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FILE - A sign for monkeypox vaccinations is shown at a vaccination site, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in Miami Beach, Fla. British health officials say the monkeypox outbreak across the country "shows signs of slowing" but that it's still too soon to know if the decline will be maintained. In a statement on Monday, Aug.

EU regulator OKs plan to increase monkeypox vaccine supplies

August 19, 2022, 1:29pm Health

A smaller dose of the monkeypox vaccine appears to still be effective and can be used to stretch the current supply by five times, the European Medicines Agency said Friday, echoing a recommendation made earlier this month by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Read story

The Elkhorn River, just west of Omaha, Neb., is pictured on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022.

CDC confirms Nebraska child died of brain-eating amoeba

August 19, 2022, 10:42am Health

Federal health officials confirmed Friday that a Nebraska child died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a river near Omaha. Read story

FILE - The healthcare.gov website is seen, on Dec. 14, 2021 in Fort Washington, Md. Millions of people in the United States will be spared from big increases in health care costs next year after President Joe Biden signed legislation extending generous subsidies for those who buy plans through federal and state marketplaces.

Biden bill to help millions escape higher health care costs

August 19, 2022, 7:50am Health

Millions of people in the United States will be spared from big increases in health care costs next year after President Joe Biden signed legislation extending generous subsidies for those who buy plans through federal and state marketplaces. Read story

FILE - A demonstrator holds a placard reading "Scammer, thief, killer, Pfizer" during a protest against the vaccine pass and vaccinations to protect against COVID-19 in front of the Pfizer headquarters, in Paris, on Jan. 29, 2022. An anti-vaccine group that has harassed doctors and public officials in Italy and France is still active on platforms like Facebook despite efforts to rein in their abuse and misinformation. The organization, known as V--V, bombards its victims with dozens, hundreds or even thousands of abusive posts.

Anti-vax group in Europe thrives online, thwarts tech effort

August 19, 2022, 7:38am Health

Troubled by the number of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients showing up at his hospital, the French doctor logged on to Facebook and uploaded a video urging people to get vaccinated. Read story

Washington isn’t as healthy as you thought. Obesity rates rise in 33 counties, study finds

August 19, 2022, 6:05am Health

A recent study found that people in 33 out of the 39 Washington counties have become more overweight over the last 10 years, according to BarBend, an online strength training resource and fitness news outlet. Read story

FDA targets illegal nicotine gummies in new warning letter

August 18, 2022, 11:25am Health

Federal regulators on Thursday issued a first-of-a-kind warning to the maker of nicotine gummies, saying the illegal candies pose a growing risk to teenagers and younger children. Read story

FILE - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization talks to the media regarding the coronavirus COVID-19 at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. In an emotional statement at a press briefing on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022 WHO Director-General -- who is an Ethnic Tigrayan -- said the situation in his home country of Ethiopia, where 6 million people in Tigray have essentially been cut from the world, is worse than any other humanitarian crisis in the world.

WHO chief: Lack of help for Tigray crisis due to skin color

August 17, 2022, 4:50pm Health

The head of the World Health Organization described the ongoing crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region as “the worst disaster on Earth” and wondered aloud Wednesday if the reason global leaders have not responded was due to “the color of the skin of the people in Tigray.” Read story

FILE - People march through 8th Street in downtown Boise, Idaho, on May 3, 2022, in response to the news that the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. On Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, a federal judge said the Idaho Legislature can intervene in the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit targeting Idaho's total abortion ban, but only to present evidence about emergency abortions performed in Medicaid-funded emergency rooms. (Sarah A.

Medical groups, 20 states weigh in on Idaho abortion lawsuit

August 17, 2022, 1:35pm Health

A legal battle over abortion rights pitting one of the reddest states in the nation against the U.S. government has dozens of states and major medical associations seeking to weigh in. Read story

An employee walks near an entrance to Western State Hospital in Lakewood in 2020. A judge has ordered the state agency that operates Washington's largest psychiatric hospital to pay more than $2 million to four female health workers who were assaulted by a violent patient who repeatedly targeted women. (AP Photo/Ted S.

Washington pays $2M to workers assaulted at psychiatric hospital

August 16, 2022, 10:12am Health

A judge has ordered the state agency that operates Washington’s largest psychiatric hospital to pay more than $2 million to four female health workers who were assaulted by a violent patient who targeted women. Read story

COVID sewage surveillance labs join the hunt for monkeypox

August 16, 2022, 8:16am Health

The same wastewater surveillance techniques that have emerged as a critical tool in early detection of COVID-19 outbreaks are being adapted for use in monitoring the startling spread of monkeypox across the San Francisco Bay Area and some other U.S. communities. Read story