Health

West Texans, Mennonites at center of measles outbreak choose medical freedom over vaccine mandates

SEMINOLE, Texas (AP) — Measles had struck this West Texas town, sickening dozens of children, but at the Community Church of Seminole, more than 350 worshippers gathered for a Sunday service.

Mar 4, 2025 12:37 PM Read more >

$Disrupting the Peace: On a B.C. ranch, fracking earthquakes rattle a way of life$

Disrupting the Peace: On a B.C. ranch, fracking earthquakes rattle a way of life

Bo Hedges' parents have lived on their ranch north of Fort St. John, B.C., for close to 50 years, running the Dead Horse Creek Cattle Company on the property where a natural spring bubbles up near their log home.

Mar 2, 2025 7:00 AM Read more >

Province spent more promoting cost-savings than advertising vaccines, documents show

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government has spent or budgeted more than $340,000 for advertising campaigns promoting its fuel tax and electricity savings — more than it spent last year on ads to persuade people to get vaccinated against the flu and COVID-

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Republicans once maligned Medicaid. Now some see a program too big to touch

WASHINGTON (AP) — Every time a baby is born in Louisiana, where Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson handily won reelection last year, there’s more than a 60% chance taxpayers will finance the birth through Medicaid . In Republican Rep.

Mar 2, 2025 5:27 AM Read more >

A child dies of Ebola in Uganda, raising concern over disease surveillance in outbreak

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A 4-year-old child became the second person to die of Ebola in Uganda, the World Health Organization said Saturday, in a setback for health officials who had hoped for a quick end to the outbreak that began at the end of Januar

Mar 1, 2025 3:18 PM Read more >

Renowned geneticist Francis Collins retires from NIH, urging 'respect' for embattled workers

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Francis Collins, a renowned geneticist and former longtime director of the National Institutes of Health, announced Saturday that he has retired, leaving an agency being upended by budget cuts and layoffs .

Mar 1, 2025 1:51 PM Read more >

Judge blocks Trump order threatening funding for institutions that offer care for transgender youth

SEATTLE (AP) — President Donald Trump’s plan to pull federal funding from institutions that provide gender-affirming care for transgender youth will remain blocked on a long-term basis under a federal judge's ruling in Seattle late Friday. U.S.

Mar 1, 2025 12:54 PM Read more >

USAID cuts are already hitting countries around the world. Here are 20 projects that have closed

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Countries around the world already are feeling the impact of the Trump administration's decision to eliminate more than 90% of foreign aid contracts and cut some $60 billion in funding.

Mar 1, 2025 8:18 AM Read more >

$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over

Arthur Johnson has lived in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward for nearly three decades, long enough to appreciate the trees that filter pollution from the big ships traveling the nearby Mississippi River and that offer shade on sweltering summer days.

Mar 1, 2025 6:36 AM Read more >

A new cookbook ties healthy eating to good sleep

Anyone who has ever suffered in bed after eating three slices of pizza could surmise there is some relationship between food and sleep quality.

Feb 28, 2025 10:11 PM Read more >