cover these services, and that are now adding a travel benefit for employees to access this care, might create a paper trail of claims information or reimbursement […]
Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday that a new omicron subvariant on the rise is something to take seriously but should not be a cause for panic. The subvariant, known as BA.5, is now the majority of COVID-19 cases in the United States. It is even more highly transmissible than earlier variants of the virus, and has an increased ability […]
BY KIM BELLARD I saw a great quote by Alfred North Whitehead the other day: “It is the business of the future to be dangerous.” Now, I was a math major many years ago, so I know who Alfred North Whitehead was: the coauthor (with Bertrand Russell) of the Principia Mathematica, a landmark, three-volume treatise that proved – in excruciating […]