BREAKING: Trans prisoners' medical care remains protected after a flurry of court rulings on Wednesday.
A D.C. Circuit ruling would have allowed the Trump admin's anti-trans policy to go into effect, but a new district court injunction issued hours later blocked the policy yet again.
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Even as the world is racing to contain the deadly Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Trump administration is moving ahead with a plan that could decimate support for programs that detect and snuff out exactly such outbreaks.
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A D.C. Circuit ruling would have allowed the Trump admin's anti-trans policy to go into effect, but a new district court injunction issued hours later blocked the policy yet again.
“If we don't stop the outbreak very soon, it will be worse than what we had in West Africa and eastern DRC”
– Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya
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Politicians are giving corporations tax breaks and those corporations are turning around and contributing to the politicians' campaigns.
How is this not corruption at the highest level?
HPV jabs cut risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 to almost zero
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Critics of moving special education out of the Department of Education and into HHS say the shift could reverse decades of progress and impact millions of students.
GSK’s “bepi” performs better than expected in efficacy trials, but its global impact is likely limited
A Vietnamese man with cardiovascular problems collapsed and died in the “Speedway Slammer,” the repurposed Indiana maximum-security prison that’s become a symbol of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. In a Pennsylvania detention center, a Chinese man who had previously attempted suicide was found hanging in the shower. In a New York facility, a Honduran man with an elevated heart rate and tremors from alcohol withdrawal died in his cell with no emergency care.
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The death toll of the outbreak, centered in the DR Congo, is nearing 200.
Study reveals positive news, but experts say deaths and cases may rise again as fewer teenagers get vaccinated
Women who received an HPV vaccine in early adolescence have virtually zero risk of dying from cervical cancer before the age of 30, according to a groundbreaking study, but falling vaccination rates could see a rise in avoidable deaths.
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women, according to the World Health Organization, and high-risk human papillomaviruses (HPV) cause 99% of cases. About 3,300 women in England are diagnosed with the disease every year. Continue reading...
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Moving special education services and civil rights enforcement to other federal agencies has left families wondering what's next.