President Donald Trump said Tuesday that pharmaceutical imports will soon be hit with 'major' tariffs as part of his efforts to drive manufacturing back to the U.S. Drug imports evaded the first round of tariffs that Trump imposed on countries around the world, but the president said they will not be spared.
Five nurses working in the same unit at a Boston-area hospital have been diagnosed with non-cancerous brain tumors, prompting them and their labor union to search for answers while the medical facility contends it has ruled out an environmental risk for workers there.
According to a statement that Mass General Brigham’s Newton-Wellesley hospital provided to NBC10 Boston, the five nurses either work or have previously worked in the facility’s fifth-floor maternity unit.
The hospital said it interviewed 11 staff members who have worked at some point on that floor as part of an investigation into the nurses and the tumors. Of them, five were diagnosed with brain tumors, all of which were benign growths, while the other six were found to have other health concerns.
Severe, possibly life-threatening strep infections are rising in the United States. The number of invasive group A strep infections more than doubled from 2013 to 2022, according to a study from the CDC published Monday in the JAMA. Before that, rates of invasive strep had been stable for 17 years.
A patient was injured in a small fire at UPMC Hanover Monday night. According to a spokesperson from UPMC Hanover, a small fire occurred in a patient room at the hospital last night. The staff responded by extinguishing the fire and moving nearby patients to other units away from the blaze.
As of this month, five nurses working on the same floor Massachusetts General Brigham's Newton-Wellesley Hospital have been diagnosed with non-cancerous brain tumors, the hospital announced. MGB interviewed eleven staff members who worked on the fifth floor in connection with concerns brought up at a staff town hall last month, according to a memo released by the hospital.
Health officials across the nation are increasingly concerned that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sowing confusion about the effectiveness of the measles vaccine amid an outbreak that has left two unvaccinated children in Texas dead. On Sunday, in a post on X disclosing the latest death, Kennedy wrote that 'the most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine' marking his clearest endorsement of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to date.