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The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved women’s access to the abortion drug mifepristone, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues.
Read article →Louisiana had sued the FDA in a bid to curtail the regulatory agency’s rules on prescribing mifepristone remotely Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The US supreme court upheld nationwide access to mail-order mifepristone, an abortion medication, in a shadow-docket decision on Thursday. Louisiana sued the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in October in a bid to curtail the regulatory agency’s rules on prescribing mifepristone remotely, arguing that it interfered with the sta
Read article →Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and UT Health Houston have successfully detected all known cancer-causing viruses simultaneously in Texas wastewater, marking a first in public health surveillance. The study, published in *Applied and Environmental Microbiology*, demonstrates that wastewater monitoring can reliably track the presence and concentration of oncogenic viruses at the community level. The findings open the door to early public health interventions before these viruses translate into rising cancer rates.
Read article →Researchers say risk comes from ‘other factors, including genetic predisposition to mental health conditions’ Taking antidepressants during pregnancy does not increase the risk of children going on to develop autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to an analysis of more than half a million pregnancies. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Hong Kong and published in the Lancet Psychiatry, analysed data from 37 existing studies that included 600,00
Read article →Nearly half of American women say the cost of health care worries them more than the prospect of serious illness itself, according to a new Cleveland Clinic report. The finding exposes a troubling inversion of priorities driven by financial pressure rather than medical risk. As health care costs continue to climb, the data signals a growing barrier that may push women to delay or avoid care altogether.
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