Cancer Physicians Attack High Drug Costs More than 100 cancer specialists have banded together to persuade pharmaceutical companies to bring prices down, suggesting that the high prices for medicine needed to keep someone alive is profiteering. More
Patients’ Genes Seen as Future of Cancer Care Major academic medical centers in New York and around the country are spending and recruiting heavily in what has become an arms race within the war on cancer. The investments are based on the belief that the medical establishment is moving toward the routine sequencing of every patient’s genome in the quest for “precision medicine,” a course for prevention and treatment based on the special, even unique characteristics of the patient’s genes. More
Even after melanoma, some people keep on using tanning beds You would think that people who were diagnosed with melanoma -- the most deadly form of skin cancer -- would be meticulously careful about using sunscreen, avoiding tanning salons and generally protecting their skin. More
Roger Ebert (1942-2013) Roger Ebert loved movies. Except for those he hated. For a film with a daring director, a talented cast, a captivating plot or, ideally, all three, there could be no better advocate than Roger Ebert, who passionately celebrated and promoted excellence in film while deflating the awful, the derivative, or the merely mediocre with an observant eye, a sharp wit and a depth of knowledge that delighted his millions of readers and viewers. More
Scientists find treatment to kill every kind of cancer tumor Researchers might have found the Holy Grail in the war against cancer, a miracle drug that has killed every kind of cancer tumor it has come in contact with, the New York Post reported. The drug works by blocking a protein called CD47 that is essentially a "do not eat" signal to the body's immune system, according to Science Magazine. More
Kennedy’s Vow to Take On Big Food Could Face Resistance Processed foods are in the cross hairs of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but battling major companies could collide with President-elect Donald J. Trump’s corporate-friendly goals. 11/15/2024 - 3:53 am | View Link
Trump transition recap: Donald Trump chooses Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS President-elect Donald Trump is still choosing his nominees for his second term in the White House − and making some surprising picks. 11/14/2024 - 7:36 pm | View Link
House Republicans applaud Trump's picking Kennedy to lead HHS -- with a few concerns House Republicans had mixed reactions to Trump's announcement that he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be HHS secretary. 11/14/2024 - 2:12 pm | View Link
What to Know About Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Long History of Promoting Anti-Vaccine Views Here Are the New Members of Trump’s Administration So Far. Kennedy has long advanced the debunked idea that vaccines cause autism. He has also pushed other conspiracy ... 11/14/2024 - 1:03 pm | View Link
RFK Jr. named as Trump’s health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been angling for a role in the Trump administration since he endorsed the president-elect in August. 11/14/2024 - 12:28 pm | View Link
Kara Kennedy, Daughter of Edward Kennedy, Is Dead at 51 Kara Kennedy, the daughter of Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, died Friday after a workout at a Washington-area health club. She was 51. The cause was a heart attack, according... 11/14/2024 - 6:26 am | View Link
Kara Kennedy dies at 51; oldest child of Sen. Edward Kennedy Kara Kennedy, the oldest child of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, died Friday at a Washington, D.C.-area health club after her daily workout, said her brother Patrick. She was 51. 11/13/2024 - 8:07 am | View Link
Kara Kennedy, daughter of Ted Kennedy, dies at 51 | The ... The eldest of the senator’s three children, Kara Kennedy died Friday at age 51, collapsing after her daily workout at a Washington health club. The cause of death wasn’t immediately released. 11/12/2024 - 10:06 pm | View Link
Kara Kennedy Obituary (2011) KENNEDY KARA ANNE KENNEDY On September 16, 2011, Kara Anne Kennedy, the daughter of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Joan Bennett Kennedy, and the devoted mother of Grace Allen,... 11/12/2024 - 9:20 am | View Link
Oldest child of late Sen. Ted Kennedy dies at 51 Kara Kennedy, the oldest child of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, died suddenly Friday evening at a Washington-area health club. Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy confirmed the death of his 51-year-old... 11/11/2024 - 9:21 am | View Link
Donald Trump’s nephew Fred Trump III doesn’t expect to be invited to his uncle’s inauguration this time around. He did, after all, write a book exposing some of the president-elect’s unsavory behavior, including the Donald telling Fred he should let his disabled son, William, die.
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But Fred Trump still plans to spend time down in Washington, DC, in the coming years to push for progress on disability issues.
Donald Trump has made it clear that there are groups he’d like to punish.
Much attention has been paid to his planned crusades for his next term against immigrants and trans people. But less discussed has been another group on the list: protesters. Building off the bipartisan crackdown on anti-war student dissent last year, Trump has made clear he hopes to discipline, and potentially prosecute, civil disobedience with increased force.
Last May, he promised a group of donors that “any student that protests, I [will] throw them out of the country.” Trump hoped this would serve as a warning.
Public health experts, physicians, and scientists responded with fury and disgust to the news that Donald Trump will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the secretary of Health and Human Services. If Kennedy—who has also promoted dangerous and ludicrous ideas about fluoride, 5G technology, and the causes of HIV/AIDS, among innumerable other pseudoscientific claims—assumes the position, “the damage he could do is near infinite,” warns Dr.
When the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law in 1938, first establishing a national minimum wage, it came with an exemption: employers could pay some disabled workers less than minimum wage. The federal exemption still stands, even as many states roll back their versions—and that wage can still be as little as 25 cents an hour.
25 states have since introduced or enacted legislation to phase out this outdated practice.
By COLLIN BINKLEY
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s vision for education revolves around a single goal: to rid America’s schools of perceived “ wokeness ” and “left-wing indoctrination.”
The president-elect wants to forbid classroom lessons on gender identity and structural racism. He wants to abolish diversity and inclusion offices. He wants to keep transgender athletes out of girls’ sports.
Throughout his campaign, the Republican depicted schools as a political battleground to be won back from the left.
By LISA MASCARO
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a resounding election victory, delivering what President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans said is a mandate to govern, an uneasy political question is emerging: Will there be any room for dissent in the U. S. Congress?
Trump is laying down a gauntlet even before taking office challenging the Senate, in particular, to dare defy him over the nominations of Matt Gaetz, Robert F.