Guns Marketed for Personal Safety Fuel Public Health Crisis in Black Communities
PHILADELPHIA — Leon Harris, 35, is intimately familiar with the devastation guns can inflict. Robbers…
Guns Marketed for Personal Safety Fuel Public Health Crisis in Black Communities
PHILADELPHIA — Leon Harris, 35, is intimately familiar with the devastation guns can inflict. Robbers shot him in the back nearly two decades ago, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. The bullet remains lodged in his spine. “When you get shot,” he said, “you stop thinking about the future.” He is anchored by his…
Inside the FDA’s Vaccine Uproar
Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that covid vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,” 12 former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary warning in the Dec. 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. They wrote that the claims and policy changes in the…
Las armas promovidas para la seguridad personal provocan una crisis de salud pública en comunidades negras
PHILADELPHIA — Leon Harris, de 35 años, conoce por experiencia personal la devastación que puede causar un arma. Hace casi dos décadas, unos ladrones le dispararon por la espalda, dejándolo paralizado del pecho hacia abajo. La bala aún permanece alojada en su columna. “Cuando te disparan, dejas de pensar en el futuro”, dijo. Su esposa,…
Oregon Hospital Races To Build a Tsunami Shelter as FEMA Fights To Cut Its Funding
ASTORIA, Ore. — Residents of this small coastal city in the Pacific Northwest know what to do when there’s a tsunami warning: Flee to higher ground. For those in or near Columbia Memorial, the city’s only hospital, there will soon be a different plan: Shelter in place. The hospital is building a new facility next…
In the Vast Expanses of Indian Country, Broadband Gaps Create Health Gaps, Too
FORT HALL RESERVATION, Idaho — Standing atop Ferry Butte, Frances Goli scanned the more than half a million acres of Shoshone-Bannock tribal land below as she dug her hands into the pockets of a pink pullover. The April wind was chilly at one of the tribes’ highest vistas in remote southeastern Idaho. “Our goal is…
Ontario hospitals warn of massive spike in ICU admissions for influenza
The Ontario Hospital Association issued a statement Tuesday, saying there was an alarming increase in cases, which have now hit a three-year high.
Ontario influenza ICU admissions up 127% in past week, hospital association warns
Ontario hospitals saw a 127 per cent spike in intensive care unit admissions stemming from influenza in just a week, the Ontario Hospital Association says.
Disability Rights Lawyers Threatened With Budget Cuts, Reassignments
The Trump administration is trying to slash access to lawyers who defend the rights of Americans with disabilities, advocates say. Most of the lawyers work either for the Department of Justice or for disability rights agencies that Congress set up in every state decades ago. Many of the Justice Department lawyers quit in 2025 after…
One Big Beautiful Bill Act Complicates State Health Care Affordability Efforts
As Congress debates whether to extend the temporary federal subsidies that have helped millions of Americans buy health coverage, a crucial underlying reality is sometimes overlooked: Those subsidies are merely a band-aid covering the often unaffordable cost of health care. California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and five other states have set caps on health care spending in…
3 kids die from influenza A-related complications since start of December in Ontario
Three children in Ontario have died from influenza A-related complications since the start of December, health officials said Monday.
