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A Co Kerry senior that received doses of a Covid-19 vaccine unexpectedly has said that getting the jab is an honour and like winning the lotto.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Congress has given U.S. service personnel slightly improved help if they find they have been harmed while receiving military medical care and want to pursue justice via legal actions. Lawmakers, as part of a big bill at year’s end dealing with many different matters affecting the Department of Veterans Affairs, also quietly approved legal provisions that were part of the eponymous Brian Tally VA Employment Transparency Act. These we...

Bar Complaints Filed Against Three Attorneys Who Pressed Louie Gohmert’s ‘Frivolous and Dangerous’ Lawsuit to Overturn 2020 Presidential Election Colin Kalmbacher Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, speaks during the House Judiciary committee hearing on June 24, 2020. Bar complaints were filed earlier this week against three attorneys who worked on lawsuits aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election. Julia Z. Haller; (2) Gohmert v. Pence, a lawsuit filed ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Although politicians have obsessed for a decade about affordable health insurance, frustrated patients have seen little or no relief on another crucial concern — the skyrocketing costs of medical services. What policy paths could best offer dollars-and-cents help to struggling people with health care prices? New research from the independent, nonpartisan RAND Corporation offers intriguing clues about billions of dollars in annual sa...

The race to deal with the existential threat of climate change by making millions of vehicles smarter, more efficient, and environmentally friendly may be on a collision course with...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Johnson & Johnson and the “big three” distributors of prescription drugs — McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health — have disclosed that they will take tax deductions on sums they will fork over to states, local governments, Indian tribes, and others that sued them over damages that they say occurred after they flooded the country with powerful painkillers, the Washington Post reported. The four companies have agreed t...

After months of giving chaotic and counter-factual guidance — or none at all — on the coronavirus pandemic, the federal government now under President Biden has weighed in on vital...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The opioid abuse and drug overdose crisis has tarred yet another of the nation’s business titans: McKinsey, a globally renowned consulting firm, has discovered that providing corporate clients sketchy advice about addictive, debilitating, and even lethal prescription medications can have consequences. The firm, which has apologized for its conduct, has agreed to pay $573.9 million in a settlement with 47 states over consulting wor...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Many Americans took a good step for themselves and their loved ones after getting shocked by learning about treatments, like prolonged machine ventilation, that coronavirus patients may undergo. Not for me, the healthy may have decided. They committed to determining end-of-life wishes, committing these to “advance directives” or POLST (portable orders for life-sustaining treatment) forms. That may just the start of what people ne...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: not to ask the people who oversaw battling the pandemic before: What the heck were you thinking? More on that in a second. As of Jan. 29, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that ~49 million vaccine doses had been shipped and ~28 million were administered, with ~23 million patients now having received at least one of two shots required. That is a far stretch from what will be needed to get hundreds of mill...