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The decrease comes after a late summer coronavirus wave, but experts warn more could be ahead.New COVID-19 hospitalizations have declined for the third week in a row following the late summer increase of coronavirus in the U.S. Last week saw more than 18,100 new COVID-19 hospital admissions – a 6% decrease from the week prior – according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While it's clear that the late summer increase of COVID-19 has passed its peak, health officials warn that the months ahead are likely to bring another wave. According to CDC’s respiratory disease outlook,...

Britain’s AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $425 million to settle about 11,000 lawsuits in the United States that claimed its heartburn drugs Nexium and Prilosec caused chronic kidney disease. AstraZeneca did not admit wrongdoing under the settlement, part of broader litigation against makers of a class of heartburn drugs called proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). “Today’s settlements are a significant victory for the thousands of patients who suffered kidney injuries as a result of using” the drugs, the plaintiffs’ attorney Chris Seeger said in a statement. A single lawsuit is still scheduled to go to trial in April in Louisiana, according...

As the Detroit Free Press reports, Williams shared stories from the group’s 61-year history. With the latter-day Temptations and Four Tops back in the city where both groups were born, for a double bill show at Detroit’s Fox Theatre tonight (6), the Tempts’ surviving co-founder Otis Williams paid a visit to the Motown Museum yesterday. Shop the best of the Temptations’ discography on vinyl and more. As the Detroit Free Press reports, Williams shared stories from the group’s 61-year history, imparting his wisdom to an audience including 13 aspiring artists from the museum’s Hitsville Next programs. The event was hosted...

Years of budget cuts and staffing shortages have left the New York City Department of Health too hobbled to contain a sharp rise in local cases of tuberculosis, according to a bombshell new report. “TB is the top killer of people worldwide among infectious diseases,” Dr. Bruce Hirsch, infectious disease specialist at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., told The Post. And there have been about 500 active cases of TB in NYC so far in 2023. That’s an increase of about 20% over the same time last year, according to “internal preliminary data” reported by Politico, making 2023...

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Attorneys who’ve been defending MyPillow chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies are seeking court permission to quit, saying he owes them unspecified millions of dollars and can’t pay the millions more that he’ll owe in legal expenses going forward. Attorney Andrew Parker wrote in documents filed in federal court on Thursday that his firm and a second firm representing MyPillow in lawsuits by Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems can’t afford what it would cost to represent Lindell and MyPillow through the rest of the litigation. Continuing to defend him would put the...

Some people may experience "long colds," or long-term symptoms following common colds, flu, pneumonia or other respiratory illnesses, similar to the pattern seen in long COVID, according to a new study from Queen Mary University of London. Published in The Lancet's EClinicalMedicine journal Friday, researchers found that even people with acute respiratory infections who tested negative for COVID-19 could still experience long-term symptoms at least 4 weeks after infection, including coughing, stomach pain and diarrhea. Those with long COVID were more likely to report ongoing problems with sense of taste or smell, lightheadedness or dizziness. While researchers did not measure...

At a time when registered nurses are going on strike to protest staffing shortages, thousands of applicants who want to enter or advance in the profession are being turned away from nursing schools. Nearly 78,200 qualified applications were not offered spots at nursing schools last year, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, which represents schools with baccalaureate and advanced degree programs. This includes nearly 66,300 applications for entry-level bachelor’s degree programs. The number of applications turned away from baccalaureate programs has been higher in recent years than it was prior to 2019. (One person may submit applications...

— A startling study reports that many state medical boards are doing a "dangerously lax job"The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen recently published a reportopens in a new tab or window that ranked states by their rate of serious disciplinary actions from 2019 to 2021, as reported by the federal National Practitioner Data Bank. In this video, healthcare marketing consultant Ron Harman King, JD, MS, discusses the analysis. Following is a transcript of his remarks: Among the recent healthcare news headlines is a startling report by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizenopens in a new tab or window that state...

Sweden’s prime minister on Thursday said that he’s summoned the head of the military to discuss how the armed forces can help police deal with an unprecedented crime wave that has shocked the country with almost daily shootings and bombings. Getting the military involved in crime-fighting would be a highly unusual step for Sweden, underscoring the severity of the gang violence that has claimed a dozen lives across the country this month, including teenagers and innocent bystanders. The Brilliant Way To Pay Off $10,000 In Credit Card Debt

It’s the latest blow to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government and its efforts to compel Google and Meta Platforms Inc. to negotiate payments with local publishers under the Online News Act, due to come into effect on Dec. 19. Google’s move comes about a month after Meta similarly dismissed the regulations and said that it will continue blocking users in Canada from seeing news on Facebook and Instagram to avoid running afoul of the law. Google already threatened to remove links to news, and tested blocking such content for a small percentage of users in Canada earlier this year. On...

Iraq will ban the US dollar from the start of next year as the global movement against the greenback gathers pace, one of the country's top financial policymakers told Reuters. People won't be able to withdraw cash in dollars or use the greenback in transactions from January 1, 2024, Iraqi central bank director-general of investment and remittances Mazen Ahmed said in an interview with the outlet.

CDC Director Mandy Cohen visited Roxbury on Wednesday to encourage people to get the updated COVID vaccine for fall 2023. Cohen toured the Whittier Street Health Center, which she said is helping to make sure the vaccine gets to Black and Latino communities. When the updated COVID vaccine became available to the public last month, some said the process was a "nightmare." Vaccine appointments were initially scarce and some people were getting charged nearly $200 for the shot. Cohen said there is a change to the distribution process this year. "We know in past years the federal government purchased all...

Ineligibles and The Aftermath Several weeks ago, True the Vote published a short paper titled The Aftermath. Written as part of a broader collection of our recent work in Georgia, The Aftermath addressed the impact Georgia’s dirty voter rolls had on the 2020 election and a meeting I had in 2020 with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his team, where we discussed True the Vote’s plans to assist Georgia citizens in challenging ineligible voter records. The Lawsuit Our efforts were immediately met with a lawsuit filed against us by attorney Marc Elias on behalf of Stacey Abrams’ organization Fair...

It's the end of an era for a once-critical pandemic document: The ubiquitous white COVID-19 vaccination cards are being phased out. Now that COVID-19 vaccines are not being distributed by the federal government, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stopped printing new cards. The federal government shipped more than 980 million cards between late 2020, when the first vaccines came out, through May 10, according to the latest available data from the CDC. Federal and local health officials don't expect the discontinuation of the cards to be a particularly big change, since the days of keeping them...

President Joe Biden blamed the press when asked Friday why Americans think the economy is dire, telling a group of White House reporters 'you all are not the happiest people in the world.' He then used a bizarre analogy about a dog being pushed in a lake to make his point about negative news coverage. Biden was delivering remarks about the September jobs report - in which 336,000 jobs were added to the economy, far exceeding economists' expectations - leading to a reporter to ask why, if the numbers were so sunny, most people still don't feel positive about the...

General Motors (GM) has agreed to place battery manufacturing for electric vehicles (EVs) under its main agreement with the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, UAW President Shawn Fain announced on Friday. Fain said the union won’t expand its strike against the Big Three automakers following the the last-minute development in negotiations. “We’ve been told for months that this is impossible,” Fain said. “We’ve been told the EV future must be a race to the bottom. And now we’ve called their bluff.” GM’s commitment to use UAW workers for EV battery manufacturing is a massive victory for the union.

Hunter Biden withdrew his daughter's college savings to help fund a months-long drug and hooker binge – and still hasn't paid the taxes on it, documents unearthed exclusively by DailyMail.com reveal. The First Son's profligacy was cast in sharp relief in papers from an IRS whistleblower who investigated him for tax crimes, released by Congress last month. In late 2018 Hunter was in his 'penultimate odyssey through full blown addiction', according to his memoir, skulking in Connecticut motels and frittering away thousands on prostitutes and crack cocaine.

As Ozempic and similar weight loss drugs become more popular, Americans might start buying less food, particularly high-calorie snacks and fast food. Why it matters: That could radically reshape the food industry, and investors and food industry executives are starting to pay attention. Ozempic is approved by the FDA to treat diabetes but is also prescribed for off-label use by doctors for obesity. Driving the news: Earlier this week, Walmart's U.S. CEO told Bloomberg that customers taking Ozempic buy less food. (Walmart mined its own pharmacy and grocery data to pinpoint customer buying patterns, per Bloomberg.) "We definitely do see...

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