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close Video Manchin touts 'red, white and blue' reconciliation deal despite recession woes: 'Tremendous opportunity' Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., joined 'Fox News Sunday' to discuss the legislation amid concerns surrounding rampant inflation and economic recession. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! House Republicans and various advocacy groups are working to kill the $739 billion tax, climate change and health care bill authored by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. GOP leaders are whipping against the bill ahead of an expected House vote on Friday. Republicans are eager to show unified opposition to the legislation and make House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's slim Democratic majority solely responsible for its passage. HOUSE REPUBLICANS PREP FIGHT AGAINST DEMS' SOCIAL SPENDING AND TAX BILL AS SENATE MOVES TO PASS House Republican Whip Steve Scalise , R-La., told Fox News Digital the … [Read more...] about House Republicans, health care groups whipping against $739B Manchin-Schumer bill

Youngsters are likely to suffer the brunt of the worsening health effects of rising global temperatures due to record levels of obesity and physical inactivity, a new comprehensive analysis of recent studies on the topic gave a clear warning. The research led by Dr Shawnda Morrison, an environmental exercise physiologist, argues that while physical fitness is key to tolerating higher temperatures, children are more obese and less fit than ever before and her findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal Temperature. This could put them at greater risk of suffering heat-related health problems, such as dehydration, heat cramps, heat exhaustion or heat stroke. She says that current climate change policies fail to adequately address child health needs and that encouraging children to make exercise part of their everyday lives must be prioritised if they are to cope with living in a hotter world. From Slovenia’s University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Sport, Dr Morrison is an … [Read more...] about New Research Says Children’s Health Can be Impacted As Global Temperatures Rise

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 3 Xochtil Larios walked into the Oakland apartment last year and breathed a sigh of relief inside her first stable home in a decade. For Larios, who was removed from a volatile home at age 12, the previous nine years were spent trying to get a foothold as she careened between foster homes, homeless shelters and, occasionally, juvenile hall. Aged out of receiving government services when she turned 21, Larios felt lucky to get a subsidized apartment in one of the least affordable regions in the U.S. “That feeling of having a place of your own, that’s something I’ll never forget,” Larios, now 22, recalled. “It almost seemed unreal, like I was in a dream. To have my own home — to feel safe and have a permanent roof over my head — I cried happy tears.” To help other young adults who face a service cliff as they age out of the foster care system, Larios and a team of 11 former foster … [Read more...] about They made it through foster care. Now they’re persuading this Bay Area county to pay it backward

Once again, the United States is messing up its approach to vaccines. Three months into its monkeypox outbreak, just 620,000 doses of the two-injection Jynneos shot—the nation’s current best immune defense against the virus—have been shipped to states , not nearly enough to immunize the 1.6 million to 1.7 million Americans that the CDC considers at highest risk. The next deliveries from the manufacturer aren’t slated until September at the earliest . For now, we’re stuck with the stocks we’ve got. Which is why the feds have turned to Inoculation Plan B: splitting Jynneos doses into five, and poking them into the skin, rather than into the layer of fat beneath. The FDA issued an emergency-use authorization for the strategy yesterday afternoon. This dose-sparing tactic will allow far more people to sign up for doses before summer’s end; if successful, it could help contain the outbreak in the U.S., which currently accounts for nearly a third of the world’s documented … [Read more...] about America’s New Monkeypox Strategy Rests on a Single Study

The battle over reproductive rights thrust the importance of our fundamental right to privacy back into the center of everyday life. From menstrual cycle tracking apps, to Google searches for abortion services, our relationship with the privacy of our personal information shifted underneath our feet. That's why our fight for genetic privacy is so vital. Think about it. When a consumer signs up to do a genetic test, she may do so to discover her ethnic heritage, find a distant family member, or learn the chances she may one day be at risk for a hereditary disease. What she likely does not expect is that data may be accessible by some of the world's most repressive regimes, used in warrantless law enforcement searches, or commercialized by pharmaceutical companies. Unfortunately, that is exactly what can happen to consumers' genetic data today. Unlike other unique identifiers, such as a Social Security number or login credentials, our genome cannot be changed—even if it's … [Read more...] about There’s no “reset password” for your DNA | Opinion

A Disneyland establishment closed on July 29 because of a major food safety violation: a rodent infestation. The affected location was a retail shop, not a restaurant, the Orange County Register reported . report from the Orange County Health Care Agency states. The inspector immediately closed the facility, instructing Disneyland employees to “remove all prepacked food items, including case lot beverages, with the exception of the glass door cooler that was sealed off at the time of this inspection.” The inspector also required Disneyland to seal several potential entry points for vermin before it could reopen. Several other Disneyland restaurants were also inspected in July and early August, including the Blue Bayou, Red Rose Taverne, Stage Door Cafe and River Belle Terrace. These restaurants all passed their inspections, without the presence of vermin. The shop remained closed until August 1, after a final entry point was sealed to the satisfaction of the … [Read more...] about Rodent infestation closes Disneyland shop

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for August 10 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded its emergency use authorization (EUA) of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine on Tuesday. The move allows health care providers to use the vaccine with a shallower intradermal injection for individuals 18 years of age and older who are determined to be at high risk for infection from the virus. The agency said that the update will increase the total number of doses available for use by up to five-fold because intradermal administration requires a smaller dose. In addition, the FDA's EUA also allows for use of the vaccine – administered by subcutaneous injection, or injection beneath the skin – in individuals younger than 18 years of age who are determined to be at high risk of infection. MONKEYPOX IN … [Read more...] about Monkeypox vaccine authorization expanded by FDA to increase dose supply

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 2 When a new disease erupts, misinformation and rumors tend to proliferate — as witnessed in the past with the AIDS crisis , the Ebola outbreak and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic . Now it’s the monkeypox outbreak ’s turn. Monkeypox is not a new illness, but because of its rarity prior to the current outbreak that has infected more than 31,000 people globally, much of the confusion revolves around how the virus spreads and ways that people can become infected. Monkeypox is in the same family as smallpox, but causes milder symptoms and is rarely fatal. The vaccine developed for smallpox is used for monkeypox as well, but vaccine supplies have been scarce, and the rollout to the eligible population has been frustratingly slow for many . On Aug. 4, the Biden administration declared a national monkeypox health emergency. San Francisco and California issued similar proclamations … [Read more...] about Does monkeypox spread through the air, or on surfaces? Here’s what to know

The new cheese puff snack brand Ffups stresses that they are not a “better-for-you” alternative. They make no promises of rejuvenated digestion, extra nutrients, or plant-based goodness. These “unapologetically indulgent” puffs are just tasty “things for your mouth.” “If you’re worried about Ffups being healthy, you’re on the wrong website,” reads the blunt marketing copy. “Go eat some carrots!” Andrea Hernández, the creator of snack trend newsletter Snaxshot, has witnessed a new generation of brands rejecting aggressive health marketing claims, which have begun to feel like “Mad Libs” of every nutrient under the sun. Consumers were bombarded with charcoal-infused cheddar cheese and vegetable ice cream (“it’s good for immunity!”). CBD seltzer promised a “meditation in a can.” Even Evian released a line of functional “mineral enhanced” sparkling water called Feed Your Mind to allegedly boost cognitive function. “The funniest was beverage brands having to label … [Read more...] about The Goop-ification of wellness is on the way out (you can thank Gen Z)

The case of a Nebraska woman charged with helping her teenage daughter end her pregnancy after investigators obtained Facebook messages between the two has raised fresh concerns about data privacy in the post-Roe world. Since before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, Big Tech companies that collect personal details of their users have faced new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance amid fears that law enforcement or vigilantes could use those data troves against people seeking abortions or those who try to help them. Meta, which owns Facebook, said Tuesday it received warrants requesting messages in the Nebraska case from local law enforcement on June 7, before the Supreme Court decision overriding Roe came down. The warrants, the company added, “did not mention abortion at all,” and court documents at the time showed that police were investigating the “alleged illegal burning and burial of a stillborn infant." However, in early June, the mother and … [Read more...] about EXPLAINER: Online privacy in a post-Roe world