A new rule narrows the legal definition of sex discrimination in the Affordable Care Act. Major health care providers actively oppose it.Advocates for the rights of transgender people rallied outside the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington last year.Credit...Michael Reynolds/EPA, via ShutterstockJune 13, 2020Updated 8:10 p.m. ETHealth advocates representing…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Free speech advocates are furious that YouTube removed a viral video of two California doctors questioning the threat level of the coronavirus.The doctors, Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi, have made the argument that the mortality rate of the coronavirus is similar…
Veteran advocates say they are frustrated at the lack of transparency around the Department of Veterans Affairs' use of the unproven drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus.After the release of a preliminary study of veterans hospitalized with Covid-19 this week that showed that hydroxychloroquine — a anti-malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump —…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…