Icon of remaining active and productive at age 75+ steps down from the bench
CNN – Courtroom reality show "Judge Judy" is coming to an end after 25 years, CNN has confirmed.
"I've had a 25-year-long marriage with CBS, and it's been successful. Next year will be our 25th season, silver anniversary," the iconic star said.
According to the 77-year-old host, the network made the decision to utilize repeats of the program.
Although court will soon be adjourned,...
CNN's coronavirus coverage criticized: ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome strikes again’ |
Fox News – As coronavirus concerns sweep the nation and make news across the globe, liberal CNN is being criticized for placing blame for its spread on President Trump and politicizing the alarming illness.
CNN’s website on Friday declared in its top story that Trump is hoping for a “miracle to make virus disappear” and called Trump’s comments “divorced from the gravity of the coronavirus situation,...
Feb 27, 2020
FORBES – Search engine giant Google is intensely focusing its efforts and heavily investing in the health-tech space.
More than 500 people now work at Google Health as its parent company Alphabet tries to improve search results that consumers see when they consult “Dr. Google”.
The tech giant is counting on new businesses as growth slows in its core digital advertising revenues.
A bet on health tech could prove very lucrative for...
UNHEALTHY OBSESSION:
They went to Alaska for adventure. They found starvation, frostbite, and death.
'Into the Wild' lures the unprepared to Alaska wilderness |
Anchorage (AP) — For nearly a quarter-century, the old bus abandoned in Alaska's punishing wilderness has drawn adventurers seeking to retrace the steps of a young idealist who met a tragic death in the derelict vehicle.
For many, Christopher McCandless' legend was cemented in the 1996 "Into the Wild" book and later in...
Sex ed mandate passes House committee
Feb 27, 2020
The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA – By one vote, a House committee on Thursday approved a bill to require public school districts in the state of Washington to teach comprehensive sexual health education to K-12 students beginning with the 2022-23 school year.
SB 5395 would be phased in over two years, with the topic taught to students in grades six through 12 beginning with the 2021-2022 school year and...
"A regional crossroads, Iran also appears to be a primary source of the infections that have spread to neighbors."
Patients include Iranian vice president who served as spokesperson for Islamic kidnappers in the 444-day Iran hostage crisis of 1979
Feb 27, 2020
New York Times – A senior figure in Iran’s government, who sits just a few seats away from President Hassan Rouhani at cabinet meetings, has fallen ill with coronavirus, making her Iran’s seventh official to...
Feb 27, 2020
Kaiser Health News – Just weeks into the federal government’s efforts to contain the novel coronavirus, a new California case has exposed weaknesses in the testing procedures that could be masking more widespread reach of the disease.
A woman in Solano County, California, who hadn’t traveled abroad or had contact with another known patient with the illness was diagnosed with the virus Wednesday, raising concerns that cases are going undetected because of the federal government’s...
"He just revealed how ignorant he is about the situation." – Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel on Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus
Ex-Obama health adviser calls Trump comments on coronavirus response 'incoherent'
Feb 27, 2020
The Hill – Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a former health policy adviser in the Obama administration, said late Wednesday that he found President Trump's remarks during a news conference on his administration's response to the coronavirus outbreak a "little incoherent."
Speaking on MSNBC's "Hardball," Emanuel, now...
Mayo Clinic expert offers insight on COVID-19 |
Feb 27, 2020
Mayo Clinic News Network – COVID-19, which was first detected in Wuhan City in China, has now been identified in 37 countries, including the U.S.
U.S. cases of COVID-19 have been limited so far. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has now confirmed the first possible U.S. case of "community spread," meaning the patient didn't travel anywhere known to have the virus and wasn't exposed to anyone...
“First of all, what we’re doing is immoral. I know that’s not a phrase they often use in politics, but it’s immoral. Look what he’s doing right — look what this president’s doing right now. Look what people have done before. They’re going to fingerprint food stamp recipients.” — Former vice president Joe Biden, Feb. 20, 2020
Say it ain't so, Joe!
Biden calls Trump 'immoral' – when he really meant to attack his fellow Democrat
Feb. 27,...
"When the coronavirus arrived in Italy, it also arrived in the heart of global Catholicism." – The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 27, 2020
Sick Pope Francis skips planned mass as Italy grapples with coronavirus
PLUS: Democrats Pan Trump’s Choice of ‘Pray on It’ Pence to Manage Virus Response
Feb 27, 2020
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is sick and skipped a planned Mass with Rome clergy across town on Thursday, officials said.
The Vatican said the 83-year-old pontiff had a...
The CDC has now called "for Americans to be prepared for added new urgency to response efforts." – AP
Desperate to stop virus' spread, countries limit travel, warn public
NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials in the U.S. warned Tuesday that the fast-spreading coronavirus is certain to reach the country at some point, even as their counterparts in Europe and Asia scrambled to contain new outbreaks of the illness.
"It's not so much a question of if...
"Deceptive, untrue, or fraudulent representations" alleged against Florida doctors.
Complaints say doctors caught writing bogus prescriptions for unneeded medical marijuana |
Feb 18, 2020
News Service Of Florida – State health officials have filed complaints against two medical-marijuana doctors based on information obtained by undercover investigators posing as patients, in what one physician’s lawyers described as a “trap.”
Both complaints, filed on the same day by the Department of Health last year, are awaiting action by administrative law...
PLUS: Florida’s race to stop the spread of new coronavirus
Feb 18, 2020
Miami Herald – While there are no confirmed cases of novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, in Florida, state health officials say they can’t disclose how many people have been tested for the virus.
“The goal of this public health response is containment,” said state Surgeon General Scott Rivkees, who presented to the Senate Health Policy committee Tuesday. “And if there’s a confirmed case, it will absolutely...