Health

The White House has missed the deadline to publish a rule banning menthol cigarettes, angering public health advocates who fear that the policy will be indefinitely postponed due to election year politics. In an attempt to compel the administration to act, three anti-tobacco public health groups sued the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday.

It’s affecting small long-term care facilities, substance use disorder clinics and federally funded health centers that rely on Medicaid.

The initial human trial is ongoing and could revolutionize organ donation if successful.

President Biden chastised what he called an “extreme” Florida Supreme Court ruling upholding the state’s 15-week abortion ban and triggering an even more restrictive policy. “Yesterday’s extreme decision puts desperately needed medical care even further out of reach for millions of women in Florida and across the South,” Biden said Tuesday in a statement. “The…

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) on Monday signed a law recriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs. The law makes personal use possession a misdemeanor punishable with sentences of up to six months in jail. However, it also creates avenues for treatment instead of criminal penalties by encouraging law enforcement agencies to start programs…

Chiang Mai is ranked as the city with the third highest level of PM2.5 dust in the air today, measured at 128.2µg/m³, and an air quality index of 188 on…