Government & Policy
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday proposed replacing Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu with former vice prime minister Andrei Belousov, according to an official post by the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, on Telegram. Shoigu was appointed to lead the Kremlin’s security council, Russian state media reported, citing spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. The announcement comes…
The most recent dominant variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are sometimes referred to as 'FLiRT' variants. They remind us that the virus is still around and some people are still suffering, despite the fact that the majority of the country and the federal government have moved past the pandemic.
For the second year in a row, fewer medical students are applying to residency programs in states with near-total abortion bans. A new data snapshot from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), released Thursday, shows that students in their senior year in a doctorate of medicine program have applied to fewer residency programs.
Thaer Ahmad, a Palestinian American doctor, said he left a meeting at the White House Tuesday evening because he was unhappy about President Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza. Ahmad, an emergency medicine doctor who worked in Gaza in January, said he attended a stakeholder meeting at the White House, which was arranged in…
People who use e-cigarettes are 19 percent more likely to develop heart failure, compared to those who have never used them, a new study published Tuesday revealed. The data point was included in one of the largest prospective studies to date on the link between vaping and heart failure. The findings of the study are…
The White House has missed the deadline to publish a rule banning menthol cigarettes, angering public health advocates who fear that the policy will be indefinitely postponed due to election year politics. In an attempt to compel the administration to act, three anti-tobacco public health groups sued the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday.
A judge in a federal district court has given the last go-ahead to a multi-billion-dollar settlement between public water providers impacted by persistent chemicals and the company 3M, as announced by the parties on Monday. Under the conditions of the deal, the chemical maker based in Minnesota will give these water suppliers from $10.5 billion to $12.5 billion, based on how much contamination there is and…
President Biden chastised what he called an “extreme” Florida Supreme Court ruling upholding the state’s 15-week abortion ban and triggering an even more restrictive policy. “Yesterday’s extreme decision puts desperately needed medical care even further out of reach for millions of women in Florida and across the South,” Biden said Tuesday in a statement. “The…
Seven aid workers with the World Central Kitchen were killed Monday in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, according to the nongovernmental organization. The workers were leaving a warehouse in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, and driving in a “deconflicted zone” in two armored cars when the strike hit, the World Central Kitchen (WCK) said. The…
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