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More Seniors Are Regular Weed Users
Latest Senior Health News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, June 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Add weed use to goofy jokes, outdated clothes, old music and other things Grandpa and Grandma enjoy that could potentially embarrass their kids and grandkids. Marijuana use has increased dramatically among seniors 65 and older in the…
Cucumber-Linked Salmonella Outbreak Sickens Dozens Across 18 States
Latest Infectious Disease News By I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, June 3, 2025 — A growing salmonella outbreak tied to cucumbers has made at least 45 people sick across 18 states, U.S. health officials have warned. The cucumbers came from Bedner Growers, a Florida-based company, and were distributed by Fresh Start Produce Sales,…
FDA Approves Tryptyr Eye Drops for Dry Eye Disease
By Stephanie Brown HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, June 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-in-class TRPM8 receptor agonist Tryptyr (acoltremon ophthalmic solution) for the treatment of signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. Currently, dry eye disease treatment options are limited due to slow therapeutic onset, patient dissatisfaction, and…
The Welfare Queen Is Back, but With a Video Game Console in Hand
Ronald Reagan and his fellow Republicans once invoked what they referred to as “welfare queens” as they made the case for reining in social spending in the 1970s and 1980s, painting a picture of unscrupulous women bilking the system to finance a sumptuous lifestyle. Now as they try to justify cuts to Medicaid, congressional Republicans…
Martha Mills doctor’s failings ‘particularly grave’
Philippa Roxby Health reporter Mills/Laity family photograph/PA Wire Martha Mills died from sepsis in a London hospital in 2021 The failings of a doctor responsible for Martha Mills’ care, who died from sepsis, amounted to “gross negligence” and were “particularly grave”, a medical tribunal says. Her death gave rise to Martha’s Rule in hundreds of…
RFK Jr fires entire US vaccine committee
US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a vaccine sceptic, has removed all 17 members of a committee that issues official government recommendations on immunisations. Announcing the move in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, Kennedy said that conflicts of interest on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Acip) were responsible for undermining trust…
MPs set to vote on decriminalising abortion in England and Wales
Women would no longer be prosecuted for terminating a pregnancy in England and Wales under a proposed shake-up of abortion laws. MPs are set to get a free vote next week – meaning they will not be told how to vote by their party – on a change to the law. It comes amid concern…
Cervical screening invites to change for younger women in England
Invitations for cervical screening will be sent out every five years instead of every three for women aged 25-49 in England, if they have a negative test. Research shows they are at very low risk of cervical cancer and can safely wait longer to be screened again, NHS England has said. The roll out of…
We quit our jobs, sold our home twice and spent 10 years fighting the NHS
James Melley and Alison Holt BBC News, Social Affairs Family handout Alice’s family say she had a big personality and a passion for art Warning: This article contains upsetting details and reference to suicide There didn’t seem to be anything out of the ordinary when Jane Figueiredo spoke to her daughter that night on the…