Associated Press

The legislation will help veterans get disability payments without having to prove their illness was the result of their service. Other health care services will be expanded as well.

Britain’s Health Security Agency said it had detected polio viruses derived from the oral polio vaccine in sewage water from eight boroughs of London, but had not identified any cases.

The only Lyme vaccine for humans was pulled off the U.S. market in 2002 from lack of demand, leaving people to rely on bug spray and tick checks.

President Biden is urging swift House passage, and the House seems on track to provide final congressional approval when it returns briefly from summer recess on Friday.

The 12-year-old had been in a coma since early April. British courts had rejected the family’s request to transfer him to a hospice, and the European Court of Human Rights refused to intervene.

Health officials said Thursday that the polio virus has now been found in seven different wastewater samples in two adjacent counties north of New York City.

WHO said the number of new cases fell 35% in Europe but increased about 20% in the Western Pacific . Deaths rose 44% in the Western Pacific and 26% in the Middle East, while falling about a quarter in Europe.

Prior to last year, the uninsured rate had consistently remained in the double digits for decades.

One of the directives will allow states that have not outlawed abortion to apply for Medicaid waivers that would help them treat women who've traveled from out of state.

The legislation expands access to care through the VA for millions who served near burn pits. It also directs the VA to presume that certain respiratory illnesses and cancers were related to burn pits without proof.