If you’d asked me, when our baby was born in November, how likely it was that I’d decide to delay his vaccinations against the doctor’s recommendations for several months, I’d have told you there was absolutely no chance. I report on global health; I know that the diseases vaccination has virtually eradicated in the US…
The Judicial Crisis Network is launching an attack ad on presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden and his supporters over the Tara Reade sex assault allegations. The conservative group normally focused on supporting President Trump’s judicial picks is spending six figures on a digital ad hitting Democrats who support the former vice president. The…
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NEW YORK -- The medical director of the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in New York City, who treated patients infected with the novel coronavirus, died by suicide this week.According to police in Charlottesville, Virginia, Dr. Lorna Breen died Sunday.Her father, Dr. Philip C. Breen, told the New York Times that the 49-year-old had…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Australia is leading the drive for international action into a formal probe of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its questionable handling of the spread of coronavirus, officially termed COVID-19.Last week, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that the country…
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…