Millions of Americans deal with balance disorders, and James Madison University researchers will take a look at how it relates to aging.
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Youngkin advances wild claim about fentanyl deaths: Seriously, 85 million?
A press release from the office of Gov. Glenn Youngkin makes the eye-popping claim that the MAGA governor’s efforts to get fentanyl off the streets prevented 85 million deaths over the past three-plus years.
Republicans are going to gut Medicaid to fund tax cuts for the 1 percent
I’m seeing fellow liberals getting upset because Nebraska Republican Don Bacon is supposedly suggesting cutting $500 billion from Medicaid, like that’s his idea or something.
Virginia Department of Health tracing potential exposure to measles through child
The Virginia Department of Health is working to trace a potential measles outbreak after a child who traveled internationally was diagnosed.
Waynesboro: Everclear’s Art Alexakis talks politics, ’90s rock and roll, mental health
Art Alexakis wasn’t planning to release another Everclear album, but the current state of politics may have changed his mind.
Three states, including Virginia, considered hotspot for pandemic-potential deadly virus
Virginia is one of three states that are hotspots for a deadly virus circulating in wildlife, and it can also be fatal in humans.
‘Attack on public health’: HHS staff cuts will hurt Americans ‘every single day’
The end of March in the United States brought more staff cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency at the HHS.
Red fox in Northern Virginia tests positive for highly pathogenic bird flu
A red fox tested positive for avian influenza in Virginia and is the first known case in a mammal in the state.
Blue Ridge Poison Center: Too much vitamin A, touted as a measles cure, can kill you
Anti-vax Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thinks we can more effectively prevent measles outbreaks by giving our kids high doses of vitamin A than we can with vaccines.
Senators to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: You’re making America sick again
Who’s thinking about the mental health of the tens of thousands of federal healthcare workers laid off this week by the Trump/Musk administration to free up money for tax breaks for billionaires?