All posts tagged "Immunesystemdisorders"

Christina Applegate might be taking her final bow soon. The Emmy winner’s role as Jen Harding on “Dead to Me” could be her last following her multiple sclerosis diagnosis, she told Variety. “Jen Harding is the one, who — who knows, quite possibly the last one I’ll play,” Applegate, 50, said. “I don’t know how capable I am,” she said, on the verge of tears. “This was a gift to me.” Noting that filming the third-and-final season of the Emmy-nominated Netflix hit was “as hard as you would possibly think it would be,” Applegate told Variety she was at work when she learned of her diagnosis, which ......

A man in Clarksville, Ind. who was “fully qualified to work as a police officer” didn’t get the job because of his HIV status, federal authorities said. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Clarksville, saying that the town’s police department “unlawfully revoked a job offer to a qualified law enforcement officer based on his Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) diagnosis,” which constitutes a violation of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Title I of the ADA prohibits employers from discriminating against qualified individuals on the basis of disa......

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The West is burning and residents are already feeling the impacts on their health. As plumes of smoke and poor air quality blanket California, residents may experience tightening in their chests, eye irritation, runny noses, sore throats, coughing attacks. The Air Quality Index, a method of air quality reporting and forecasting, rose as high as 226 in Sacramento this week. While the AQI was higher in 2018 from the Camp Fire, Sacramento County's current bad air quality still poses serious health threats. "It is concerning because we are exposed to higher pollutant concentra......