Stocks slumped again on Wall Street Tuesday, driving the S&P 500 down 3%, piling on losses a day after the market’s biggest drop in two years as fears spread that the growing coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak will put the brakes on the global economy.
In his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, President Donald Trump called on Congress to ‘finally’ ban ‘the late-term abortion of babies,’ adding that all Americans — Republican, Democrat, Independent — can agree that ‘every human life is a sacred gift of God.’
A pastor in Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus outbreak is at its worst, penned a letter on Jan. 23 addressed to Christians everywhere seeking to describe the trial believers in Wuhan are enduring.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the second case of human transmission of the coronavirus within the United States.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday declared a global emergency over the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China, and U.S. health authorities reported the first confirmed case in the United States of a patient with no recent history of travel to Wuhan, the outbreak epicenter.
Planned Parenthood performed a record number of abortions in 2018 and 2019, according to new data released by the organization, even while the overall number of abortions that took place in the US fell.
Of the 47 states that reported their annual abortion numbers to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New York had the highest rate, ratio and overall number of abortions, according to a newly released CDC report.
Drug-resistant germs and related infections sicken about 3 million people and kill about 48,000 every year in the United States, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new estimates show that previous figures missed about half of the illnesses and deaths.
A White House official tells CBN News that President Trump will speak this Saturday at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. Thousands of evangelicals will be on hand to hear from the Commander-in-Chief at the event run by the conservative Family Research Council. Trump spoke at the event back in 2017 and Vice President Mike Pence addressed the crowd last year.
A strain of Salmonella Newport in some beef in the United States and in some soft cheeses in Mexico has been found to be resistant to antibiotic treatment, according to a release from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published Friday.
Syphilis cases have soared in Europe over the last decade and become, for the first time since the early 2000s, more common in some countries than new cases of HIV, health experts said Friday.
The number of babies born in the U.S. in 2018 fell to the lowest level in 32 years, according to a government report released Wednesday.
‘Antimicrobial resistance is a global crisis that threatens a century of progress in health and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals,” states the opening line of a UN Report to the Secretary-General published last month.
A superbug spreading in the United States is sending chills through the medical community. It’s a fungal infection that can’t be killed by our best medicines.
The measles outbreak in the United States has grown to its second-highest level in a quarter-century, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
Measles cases have cropped up across 12 states over the last ten weeks — nearly two decades since the highly contagious disease was said to be eradicated in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating 286 possible cases of a polio-like condition called acute flaccid myelitis, including 116 confirmed ones in 31 states, the agency said Monday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday confirmed eight more cases of acute flaccid myelitis, a polio-like disease, bringing the total to 80 confirmed cases across 25 states this year.
U.S. health officials on Tuesday reported a jump in cases of a rare paralyzing illness in children, and said it seems to be following an every-other-year pattern.
The number of babies born with syphilis has more than doubled since 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a trend that medical professionals said shows the need to be vigilant about testing and treating the rare but potentially disease.