Health

How good a job is the Food and Drug Administration doing in its crackdown on kid-friendly digital cigarette flavors? The Associated Press sought to reply that query by taking a look at tightly managed gross sales knowledge. ...

LONDON — Britain was ill-prepared for a pandemic partly as a result of authorities sources had been diverted away from pandemic planning to brace for a presumably chaotic exit from the European Union with out a deal, the U.Okay.’s former well being secretary instructed an inquiry Tuesday. ...

MADRID — Deaths in Spain from warmth stroke and dehydration within the hottest months of 2022 - the most popular yr on file - jumped by 88% in comparison with the identical interval in 2021, the National Statistics Institute stated Tuesday. ...

The demise toll has risen to 6 in an outbreak of fungal meningitis that’s tied to surgical procedures in a metropolis alongside the U.S.-Mexico border, and well being officers say they haven't been capable of attain everybody who could also be liable to an infection. ...

The Biden administration has dropped an investigation into whether or not Louisiana officers put Black residents residing in an industrial stretch of the state at elevated most cancers danger, regardless of discovering preliminary proof of racial discrimination, in line with a federal court docket submitting Tuesday. ...

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco might turn into the primary metropolis within the nation to require each pharmacy inside its boundaries to all the time carry naloxone, a drug that reverses overdoses brought on by fentanyl and different opioids. ...

AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Senate voted to develop abortion entry Tuesday following an emotional debate, advancing a proposal that might give the state one of many least restrictive abortion legal guidelines within the nation. ...

WASHINGTON — More than $200 billion might have been stolen from two giant COVID-19 reduction initiatives, based on new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded applications that helped small companies survive the worst public well being disaster in additional than 100 years. ...

Scientists have created embryo fashions to assist research the mysteries of early human improvement, the medical issues that occur earlier than beginning and why many pregnancies fail. ...

MANCHESTER, England — English soccer membership Watford has apologized to the victims of a former physiotherapist nicknamed “Paedo Phil” after concluding an investigation into his alleged abuse. ...