The Food and Drug Administration is considering drug therapy to combat teen vaping, but doctors, parents and teens themselves are pressing the FDA to make it more difficult for young people to get vaping products.
Ebola infections have slowed inside the initial center of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s outbreak, but the disease is marching south toward major cites, opening a critical new stage in the epidemic that’s already the second worst on record.
Here are excerpts from recent editorials in Oklahoma newspapers:
Republican legislative leaders said Tuesday they will compromise with new Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and tweak a bill guaranteeing health insurance coverage for pre-existing conditions to prohibit annual and lifetime limits as they attempt to defuse potential criticism on the 2020 campaign trail.
When it comes to their views on climate change, Americans are looking at natural disasters and their local weather, according to a new poll.
Kentucky State Police have canceled an Amber alert after a 10-year-old Trigg County boy was found safe.
A big jump in prescription drug sales, particularly overseas, helped Johnson & Johnson swing to a large fourth-quarter profit after posting a huge loss a year earlier, when it took a $13.6 billion charge related to the late-2017 U.S. tax overhaul.
The Latest on the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (all times local):
Global health officials say they have identified two cases of polio in Mozambique caused by a mutated virus in the vaccine, marking another setback for attempts to eradicate the crippling disease.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is laying out her strategy on health care and first up is improvements to "Obamacare" and legislation to lower prescription drug costs. "Medicare for all" will get hearings.
Two doctors who cared for an incapacitated woman who gave birth as a result of a sexual assault are no longer providing medical services at the long-term care center in Phoenix.
North Dakota's Republican-led Legislature reopened the abortion debate Monday following a six-year pause despite critics saying the state is setting itself up for another round of expensive legal fights over legislation they describe as misleading and unconstitutional.
All five of Arkansas medical marijuana cultivation facilities are now under construction.
A man in charge of transportation at a southwestern Michigan school district has died while shoveling snow.
Chinese authorities appear to have confirmed a scientist's unpublished claim that he helped make the world's first gene-edited babies and that a second pregnancy is underway, and say he could face consequences for his work.
Health officials now say they have 22 confirmed measles cases in Clark County since the start of the year.
Michigan regulators are expanding an investigation into air pollution produced by a medical-device manufacturer, and the results could be factored into a cancer study.
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Omaha World Herald. January 18, 2019
A North Carolina county is trying to limit the number of feral cats that live there by sponsoring a mobile spay/neuter clinic.
