CIDRAP – Texas has reported 20 more measles cases in the past 5 days. The outbreak now stands at 561 cases, with 58 patients requiring hospitalization. The outbreak’s epicenter includes counties in West Texas that are home to a large unvaccinated Mennonite community.
Of the 561 cases, 381 are in children 17 years and younger.
In New Mexico, 5 more cases have been identified since last week, raising the state total to 63. New Mexico’s cases...
While you may not know these dyes by name, they can show up in your foods. Red No. 40, for example, can be found in salami, Yellow No. 6 in chicken bullion and Blue No. 1 in canned peas.
CITY JOURNAL – In his confirmation hearing as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argued that U.S. health-care spending represents a “20 percent tax on the entire economy.”
Rather than engage in a “divisive debate about who pays,” he suggested the nation ask, “Why are health-care costs so high in the first place?”
Kennedy offered his own answer: “chronic disease,” to which “90 percent of health-care spending” is devoted.
He specifically pointed to...
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Tampa Bay palliative care doctor is facing federal child porn production charges.
Dr. Stephen Leedy was pulled over and arrested on Dec. 19 by Holly Springs police officers in Georgia.
“I’m sorry. What’s going on?” Dr. Leedy is heard asking the officers in body worn camera video obtained by News Channel 8.
“Just put your hands behind your back,” an officer said.
Leedy told officers it was a case of “mistaken identity,” and...