Annapolis, Md.: Maryland officials are preparing for as many as 80,000 residents who could no longer qualify for Medicaid coverage this spring, as the federal government reinstates a requirement that existed before the COVID pandemic for states to verify the eligibility of recipients. Michele Eberle, the executive director of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, said that...
New York: U.S. health officials have said a company is recalling its over-the-counter eye drops that have been linked to an outbreak of drug-resistant infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has sent a health alert to doctors, saying the outbreak included at least 55 people in 12 states. One died and at least five...
Sacramento, Calif.: Children in California won’t have to get the coronavirus vaccine to attend schools, state public health officials have confirmed, ending one of the last major restrictions of the pandemic in the nation’s most populous state. Gov. Gavin Newsom first announced the policy in 2021, saying it would eventually apply to all of California’s 6.7 million public...
Washington: A cyberattack caused a nearly daylong outage of the nation’s new 988 mental health helpline late last year, federal officials said. “On December 1, the voice calling functionality of the 988 Lifeline was rendered unavailable as a result of a cybersecurity incident,” Danielle Bennett, a spokeswoman for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, said in...
New York: U.S. agriculture officials have proposed new nutrition standards for school meals, including the first limits on added sugars, with a focus on sweetened foods such as cereals, yogurt, flavored milk and breakfast pastries. The plan announced by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack also seeks to significantly decrease sodium in the meals served to the nation’s school...
By Atul Vyas A pain or soreness occurring in around the coccyx - which are the three to five vertebrae at the base of the spine that are often referred to the tailbone. Such pain can vary from general discomfort to bouts of sudden sharp or nagging pain. This is called coccygeal pain, and this condition...
As Hindus living in the United States of America, we have the unique privilege of living simultaneously in two different paradigms, consciously or not. The American or Western paradigm more generally can be called ‘progressivism’, where every generation is continually standing on the shoulders of the previous one, where science and technology are marching relentlessly...
By Preeti Dahiya The never ending quest of an Autism mother to find something that helps her child to express herself in some form or the other led me to explore art therapy for my daughter about three months ago. Before I tell you how it goes, let me tell you that prior to this, we have...
Nashville, Tenn.: Top Tennessee health officials attempted to oust Planned Parenthood from a program designed to prevent and treat HIV before eventually deciding to forgo federal funding for the program, despite warnings that doing so will have a devastating impact on marginalized communities, documents show. Republican leaders, however, have actively tried to cut off public ties...
