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As a national public health crisis develops across the country due to an outbreak of fungal meningitis, lawyers in Minnesota have filed a class action against the company that compounded, or mixed, the steroid medication that has sickened 214 and killed 15 people. Barbe Puro of Minneapolis received an injection  on Sept. 17 of methylprednisolone acetate made by the New England Compounding Center (NECC). She later developed headaches and nausea; then the Minnesota Department of Health called and told her she’d …

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has called upon Congress to enact tougher guns laws after four of his city’s police officers were shot and wounded while responding to a hostage situation in Brooklyn on April 8. Those shootings brought to eight the number of NYPD officers who have been shot in recent months—one of them resulting in a fatality—and, according to Bloomberg, all the guns used in those events were illegally owned. “And make no mistake: It will …

In October, authorities removed an 8-year-old boy from his home in Cleveland and placed him in foster care because county officials said the mother was not doing enough to control the child’s weight. At the time the boy was seized, he weighed more than 200 pounds, which is well over three times the normal weight of a child his age. The boy has since been placed with his uncle. The case has ignited a debate about whether extreme childhood obesity …