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Leana Wen out as Planned Parenthood president

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Also, among those in the highest genetic risk group, of individuals who led healthy lifestyles only around 1% developed dementia when compared to individual...

Biden proposes health law that improves, builds on ACA

Biden's proposal includes creating a government-run insurance policy for people to choose over private insurance. Mr. Biden raised concerns that Medicare...

Pastor confirmed with Ebola as disease spreads in Democratic Republic of Congo

The pastor had traveled to Goma by bus on Sunday. The pastor began showing signs of illness on July 9 when he was still in Butembo . On Friday, he took a b...

Trump Administration Withdraws Proposed Rule to Block Rebates

The paper noted that "evidence on drug pricing calls for caution and calm". Despite reports of conflict between the two top drug pricing advisers, Grogan...

USA to improve kidney health with more transplants, home dialysis

Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Secretary shall select a payment model to test innovations in compensation for providers of kidney care services b...

Sugary drink consumption increases cancer risk, research suggests

Over that time, almost 2,200 cases of cancer were diagnosed, including 693 breast cancers. But they said their findings showed an association and could not ...

Judges grill Obamacare defenders over individual mandate

A host of ACA provisions would be eliminated, including: "protections for people with pre-existing conditions, subsidies to make individual health insurance mor...

Boys will be given HPV jab from September

Across the United Kingdom, boys will receive their first dose aged 12 to 13 - year eight for those in England and Wales - with a follow-up dose six months to tw...

Appeals court panel grills Democratic defenders on constitutionality of Obamacare

Around 400,000 are on Medicaid through the Medicaid expansion granted under the law. That was down only slightly from the 11.8 million consumers who signed up...

Latest 'Obamacare' Court Battle Plays out in New Orleans

House to explain why the Affordable Care Act remains valid. The Democratic lawyers fighting to preserve the law argued that the Republican Congress had trie...

Kamala Harris Spox: Biden 'Seems to Stand by His Opposition to Busing'

Her spokesman has already revealed she does support the same busing she slammed Biden for during last week's debate - and that blasting of the vice presiden...

Contact with some pet treats can give people salmonella

Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water after handling pet food or treats. Infected animals can also shed Salmonella through their feces and saliva, sp...

University of Nebraska Medical Center announces HIV research breakthrough

Once inside those reservoirs, the nanocrystals slowly dissolve, releasing ART into the hardest-to-access spots over a longer period of time. "We have to mak...

Seattle Children's Hospital says fungus killed 1, infected 5 more

Bernal said those who became ill were more susceptible to infection due to the procedures they had done at the hospital. One died because of it. The hospita...

CDC Issues Warning About Fecal Parasite In Swimming Pools

And, Miami-Dade has the second-most 2019 cases of cryptosporidiosis in Florida, according to the Florida Department of Health's Reportable Diseases Frequency ...

Mosquito Alert: First Case Of West Nile Virus Reported In New Jersey

Health officials in Marion and Hamilton counties said Tuesday they've found such mosquitoes for the first time this year. The North Dakota Department of Healt...

Summertime parasite outbreaks have been on the rise since 2009, CDC says

Most germs are killed within minutes by common pool disinfectants like chlorine or bromine, but Crypto is a germ that can survive in properly chlorinated water ...

A Florida woman dies after surgeries to cure her flesh-eating bacteria infection

Lynn Fleming slipped in a small underwater depression when she was taking a stroll with her family in in the west coast of Florida, US. On Sunday, her leg had b...

Kamala Harris backs single-payer health care, then backtracks

Meanwhile, despite the fact that Medicare and Medicaid pay for the majority of all hospital services, overall hospital margins remain strong , averaging 8 ...

U.S. Democrat Harris clarifies: she won't ban private health insurance

Harris had the defining moment of the night, calling Biden out for voting against federal busing laws to desegregate schools. The California Democrat raised h...

Some insulin pumps vulnerable to hacking, FDA warns amid recall

Medtronic can't update the MiniMed 508 and Paradigm insulin pumps well enough with any software or patch to address the devices' risks, the FDA says. "While w...

Girl contracted flesh-eating bacteria while on vacation in Florida

Brown thinks Kylei had a wound on her lower leg after she hurt herself on a skateboard before the family left for Florida . "Things started to deteriorate ra...

Trump to order hospitals to be transparent about healthcare costs

People have no idea how big it is. If people are able to shop around for the most cost-effective health care plan, prices will drop, the order assumes. "(P) ubl...

Province encourages public to get involved with HIV Testing Day

In Michigan, approximately 18,950 people are living with HIV, and 14 percent are not aware of their positive status. According to the Public Health Agency of Ca...

Anticholinergics Increase Dementia Risk in Middle-Aged, Older Adults

The study had some limitations, including that some patients may not have taken their prescribed medication as directed, so anticholinergic exposure levels coul...

Home, community care continue as super-agency Ontario Health takes shape

None of the impacted positions provide direct patient care. The Ford government is laying off 416 people in the Ontario public service as it overhauls the pro...

People in UK trust vaccines more than their European neighbours

Only sixty-one percent of Icelanders agree that vaccines are safe, while 97 percent of them agree they are effective, and 99 percent agree they are important fo...

Phone use causing horns to grow on young people's skulls, study believes

Young people may be developing horn-like bumps on their skulls due to the extended use of technology like smartphones and tablets, according to a study publi...

Greece Tourists Warned Against Mosquitos Amid West Nile Virus

Tourists to Greece have been advised to consider preventative measures to minimise exposure to mosquitos due to an outbreak of West Nile virus. With the count...

Horns grow on young peoples’ heads due to gadget use

The effect - known as enlarged external occipital protuberance - used to be so uncommon, Sayers said, that one of its early observers, toward the end of the 19t...

E-cigarette explodes in Utah teenager's mouth, breaks jaw, knocks out teeth

According to FEMA , the 38-year-old's death was the first in the US to be caused by an e-cigarette. It remains unclear what type of e-cigarette was involved ...

Boston Children's Hospital Ranked No. 1 in the Country Again

News' " honor roll " was Columbus' Nationwide Children's Hospital, which ranked No. 7. "I am so thankful for our team's dedication to providing excellent care...

Reprieve As Suspected Kericho Ebola Case Tests Negative

She justified this warning by "the important interactions between the populations of the two countries via official borders or other unofficial channels". "We h...

World Health Organization emergency panel to consider declaring Ebola outbreak an worldwide threat

While Uganda is well prepared to handle this outbreak in the country, as long as the disease continues to spread in the DRC , we will continue to see cases c...