A group of Democratic attorneys general scored a minor victory this month against Uncle Sam and religious small business owners. In a split decision, a 9th Circuit panel ruled that those attorneys’ states have standing to sue the Trump administration for providing a religious exemption to the Obama administration’s mandate requiring nearly all employers cover… Read More »
Modern life can get quite hectic and a healthy diet with a regular workout routine becomes a luxury rather than a requirement. In fact, we can consider ourselves lucky if we even grab an opportunity to spend a few hours with our friends and loved ones. This is the time when extra centimeters around your… Read More »
Editorial pages focus on these and other health care issues. Bloomberg: Genetic Engineering Can Make Humans Different, But Not Better For such flawed creatures, human beings are surprisingly hard to improve, at least through our genes. That’s one reason there’s so much outcry over the recent claim that researchers in China altered the genes of… Read More »
The Food and Drug Administration just announced a recall of Valsartan, a potentially life-saving blood pressure medication, after the discovery of a cancer-causing contaminant found in some batches. This is the third recall for this type of medication in 2018. Teva Pharmaceuticals has recalled amlodipine/Valsartan and amlodipine/Valsartan/hydrochlorothiazide combination tablets, medications that are commonly used to… Read More »
Advances in medicine have made it possible for a person living with HIV to have an undetectable viral load with traditional blood testing methods. If HIV is undetectable over an extended period, it is also untransmittable. An undetectable viral load is when a person has so little of the virus in their blood that a… Read More »