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Vitamin A, While Helpful for Measles, Is Not a Replacement for Vaccination13:13 This is a MedPage Today story. Both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend vitamin A for all patients with measles -- not just severe cases -- but experts warn that this shouldn't be seen as a replacement for vaccination. In a recent opinion piece for Fox News, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote that studies support the administration of vitamin A "under the supervision of a physician for those with mild, moderate, and severe infection"… Historic Strike Involving Thousands of Oregon Healthcare Workers Comes to an End13:13 This is a MedPage Today story. A strike involving nearly 5,000 healthcare workers at Providence Health in Oregon, which began Jan. 10, has come to an end. Late Monday, eight RN bargaining units voted overwhelmingly to ratify their contracts and end the strike, which was believed to be the largest involving healthcare workers, and the first involving physicians, in the state's history, according to the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA), which represented the workers. Among the key provisions in th… Kenya’s Ebola cases hit 8, with no community transmission yet4:08 Ebola cases in Kenya rose to eight on Sunday after another person tested positive while in quarantine, having been identified as a contact of the first patient Malnutrition stalks the most vulnerable in Afghanistan as aid cuts leave millions helpless15.října Hunger and acute malnutrition are rising dramatically in Afghanistan, the result of overlapping crises A new Medicare season begins, but some shifts will arrive in 202715.října Open enrollment for Medicare plans begins Thursday, allowing people to choose between traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans until Dec. 7 Pope Leo is eating and walking after cancer surgery, but Latin America trip is in question14.října Doctors say Pope Leo XIV is eating regularly and has begun walking and doing respiratory exercises, and his post-operative tests are normal following surgery to remove a cancerous mass from his lung Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer called adenocarcinoma. Here's what that means14.října Pope Leo XIV had the lower section of his right lung removed as doctors diagnosed him with the most common form of lung cancer Mother's 3-day walk with sick daughter highlights Somalia's child malnutrition emergency12.října A Somali mother walked for three days carrying her severely malnourished 3-year-old daughter nearly 90 kilometers to a hospital in Kismayo |