Tag: Healthcare industry regulation
Lazio hit with bans for evading coronavirus protocols
ROME — Lazio president Claudio Lotito has been banned from soccer activities for seven months and two club physicians were suspended for an entire...
Bolsonaro under fire as Brazil hits 300,000 virus deaths
<p>SAO PAULO — Mere miles from Brazil’s presidential palace, the bodies of COVID-19 victims were laid on floors of hospitals whose morgues were overflowing....
Bolsonaro under fire as Brazil hits 300,000 virus deaths
SAO PAULO — Mere miles from Brazil’s presidential palace, the bodies of COVID-19 victims were laid on floors of hospitals whose morgues were overflowing....
Alternatives to nursing homes get $12B boost in COVID bill
WASHINGTON — With the memory of the pandemic's toll in nursing homes still raw, the COVID-19 relief bill is offering states a generous funding...
Newly confirmed surgeon general to focus on COVID, opioids
WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed a soft-spoken physician as President Joe Biden's surgeon general Tuesday. While Dr. Vivek Murthy says ending the coronavirus pandemic...
S Carolina lawmaker draws ire from fellow Dems on trans bill
<p>COLUMBIA, S.C. — Twenty-three South Carolina Republicans have signed onto a measure aimed at blocking hormonal treatments for transgender youth. But the bill’s chief...
S Carolina lawmaker draws ire from fellow Dems on trans bill
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Twenty-three South Carolina Republicans have signed onto a measure aimed at blocking hormonal treatments for transgender youth. But the bill’s chief...
Spain passes euthanasia law despite conservative opposition
MADRID — Lawmakers voted Thursday to make Spain the seventh country in the world and the fourth in Europe to allow physician-assisted suicide and...
Ex-UK cycling doc banned from medical work over drug order
MANCHESTER, England — British medical authorities on Friday banned the former doctor of the British Olympic program and the Tour de France-winning Team Sky...
Anxiety, confusion, terror: giving birth during a pandemic
<p>NEW YORK — Pregnancy, birth and life with a newborn in the middle of a pandemic has brought on high anxiety, ever-shifting hospital protocols...