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SEATTLE — Cannabis regulators have halted operations at a number of outside pot farms and processing amenities on a stretch of former fruit orchards in north-central Washington state after testing discovered excessive ranges of chemical substances associated to a harmful pesticide used a long time in the past. ...

BEIJING — Chinese well being officers defended their seek for the supply of the COVID-19 virus and lashed out Saturday on the World Health Organization after its chief stated Beijing ought to have shared genetic info earlier. The WHO feedback had been “offensive and disrespectful,” stated the director of t...

SPOKANE, Wash. — A federal decide in Washington state on Friday ordered U.S. authorities to not make any adjustments that may limit entry to the abortion remedy mifepristone in 17 Democratic-led states that sued over the difficulty, countering a ruling by a decide in Texas on the identical day that ordered a maintain on federal approval of the drug. ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — So this moose walks into an medical constructing… While that may very well be a setup to a nasty joke, it really occurred in Anchorage on Thursday. ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s Medicaid program will proceed to pay Walgreens about $1.5 billion annually regardless of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom declaring final month the state was finished doing enterprise with the pharmacy large after it indicated it might not promote abortion drugs by mail in some states. ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — Abortion opponents pushed a invoice by way of the Kansas Legislature early Friday to require suppliers to inform sufferers {that a} remedy abortion might be “reversed” as soon as it’s began - a measure that would face a state court docket problem if its supporters can overcome the governor’s anticipated veto. ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — Republican legislators in Kansas accredited a plan early Friday to finish gender transition take care of transgender youth, capping per week of intensifying efforts to rolling again LGBTQ rights like different states with GOP-controlled legislatures. The Kansas House voted 70-52 to cross a i...

A drug-resistant pressure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a micro organism linked to contaminated eyedrops, has been discovered to unfold from individual to individual, in line with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The pressure has been tied to a few eye care merchandise produced by Global Pharma...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president requested his Chinese counterpart for assist Tuesday in halting chemical compounds from China utilized by Mexican drug sellers to illegally produce fentanyl, whereas additionally complaining of “rude” U.S. stress to curb the drug commerce. President Andrés Manuel López Obra...

The District is attempting to battle town’s opioid overdose epidemic by meting out Narcan at merchandising machines. A pilot program is placing Narcan, a nasal spray of the overdose-stopping medicine naloxone, in 4 merchandising machines within the metropolis. Another two merchandising machines can be adde...