Tag Archives: Inaction

The first step to combatting disease is often raising awareness among both the general population and medical professionals. Such is the mission being undertaken by experts on Chagas disease, a potentially deadly condition that is spread by parasites living in so-called kissing bugs, CNN reported. “We’ve been waiting forever,” said Norman Beatty, one of the authors of a new study …

An Ocala grandmother claims a local healthcare provider did not diagnose her breast cancer for several months, allowing the disease to advance to Stage IV while she awaited an appointment for imaging. Attorneys representing Shonte D. Page filed the lawsuit against the University of Central Florida College of Medicine Graduate Medical Education Program and Heart of Florida Health Center in …

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) coincidentally issued its own vaccine recommendations Tuesday. The organization recommended children aged 6 months to 23 months should receive COVID-19 vaccines unless they have allergies to the ingredients. Older children should also receive the vaccines if they’re at elevated risk of transmitting the virus to others at high risk of COVID-related complications. That breaks …

A crying child in the stands turned what should have been pure tennis drama into something far more complicated. Emma Raducanu and World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka were locked in an exhausting Cincinnati Open thriller when the disruption began, and what happened next sparked a heated debate about crowd control, parenting, and whether a chair umpire went too far. How …