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GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer to merge healthcare divisions

Pfizer will receive 32 percent equity stake in the joint venture and will have the right to appoint three out of the nine members of the joint venture's board. ...

Study warns teenage vape use skyrocketed in 2018

This was the largest single-year increase in the survey's 44-year history, the survey said. "They can put it in their sleeve or their pocket. They can do it i...

Klobuchar criticizes court decision on Affordable Care Act

Now that republicans have learned that they can not repeal the bill via legislation (despite controlling the House and Senate), they are now trying to dismantle...

Is Obamacare going to be repealed? Probably not, experts say

O'Connor decided that once Congress repealed the tax penalty that enforced a mandate that most Americans get health insurance , the whole law became invalid...

A federal judge in Texas just ruled the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional

Obama signed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, and most of the provisions took effect in 2014. Democrats vowed to appeal Friday's decision, which could set ...

Affordable Care Act Health Coverage Sign up deadline Saturday

Many people who are covered and choose to automatically re-enroll won't get counted until open enrollment closes. New signups during last year's open enrollment...

Report Claims Johnson & Johnson Knew Baby Powder Contained Asbestos for Decades

Johnson & Johnson, facing potential liability in the billions of dollars in claims its talcum powder causes cancer, may have known about the health risks of t...

BREAKING NOW: Federal Judge Rules 'ENTIRE' Affordable Care Act Unconstitutional

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton , who spearheaded the lawsuit , said the ruling "will give President Trump and Congress the opportunity to replace the fail...

Fentanyl deadliest drug in America, CDC confirms

Cocaine and heroin remain the street drugs of choice, but more overdose deaths involve fentanyl , either mixed with those narcotics or taken alone. The findi...

Johnson & Johnson reportedly knew about asbestos in baby powder, shares plunge

The report comes as the company faces thousands of lawsuits claiming that its talc products caused cancer. The company's outside litigation counsel Peter Bick...

Having a first baby at 35 raises breast cancer risk for decades

However, "that really comes from what breast cancer looks like for women in their 60s and beyond", said Hazel B. Nichols, PhD, a researcher at the Universit...

New Study Reveals Puzzles and Brain Training May Not ‘Stop Mental Decline’

However, despite their findings, the researchers, again, remind readers that intellectual activities could provide people with a higher cognitive point from whi...

Google Fit Gets Improved Tracking Widgets, Breathing Assistance

Coming as early as this week, Google Fit will feature two home screen widgets that will allow users to glance at their health data more easily. But starting w...

Supreme Court won't review state efforts to end funding for Planned Parenthood

Only three did: Justices Clarence Thomas , Samuel Alito , and Neil Gorsuch . The news on Monday may come as some consolation to abortion rights advocates w...

Say no to raw cookie dough — CDC issues warning

Do not taste or eat any raw dough or batter, whether for cookies, tortillas, pizza, biscuits, pancakes, or crafts made with raw flour, such as homemade play dou...

Brain-eating amoebas kill woman who used tap water in neti pot

A CT scan revealed what physicians initially thought was a tumor in the woman's brain. Researchers believe that she contracted the amoeba while using the neti...

‘Weak and Subservient’: Doomed Tuesday UK Brexit Vote is On

Setting out his Brexit plan, Mr Johnson said resolving the Irish border issue should be postponed so it forms part of the talks on a future trade deal and the...

Health Department urges Vermonters get flu shots

The vaccine's effectiveness depends on multiple factors - including the amount of time between vaccination and exposure to the disease, your age and health stat...

Doctors say amoebas in tap water turned woman's brain into 'bloody mush'

Over the next several days, additional scans revealed that whatever was happening in her brain was getting worse. The woman, doctors realized, had been infe...

Man coughs up blood clot in shape of a lung

The New England Journal of Medicine posted a story about a 36-year-old man who had a blot clot in his lung and when it came out, it looked just like part of hi...

World's first baby born via womb transplant from deceased donor

The medical team at the Hospital das Clinicas holding the first baby to be born following a uterus transplant from a deceased donor. Deceased donor ute...

Karnataka villagers empty lake after HIV positive woman jumps into it

According to locals on November 29, the body of a 36-year-old woman infected with HIV was found floating in the lake. Villagers refused to drink the water an...

Ocasio-Cortez Promises $15-an-hour Intern "Living Wage" (Math & Economics Disagree)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has promised to pay her Congressional interns at least $15 an hour. She said many of them told her that they were congressional staffer...

New Blood Test Can Spot Cancer in 10 Minutes

If the water stays pink this would suggest you have cancer , although the test can not detect what type or how advanced the disease is. "Now, people only...

First Baby Born From Uterus of Deceased Donor

The donor had died of subarachnoid haemorrhage - a type of stroke involving bleeding on the surface of the brain. Since then, he has participated in a live ...

Apple Watch update enables ECG functionality

Apple Watch Series 4 devices all have built-in electrodes that can measure electrocardiograms, or ECGs. It is estimated that AFib can affect up to two perce...

Infants' Ibuprofen sold at Walmart, CVS, Family Dollar recalled over dosage concerns

If infants ingest too much ibuprofen, they can suffer from nausea, vomiting, gastric pain or diarrhea. In a statement , the company said there is a "remote p...

First baby born using uterus transplants from dead donor

The early embryos produced by IVF treatment had been frozen and stored four months before the transplant . The 45-year-old donor died of a stroke. With a l...

Fairfield Health Dept. Offers Flu Clinic, Dec. 8

People can find out where flu shots are available at texasflu.org or by contacting their health care provider. People who have not had their influenza vacci...

10 minute cancer test on the horizon

The tiny molecules that decorate DNA, called methyl groups, are altered dramatically by cancer. Trials were conducted on 200 samples including breast, lymphom...

Unilever to buy GSK consumer healthcare brands

With this proposed strategic merger with GSK Consumer Healthcare India (GSK CH), HUL plans to expand its portfolio with great brands into a new category cater...

Worldwide Donor Hunt to Help Girl with Rare Blood Type

But OneBlood , the lab facilitating the search, said in a press release that she needs more blood than the three donors have given for her treatment. 'This w...

Maine CDC encourages people to get tested on World AIDS Day

The aim of the event was to sensitize people from all walks of life on HIV/AIDS and motivate them to come forward and get tested to know about their HIV statu...

Another year, another decrease in life expectancy in the US

Life expectancy in the USA has fallen once again, following a trend that began in 2015 when the average expected life span of a baby born in the United States t...

Chinese scientist pauses 'gene-edited baby' trial after outcry

He was scheduled to speak again today but left. He Jiankui caused outrage earlier this week when he told a genome summit he had altered the genes of twin b...