Health

FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn declined to comment Sunday when multiple Sunday program hosts pressured him about President Trump’s suggestion the day before that 99 percent of coronavirus cases were “harmless.” Hahn’s appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” and ABC News’s “This Week” followed Trump’s July 4 speech from the …

Plans are underway for a 60-game MLB 2020 season. The teams have reopened the camps, this time in their home cities, and schedules will be released soon. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic being delayed and then taking a big bite out of the 2020 season, the current expectation is that it …

Lucky Brand is the latest victim in retail. The denim and fashion retailer filed for bankruptcy on Friday, citing difficulties from the Covid-19 pandemic and the secular change of brick and mortar, the Associated Press reported. Among the suitors for the distressed retailer is Simon Property (NYSE: SPG) affiliate SPARC …

A city in northern China sounded an alert Sunday after a suspected case of bubonic plague was reported, according to official media here. Bayannur, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, announced a Tier III pest prevention and control warning, state agency People’s Daily Online reported. The suspected bubonic plague case was reported …

BEIJING (Reuters) – Authorities in a city in China’s Inner Mongolia region issued a warning Sunday, a day after a hospital reported a suspected case of bubonic plague. The Bayan Nur City Health Committee issued the third-level alert, the second lowest in a four-tier system. The alert prohibits the hunting …