The measles outbreak in California has hit 63 cases since it surfaced in Disneyland this past December, and several new cases have now surfaced in three Bay Area counties, resulting in a potential new spread of the highly-contagious disease there.
Public health officials are raising their measles intervention alert, urging adults to consider a measles vaccine booster as California now reports 59 cases of the disease.
Inspired by the case of Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old California woman terminally ill with brain cancer who moved to Oregon to commit suicide legally, two California lawmakers have introduced a bill to permit assisted suicide.
An outbreak of measles thought to have originated in Anaheim’s Disneyland amusement park earlier this week has now expanded throughout Southern California, with 45 cases now confirmed in the state and an additional six cases confirmed in three other states and Mexico.
An anonymous story, penned by a self-described character actor residing in Tinseltown, is published in the Hollywood Reporter’s Jan. 23 issue. It reveals how one HIV positive actor was able to have a child, born free of the virus, through a process called “sperm washing.”
When Martin Pistorius was 12 years old, an unknown serious illness caused him to fall into a coma, where he remained for the next 12 years. Despite his poor prognosis, his family continued to care for him, not knowing their son could hear them and was aware of all that was happening around him. Now, he has written a book about that experience.
Abortion groups are complaining and pro-life groups are celebrating the fact that abortion clinics in the U.S. are closing on a regular basis.
Colorado is being hit with a rise in cases of upper respiratory illness this year, and doctors are warning that without treatment, patients could suffer for weeks once they’ve contracted the virus. Dr. John Torres, Medical contributor for KUSA in
Nine people who visited Southern California’s Disneyland or California Adventure theme parks during a five-day period in December have contracted measles, California health officials announced Wednesday.
U.S. campaigners against surrogate motherhood have told Breitbart News they are not at all surprised by the controversy swirling around two gay millionaires who became the first LGBT men to have their names entered on the birth certificate of children born from gestational surrogacy.
In its January issue, the magazine of the Washington DC Bar Association mulls over the end of Roe V. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in all 50 States.
The Daily Mail reports on Harry Reid’s “exercise accident” on New Year’s Day, reminding that this isn’t the first time he’s recently sustained a mysterious injury and cited a workout as the cause.
There’s good news and bad news in a report that new drug approvals by the Food and Drug Administration have hit an 18-year high.
The Centers for Disease Control declared a flu epidemic this week, as the death toll from “influenza-like” complications rose to 15 children. The flu season began early—part of a troubling pattern stretching back across several years—and the current strain seems resistant to commonly available vaccines.
Two male adult film actors tested positive for HIV this week, with officials speculating that one actor infected the other with the virus while having unprotected sex on a film shoot in Nevada. The incident marks the first time since 2004 that adult film performers contracted the virus on a film set.
The country, especially the Midwest, is being socked with a flu strain that the Centers for Disease Control has rated as “severe” because of the higher-than-average number of cases being reported.
Elizabeth Warren says the FDA’s proposal to accept blood donation from gay men who have been celibate for a year is still discriminatory.
There are transsexual fish in the lowland rivers of England. Boy fish are turning into girl fish, or at least developing female attributes.
Life Site News reports on a study showing that after Chile banned abortion in 1989, women didn’t start dying in droves from unsafe, illegal procedures to kill their unborn children. In fact, the opposite occurred.
“The public should be skeptical about recommendations made on medical talk shows.” That was the conclusion of a new study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), which found that existing medical research either did not support, or, in some
