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Trump administration has quietly throttled an agency devoted to the safety of American healthcare

The Trump administration has effectively shut down most of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s activities, closing the spigot on federal funding estimated to have saved thousands of lives and billions of dollars over the past 27 years by improving medical practice. In a July 15 letter, the small Department of Health and Human…

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Nolan Wells’ cause and manner of death undetermined, attorney says, citing family’s autopsy

The manner and cause of death for Nolan Wells, the Mississippi teen who was found dead at Horn Island after a Fourth of July outing with friends, are undetermined, pending investigation, according to attorney Ben Crump, citing a preliminary independent autopsy commissioned by the family. Crump said Wednesday there was “red discoloration” in the tissue in…

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