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Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
GOP Senator Forced to Step in After RFK Jr. Loses His Cool in Hearing
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. exploded during a hearing Tuesday, prompting a Republican senator to urge him to 'hold back.' Kennedy's outburst came after Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) slammed drastic staffing and funding cuts at his department, and asked whose decision it was to withhold certain childcare and development funds. Kennedy began by criticizing former President Joe Biden's administration, and when Murray tried to get him back on track, he snapped back: 'You know what, you've made an accusation and I'm going to answer it.' Kennedy then launched into into a heated personal tirade against Murray, who tried to rein him in to no avail. 'I want to point out something Senator, you've presided here, I think, for 32 years. You've presided over the destruction of the health of the American people,' he said as he raised his voice. 'Seriously?' Murray interjected repeatedly as Kennedy barged on. 'Our people are now the sickest people in the world because you have not done your job!' he exclaimed. 'Mr. Secretary, seriously,' Murray said. But Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist and frequent peddler of conspiracy theories, wasn't done. 'What have you done about it? What have you done about the epidemic of chronic disease?' he shouted, repeating, 'What have you done about the epidemic of chronic disease?' That's when Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), the chair of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that Kennedy was testifying before, decided to step in. 'Mr. Secretary I would ask you to hold back and let the senator ask the questions,' Capito told Kennedy. The answer to Murray's initial question about who had ordered the funding cuts turned out to be simple. 'That was made by my department,' Kennedy conceded. It wasn't just Democratic Senators who voiced concern about rollbacks that the HHS has made as part of President Donald Trump's crusade to slash the size of the federal government. Capito herself addressed recent cuts at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOH), which oversees workplace safety, saying: 'I support the President's vision to right-size our government, but as you and I have discussed, I don't think eliminating NIOSH programs will accomplish that goal.' Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) said cuts to mining research programs hosted by NIOH, 'undermines our ability to meet national security goals tied to mineral independence and supply chain resilience.'
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Surgeons help save sight of students shot in eyes
Surgeons from a specialist London eye hospital have helped save the sight of more than 20 Bangladeshi students who were wounded in last summer's protests in the country. Mahi Muqit and Niaz Islam, consultant ophthalmologists at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, evaluated 150 patients aged 14 and 30 during their visit to Dhaka last month. All patients had suffered bullet injuries to the eyes after taking part in protests organised by Students Against Discrimination in July 2024, with the majority receiving initial treatment last year. Mr Muqit, a senior vitreoretinal consultant at Moorfields, said: "It was an honour to be invited to help these people, and an intense experience for all of us." "It's such a privilege to be able to restore sight to people who have lived with sight loss for months," he added. What sparked the protests that toppled Bangladesh's PM? The specialist surgeons operated on 24 patients over two days to save their sight, following invitation from Bangladesh's interim government. Those who did not have surgery were given a rehabilitation plan. Mr Muqit said one of the patients he treated, Rohan, was shot in both eyes. "He was blinded in both eyes, with one being beyond hope," he said. "Our operation on the other eye fixed his retinal detachment and removed scar tissue. "We have every expectation that his vision will continue to improve as he recovers from the surgery." The specialists also discovered that one 20-year-old patient, named Minhaj, still had the original bullets inside his eye from last July. He required surgery to remove them and repair the damage. An estimated 1,000 people suffered some form of eye trauma during the demonstrations in July 2024. About 700 had emergency care from medics at the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital (NIOH) in Dhaka. Listen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to Drenched in blood - how Bangladesh protests turned deadly Videos reveal brutality that left scores dead in Bangladesh protests Bangladesh clashes: 90 killed in anti-government protests Moorfields Eye Hospital
BBC News
15-04-2025
- Health
- BBC News
London surgeons help save Bangladeshi students' sight
Surgeons from a specialist London eye hospital have helped save the sight of more than 20 Bangladeshi students who were wounded in last summer's protests in the Muqit and Niaz Islam, consultant ophthalmologists at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, evaluated 150 patients aged 14 and 30 during their visit to Dhaka last patients had suffered bullet injuries to the eyes after taking part in protests organised by Students Against Discrimination in July 2024, with the majority receiving initial treatment last Muqit, a senior vitreoretinal consultant at Moorfields, said: "It was an honour to be invited to help these people, and an intense experience for all of us." "It's such a privilege to be able to restore sight to people who have lived with sight loss for months," he added. The specialist surgeons operated on 24 patients over two days to save their sight, following invitation from Bangladesh's interim who did not have surgery were given a rehabilitation plan. Eye trauma Mr Muqit said one of the patients he treated, Rohan, was shot in both eyes."He was blinded in both eyes, with one being beyond hope," he said. "Our operation on the other eye fixed his retinal detachment and removed scar tissue."We have every expectation that his vision will continue to improve as he recovers from the surgery."The specialists also discovered that one 20-year-old patient, named Minhaj, still had the original bullets inside his eye from last required surgery to remove them and repair the estimated 1,000 people suffered some form of eye trauma during the demonstrations in July 700 had emergency care from medics at the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital (NIOH) in Dhaka.
