U.S. Supreme Court lets Flint, Michigan residents sue over water contamination
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday let residents of Flint, Michigan pursue a civil rights lawsuit against…
U.S. authorities confiscate migrant kids’ medications at the southern border
(Reuters Health) – Doctors on Long Island say two migrant children showed up at their hospital in seriously ill condition…
Scientists release sterile mosquitoes in Burkina to fight malaria
SOUROUKOUDINGA, Burkina Faso (Reuters) – Scientists in Burkina Faso have deployed a new weapon in the fight against malaria, and…
Transgender people in U.S. still face conversion therapy attempts
(Reuters Health) – One in seven transgender people in the U.S. has experienced an attempt by a professional counselor to…
Macron gambles on cultural shift with bill allowing IVF for lesbians
PARIS (Reuters) – The French government on Wednesday sent to parliament draft legislation that would allow in-vitro fertilization (IVF) for…
Many deadly common cancers get little charity funding
(Reuters Health) – Many of the most common and lethal cancers get the fewest research dollars from fundraising advocacy groups,…
Mother of French quadriplegic brings appeal to keep him alive to U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – The mother of a quadriplegic French man who has been in a vegetative state for more than…
Unproven stem cell therapies often peddled by doctors without training
At U.S. clinics advertising unproven stem cell treatments, roughly two-thirds of the clinicians may be physicians, but a new study…
Prosecutors drop Flint, Michigan water charges over ‘flawed’ probe
(Reuters) – Michigan prosecutors on Thursday dropped all criminal charges over the deadly contamination of the city of Flint’s water,…
U.S. states, cities sue to block Trump ‘conscience’ rule for healthcare workers
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two dozen U.S. states and municipalities sued the Trump administration on Tuesday to stop it from…
Your health app could be sharing your medical data
(Reuters Health) – That nifty new health app you downloaded to your phone to keep track of your meds might…
Patients often withhold relevant information from doctors
(Reuters Health) – – Patients commonly hold back information from doctors that could help in their healthcare, which could influence…
Racial disparities seen in U.S. heart rhythm treatment
(Reuters Health) – Black patients in the U.S. with atrial fibrillation – an irregular heart rhythm – are less likely…
China orders halt to gene-editing after outcry over babies
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The Chinese government on Thursday ordered a temporary halt to research activities for people involved in the…
Doctors may not explain pros, cons of lung cancer screening
(Reuters) – Many U.S. doctors don’t discuss the harms of lung cancer screening or the potential for overdiagnosis in conversations…
Experts outline ethics issues with use of genealogy DNA to solve crimes
(Reuters Health) – With recent revelations that U.S. law enforcement can – and already has – dipped into consumer genealogy…
Medical studies in humans often launched on faulty evidence base
(Reuters Health) – New research reveals serious flaws in the animal studies that regulators and ethicists use to decide if…