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RFK Jr. Visits Epicenter of Texas Measles Outbreak After Death of Second Child Who Was Infected

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited the epicenter of Texas’ still-growing measles outbreak on Sunday, the same day a funeral was held for a second young child who was not vaccinated and died from a measles-related illness.

Kennedy said in a social media post that he was working to “control the outbreak” and went to Gaines County to comfort the families who have buried two young children. He was seen late Sunday afternoon outside of a Mennonite church where the funeral services were held, but he did not attend a nearby news conference held by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the outbreak.

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Seminole is the epicenter of the outbreak, which started in late January and continues to swell — with nearly 500 cases in Texas alone, plus cases from the outbreak believed to have spread to New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Mexico.

The second young child died Thursday from “what the child’s doctor describe..

Second Child Dies From Measles-Related Causes in West Texas, Where Cases Near 500

A second unvaccinated school-aged child in West Texas died from a measles-related illness, a hospital spokesman confirmed Sunday, as the outbreak continues to swell.

Aaron Davis, a spokesperson for UMC Health System in Lubbock, Texas, said that the child was “receiving treatment for complications of measles while hospitalized” and did not have underlying health conditions. The hospital declined to say which day the child died.

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Neither the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention nor the Texas State Department of State Health Services include the death in their measles reports issued Friday. Spokespeople for the state health department, the CDC and the U.S. Health and Human Services Department didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment on Sunday.

A unvaccinated school-age child died in February in Lubbock — the first measles death in the U.S. in a decade. In early March, an adult in New Mexico who was unvaccinated and did not seek medi..

Prostate cancer drug now available to more patients with aggressive form of disease

A newly expanded prostate cancer drug could bring new hope to patients with a common form of the disease.
Novartis, a Switzerland-based pharmaceutical company, announced on March 28 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded approval for Pluvicto (lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan), a targeted radioligand therapy (RLT) that is given before chemotherapy.
(RLTs are a form of targeted nuclear medicine that doctors use to treat multiple types of cancer, according to Novartis.)
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The drug is intended for patients with PSMA-positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who have received one round of androgen receptor pathway inhibitors (ARPIs), a class of drugs used in the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer.
Pluvicto first got FDA approval on March 23, 2022, but this new expanded approval triples the number of patients eligible to receive the drug, according to a Nova..

How to Cope with the Sunday Scaries

It’s Sunday night, and you’re feeling sad and anxious about going back to work in the morning. Say hello to the Sunday scaries.

You’re not alone in your workweek dread: “They’re very, very common,” says Susanne Cooperman, a neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst at New York University Langone Huntington Medical Group. “There’s nothing wrong with a person if they feel sad that the weekend is over. It’s when it really interferes in your functioning—when you can’t focus, when you can’t sleep, when you feel yourself medicating with alcohol—then you need help.”

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Here’s why people get the Sunday scaries and the best ways to combat those thoughts of doom and gloom.

What are the Sunday scaries?

The Sunday scaries typically manifest in two ways: feelings of depression that the weekend is ending, feelings of anxiety about the week to come, or both. These feelings typically start on Sunday afternoon.

“It could be that you feel sad and irritable and you have diff..

Can’t stop clearing your throat? A doctor explains why — and how to fix it

Clearing one’s throat is a common reflex to remove mucus and irritants — particularly during allergy season.
But for some, it can become a habit that's hard to break, which can lead to stress and anxiety.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, laryngologist Dr. Inna Husain shared the causes of chronic throat clearing, as well as when to see a specialist and how to kick the habit.
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When people clear their throats, it actually slams the vocal folds together, which over time can cause lesions, nodules, bruising and hemorrhages that affect the voice, according to Husain, who works at Powers Health in Munster, Indiana.
«Those same vocal cords are used to help create sound — so if you keep slamming them, you could injure the surface area of the vocal cords,» she said.
One cause of throat clearing is laryngeal pharyngeal reflux (LPR), or «silent reflux.» This condition occurs when stomach contents come up into the throat,..

Second child with measles has died in Texas, officials say

A second child with measles in Texas has died, although the exact cause of death is unknown at this time, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. plans to attend the child’s funeral on Sunday, a spokesperson told NBC News.
The pair of children and an adult in New Mexico who is also believed to have died from measles are the first reported deaths in connection with the disease in the country in a decade.
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Since January, 481 cases of measles have been confirmed in Texas alone, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
That total includes six infants and toddlers at a day care center in Lubbock who tested positive within the past two weeks, according to NBC News. Two of those children are among 56 people who have been hospitalized with measles in the area since the disease began spreading in January.
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Women may hear better than men, new study suggests

The old adage is that moms have eyes in the back of their heads, but a new study shows that women in general may also have more sensitive hearing.
The study, recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, sought to examine the correlation between multiple factors — including gender, age and region, among others — and hearing sensitivity.
Patricia Balaresque, Ph.D., at the Centre for Biodiversity and Environmental Research in Toulouse, France, led a team of scientists to conduct hearing tests on 448 individuals from 13 global communities in Ecuador, England, Gabon, South Africa and Uzbekistan.
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The results show that hearing sensitivity is primarily influenced by gender and environment, followed by age and left versus right ear.
«Our findings challenge existing assumptions and highlight the need to consider both biological and environmental factors when studying hearing,» Balaresque said in a press release.
Scientists m..

Trump Administration Nixes Plan to Cover Anti-Obesity Drugs Through Medicare

President Donald Trump’s administration has decided not to cover expensive, high-demand obesity treatments under the federal government’s Medicare program.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said late Friday that it would not cover the medications under Medicare’s Part D prescription drug coverage. Medicare covers health care expenses mainly for people age 65 and older.

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Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, proposed a rule in late November after Trump won re-election that would have extended coverage of drugs like Zepbound and Wegovy. The rule was not expected to be finalized until Trump took office.

Trump returned to office in January. The Senate confirmed Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday.

CMS did not offer an explanation Friday for its decision, and federal spokespeople did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has..

Ivanka Trump’s jiu-jitsu practice benefits whole family, celebrity trainers reveal

First daughter Ivanka Trump has gone public with her practice of jiu-jitsu.
In a recent Instagram post by martial artists The Valente Brothers, Trump showed off her mastered maneuvers with trainer Gui Valente.
Trump recently shared that her daughter, Arabella, first started taking classes before the entire family joined.
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Supermodel Gisele Bündchen, who has also trained with the Valente brothers and is the mother of Joaquim Valente's child, has publicly called out the benefits of her own jiu-jitsu practice.
«I feel stronger, more confident and empowered since I started practicing self-defense,» she said in a previous Instagram post. «I feel it’s an important skill for all, but especially for us women.»
In an on-camera interview with Fox News Digital, the three Valente brothers — Pedro, Gui and Joaquim, who are based in Miami, Florida — shared why a self-defense practice like jiu-jitsu is a great physical an..

Could the Shingles Vaccine Help Prevent Dementia?

If your doctor told you that a vaccine against dementia was available, would you be interested? According to a study published April 2 in the journal Nature by researchers in the U.S. and Germany, this question might not be hypothetical anymore.

The varicella-zostervirus—which causes varicella (chickenpox) in childhood and zoster (shingles) after lying dormant in nerve cells and re-activating later in life—is one virus that scientists have hypothesized can cause dementia, because it infects the nervous system. We have vaccines against both conditions. The chickenpox vaccine protects children from the initial viral infection, and the separate shingles vaccine prevents the virus from reactivating in previously infected adults (which is most adults born before widespread chickenpox vaccination began in the late 1990s), stopping it from causing the painful shingles rash.

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The traditional way to find out if vaccinating adults against this virus could preve..