Author: Gabrielle M. Etzel

Academics are sounding the alarm that new rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could threaten important research oversight of the programs. CMS announced earlier this month that “growing data security concerns” prompted the agency to begin limiting Medicare and Medicaid patient data for private-sector researchers in universities and think tanks. Starting in…

Lawmakers in both chambers of the Alabama legislature have filed bills that would clarify state law related to embryos created via in vitro fertilization after significant backlash from the state Supreme Court’s ruling on the matter last week. Draft legislation from Republican state Sen. Tim Melson, the chairman of the Alabama Senate’s Healthcare Committee, states…

The hospital system involved in the controversial Alabama Supreme Court ruling on in vitro fertilization, or IVF, announced on Thursday that it would suspend all IVF procedures. The Center for Reproductive Medicine at Mobile Infirmary is “pausing IVF treatments to prepare embryos for transfer” effective Feb. 24, it said in a press statement sent to…

Women may realize more long-term health benefits of regular exercise than men, according to a new study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health. “Even a limited amount of regular exercise can provide a major benefit, and it turns out this is especially true for women,” cardiologist Susan Cheng, a co-author of the study…

Police in Texas are investigating the whereabouts of an 11-year-old girl who disappeared on Thursday as she was waiting for the bus to school. Audrii Cunningham was last seen last Thursday at 7 a.m. local time near her home in the East Texas town of Livingston, in Polk County, approximately 70 miles northeast of Houston.…

A GoFundMe campaign to pay for the recent civil judgment against Former President Donald Trump had reached nearly $500,000 in donations from more than 9,000 individual contributors on Monday. Social media influencer Elena Cardone, wife of billionaire private equity fund manager and entrepreneur Grant Cardone, set up the fundraising site on Friday following the judge’s…

The International Court of Justice began hearing oral arguments on Monday over the Israeli occupation of territory claimed by Palestinians. Representatives from 52 countries will participate in a six-day hearing at The Hague, Netherlands, to adjudicate the decades-old debate under the cloud of a contentious war in the region. The case comes from a request…

President Joe Biden is currently weighing his options for the U.S. response to the suspicious death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Biden told reporters on Monday that he is “considering additional sanctions” against Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin following Navalny’s death on Friday at a prison camp above the Arctic Circle. In 2021,…

Israel‘s economy has contracted sharply after the start of the war with Hamas, marking the first economic downturn for the country in two years. When annualized, Israel’s gross domestic product nosedived by 19.4% in the fourth quarter, according to a statement from the country’s Central Bureau of Statistics on Monday. This is compared to 1.8%…

The wife of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny vowed on Monday to continue the political work of her late husband, saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin was responsible for his death. “Three days ago, Vladimir Putin killed my husband, Alexei Navalny,” Yulia Navalnaya said in a YouTube video statement. “Putin killed the father…