Tag: healthcare
Nurses Protest Tennessee Sentence for Deadly Medical Mistake
(AP) Hundreds of health care workers gathered outside a Nashville courthouse on Friday to protest the sentencing of a former Tennessee nurse facing up...
FDA Restricts J&J’s COVID-19 Vaccine Due to Blood Clot Risk
(AP) U.S. regulators on Thursday strictly limited who can receive Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine due to the ongoing risk of rare but serious...
Bill Gates Calls for Global Health Surveillance Force
(John McCann, Headline USA) Globalist Microsoft founder Bill Gates called on the world’s wealthy nations to come together and allow the World Health Organization to oversee a special health surveillance...
Fauci: ‘Pandemic Phase’ Over for US, But COVID-19 Still Here
(AP) Dr. Anthony Fauci has given an upbeat assessment of the current state of the coronavirus in the United States, saying the country is...
Masks Forever as New York Moves to ‘Medium’ Risk COVID Status
(John Ransom, Headline USA) The New York City Health Commissioner is saying that the city will be moving its COVID status from “low risk” to...
Never-Ending Costs: When Resolved Medical Bills Keep Popping Up
(Kaiser Health News) Every now and then, Suzanne Rybak and her husband, Jim, receive pieces of mail addressed to their deceased son, Jameson. Typically,...
Nursing Home Care, Funding System Need Overhaul, Report says
(AP) Nursing home residents are subjected to ineffective care and poor staffing, while facility finances are shrouded in secrecy and regulatory lapses go unenforced,...
Medicare Enrollees to Get Free COVID-19 Tests at Drug Stores
(AP) Amid worries that the latest coronavirus variant could spark another rise in cases, Medicare announced Monday that millions of enrollees will finally have...
Number of COVID Patients in US Hospitals Reaches Record Low
(AP) COVID-19 hospitalization numbers have plunged to their lowest levels since the early days of the pandemic, offering a much needed break to health...
FDA OKs Another Pfizer, Moderna COVID Booster for 50 and Up
(Associated Press) U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized another COVID-19 booster for people age 50 and older, a step to offer extra protection for the...
