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• Clinical Trial Upgrades Will Open Care Up to More People For nearly 80 years, clinical trials have formed the backbone of medicine advancing life-saving medications. And despite unquestionable successes, traditional trials still have an enrollment problem.
  WebMD Health News, May 26, 2022
• Oklahoma Gov. Signs Bill That Bans Nearly All Abortions The new law is the most restrictive abortion ban in the US. The only exceptions are a necessity to save the mother’s life or cases of rape/incest if they have been reported to police.
  WebMD Health News, May 26, 2022
• More Than 200 Monkeypox Cases Confirmed in 21 Countries On Wednesday, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control reported 219 confirmed cases worldwide, including nine in the US and 71 in the UK. Later that day, the UK reported seven more cases.
  WebMD Health News, May 26, 2022
• Study Explores Why Gyms Can Be COVID Hotspots A small study conducted in Germany takes a step toward quantifying the COVID risk of gyms and fitness clubs.
  WebMD Health News, May 26, 2022
• No Surprises Act Blocked 2 Million Medical Bills in 2 Months 'Health insurance providers applaud the Administration and Congress for taking this important step.'
  WebMD Health News, May 25, 2022
• With COVID, 2020 Was 'Lost Year' in Fight Against HIV Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was likely a "lost year" in the public health battle against the long-lasting HIV epidemic in the US, a public health official says.
  WebMD Health News, May 25, 2022
• FDA Allows Import of 2 Million Cans of Baby Formula From UK The FDA is easing rules to allow infant formula imports from the United Kingdom, which would bring about 2 million cans to the United States in coming weeks.
  WebMD Health News, May 25, 2022
• US Releasing Monkeypox Vaccine From National Stockpile 'Right now, we have over 1000 doses of that available. We expect that level to ramp up very quickly in the coming weeks as the company provides more doses to us,' said the CDC's Jennifer McQuiston.
  WebMD Health News, May 24, 2022
• Baby Formula Ingredient Deliveries Ordered to Speed Up The US Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued an order on Monday to speed up the delivery of baby formula ingredients to help with the formula shortage.
  WebMD Health News, May 24, 2022
• Better Biopsies? High-Speed 3D Cameras Could Be the Future Engineers at Columbia University have developed a 3D microscope powerful enough for clinicians to assess tissue health, offering a faster and cut-free approach to biopsies.
  WebMD Health News, May 24, 2022
• Pfizer Says COVID-19 Vaccine Response Robust in Young Children Much anticipated findings from Pfizer/BioNTech suggest three doses of COVID-19 vaccine protect kids ages 6 months to 5 years old.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• How Can the US Improve Access to Eyeglasses? Expanding insurance coverage for eye services and standardizing pediatric vision screening requirements across the US are two steps that could help begin to solve the problem, researchers say.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• Americans Try Many Things to Ease Chronic Back Pain The survey of 2000 US adults found that almost half of respondents (49%) are affected by pain at work, and 2 in 5 say that pain hampers their social lives.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• Monkeypox Quarantines Not Needed in US, Biden Says 'I just don’t think it rises to the level of the kind of concern that existed with COVID-19, and the smallpox vaccine works for it,' President Joe Biden said.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• Air Force Cadets Who Refused COVID Vaccine Won't Be Commissioned As of Saturday, the Air Force is the only military academy in which cadets aren't being commissioned because they refused to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• NYC Investigates Possible Case of Monkeypox NYC Health said the patient is being cared for, and if early tests come back positive, the tests will be sent to the CDC for confirmation.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• Exploding E-Cigarettes Cause Traumatic Injuries in Teens Burns and cuts caused by e-cigarette explosions have required hospitalization and surgery for teenage vapers, warn investigators.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• Oklahoma Bill Would Ban Almost All Abortions at Fertilization That goes beyond what other states have done in shortening the time period in which women could legally obtain abortions.
  WebMD Health News, May 20, 2022
• Roe v. Wade's Pending Fall Raises Privacy Concerns If Roe v. Wade is overturned and abortion becomes illegal, can criminal prosecutors or tech companies monitor period and fertility tracking apps, smartphone location data, and social media accounts?
  WebMD Health News, May 20, 2022
• CDC Says COVID Hospitalizations to Rise in Most States The forecast, which includes 32 different models across the country, predicts that nearly every US state and territory will see increases in new COVID-19 hospitalizations in the next 2 weeks.
  WebMD Health News, May 20, 2022