Remembering 9/11: Acts of Kindness and Losing My Shoes
The emotional scars of Sept. 11 are still there, but so is the memory of a simple act of kindness.
The emotional scars of Sept. 11 are still there, but so is the memory of a simple act of kindness.
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday put off a long-anticipated ruling on whether Juul Labs and other major e-cigarette companies could continue to sell their products in the United States. The companies are at the center of a review of the vaping industry that the agency has been conducting for the past year. The…
Spurred by persistently high Covid case numbers and only modest vaccination rates, the Biden administration announced Thursday a new effort to combat the pandemic. It intends to mandate that workers at large companies get vaccinated, or submit to regular testing. The rule applies to tens of millions of Americans, about two-thirds of the country’s work…
“They were the ones calling for it,” said Andrew Wehrman, an associate professor of history at Central Michigan University who studies the politics of medicine in the colonial and revolutionary eras. “There’s no record that I have seen — and I’ve looked — of any soldier turning it down, protesting it.” Buoyed by the success…
Coronavirus infections are more than ten times higher than they need to be in order to end the pandemic, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease doctor, told the political news site Axios. There are currently roughly 150,000 new infections a day in the United States. “That’s not even modestly good control,” Dr.…
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The Biden administration on Thursday endorsed an aggressive proposal to limit prices for prescription drugs, a signal to congressional Democrats as they consider options for their large legislative package. The proposal was published as a 29-page white paper from the Department of Health and Human Services. It included a range of recommendations to foster more…
“It’s a very emotional thing for some families, whether or not they want it on the death certificate,” Dr. Gill said. “It shouldn’t be. It’s a public health matter.” In spring 2020, Dr. Gill said, he became concerned that Connecticut was overlooking Covid-19 deaths, especially among nursing home residents whose complicated medical histories can sometimes…
Desde el principio de la pandemia, los médicos han descubierto que la gente que experimenta casos graves de COVID-19 a menudo tiene problemas renales y no solo el daño pulmonar característico de esta enfermedad. Ahora, un estudio muy grande señala que, después de que los pacientes se recuperan de la infección inicial, los problemas renales…
WASHINGTON — Top federal health officials have told the White House to scale back a plan to offer coronavirus booster shots to the general public this month, saying that regulators need more time to collect and review all the necessary data, according to people familiar with the discussion. Dr. Janet Woodcock, the acting commissioner of…