Health

NEW YORK — The United States has seen 5 instances of malaria unfold by mosquitos within the final two months - the primary time there’s been native unfold in 20 years. ...

SEATTLE (AP) — On some days, Anthony Jones can’t get to work. Since he was a teen, the 41-year-old Seattle resident has typically struggled with lup...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The variety of completely different digital cigarette units offered within the U.S. has almost tripled to over 9,000 since 2020, pushed virtually fully by a wave of unauthorized disposable vapes from China, in line with tightly managed gross sales knowledge obtained by The Associated Press. ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — A brand new Kansas regulation requires the state to reverse any earlier gender modifications in its data for trans folks’s delivery certificates and driver’s licenses whereas additionally stopping such modifications going ahead, the state’s conservative Republican lawyer basic declared Monday. ...

AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine House voted Monday in favor of a invoice to make sure 16- and 17-year-olds can obtain gender-affirming hormone remedy with out parental consent if sure circumstances are met. ...

The union organizing Starbucks employees stated Monday {that a} strike timed to Pride month closed 21 shops over the weekend, together with the corporate’s flagship Reserve Roastery in Seattle. ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia is finalizing the management for a newly created basis tasked with distributing the lion’s share of the greater than $1 billion in opioid lawsuit-settlement cash coming to the state with the nation’s highest overdose demise fee. ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra mentioned Monday that HHS must go “on the offensive” relating to homosexual and transgender points. ...

The phrase “salumi” (or its singular, “salume”) appears to be popping up extra on restaurant menus, Instagram feeds, even at some deli counters. Maybe you‘ve been questioning what precisely salumi means, versus salami, or charcuterie, or….? ...

A senior House Republican says a brand new report on attainable hyperlinks between the coronavirus outbreak and the virology lab in Wuhan, China, is inadequate and he desires the Biden administration to launch underlying intelligence as a substitute of topline findings. ...