Several dozen activists who reject the robust science supporting vaccinations held a march and rally Friday in a day of demonstrations that’s scheduled to include an afternoon speech from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A vast body of scientific research shows that vaccines do not cause autism and are essential in preventing the spread of potentially fatal infectious diseases.
A major global partnership aimed at fighting superbugs announced Thursday that it is investing up to $48 million in research projects, including potentially the first new classes of antibiotics in decades, to target the deadliest drug-resistant bacteria.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation announced that the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System (SLVHCS) and CrescentCare are Louisiana's leaders in LGBTQ Health Care Equality. Both are located in New Orleans.
Officials announced in February that Mecklenburg County's public health clinics failed to tell nearly 200 women about abnormal Pap smears, they blamed the lapse on one nurse. No evidence has emerged suggesting recent errors by the agency in handling Pap smears extends beyond two health clinics.
A serial killer known as the "Angel of Death" after he admitted killing three dozen hospital patients in Ohio and Kentucky during the 1970s and '80s was beaten in his cell and is in critical condition, state authorities said Wednesday. He was a nurses' aide at the time of the killings.
Behavioral therapies were significantly better than drugs for improving cancer-related fatigue during and after treatment, and should be prescribed as first-line treatments, according to a meta-analysis.