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Tell that to anyone who has had a severe or even a mild case of influenza. Glen Nowak, a UGA professor and director of the Center for Health & Risk Communicat...

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It ranks 27th among all states. A new report from the finds Missouri and Arkansas have some of the highest rates of lung cancer in the U.S. The American Lun...

World Health Organization to prequalify insulin to increase global treatment for diabetes

Living a healthy lifestyle is an essential prerequisite to managing and regulating blood sugar and diabetes. Hypoglycemia affects a person's movement and abil...

Turkey Threatens to Release ISIS Prisoners over EU Sanctions

Trump's warm welcome of the Turkish president came amid anger in the United States Congress about Ankara's offensive into Syria to drive out Kurdish forces,...

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Baker last week declared a public health emergency and banned the sale of all vaping products for four months. Two of the cases are confirmed vaping-associa...

DACA case ‘burden’ of uncertainty for VCU Dreamer

A second argument, he says, focuses on the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. Like them, hundreds of thousands of others "have been in the country for...

EU Approval of First Ebola Vaccine is Game Changer

As per the World Health Organisation, which declared Ebola a public health emergency of global concern, the recent outbreak in Congo caused by Ebola Zaire has...

Nigerian children died from pneumonia in 2018

Globally, Pneumonia accounts for more than 920,000 deaths among children under five years of age. "Every day, almost 2,200 children under the age of five die ...

NICE recommends first cannabis-based medicines for use on the NHS

The medicine is used to treat severe seizures for people with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome or Dravet syndrome - rare forms of epilepsy . The law was changed in ...

2 flu-related deaths confirmed in Nevada

The flu vaccine is also available and can be administered at local pharmacists. Officials for the Southern Nevada Health District say Clark County's only flu-...

Doctor accused of performing hysterectomies without consent

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President Trump to pursue higher sales age for e-cigarettes

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CDC May Have Found Possible Cause Of Deadly Vaping Illness

It's not known to cause harm when swallowed or applied to the skin, Schuchat said. During their press conference Friday, CDC officials unveiled the lab resu...

Google has solution job collecting overall health info

Per WSJ , Ascension is sharing complete patient health records, including lab results, diagnoses and hospitalization records - as well as patient names and dat...

UK Okays Cannabis Based Medicines for Epilepsy, MS

The campaign group End Our Pain have said the move is not far enough - leaving patients, for whom whole plant medical cannabis containing THC has "life-tran...

Father of black woman killed by white Texas officer dies

Saturday night at the Methodist Charlton Medical Center in Dallas. Marquis Jefferson suffered a cardiac arrest and was taken to the hospital Friday night, N...

Bevin Refuses to Concede Kentucky Gubernatorial Race, Citing Voting ‘Irregularities’

In the past three off-off year elections in Kentucky for governor (2007, 2011, 2015) turnout was hovering around 30 percent. And the third time that Democr...

Republican Leader Puts Jordan On House Intel Committee

Republicans have complained that the committees conducting the impeachment inquiry have held closed-door hearings with witnesses in a secure room, arguing tha...

READ: Testimony Of Fiona Hill, Ex-White House Russia Policy Official

House investigators are releasing key transcripts from days of closed-door interviews in the impeachment inquiry as they prepare for public sessions with witn...

County Urges Vaccination After First Flu-Related Death of the Season

Vaccines may also be available through your physician and pharmacies. For the week ending October 26, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services rep...

10 hospitalized after insulin administered instead of flu shots

Sellars, their director of communications. Police explained that numerous people from Jacquelyn House were transferred to Jane Phillips Healthcare facility, t...

‘Vaping illness’ definitively linked to Vitamin E in bootleg THC vapes

Federal health officials announced on Friday that they'd identified vitamin E acetate, an oil additive found in THC-based vape products, as a "very strong culpr...

Judge strikes down new Trump rule on religious objections

The judge's decision consolidated three lawsuits, including one filed by NY state and 22 other states and municipalities, as well as legal action brought by Pla...

Abbott discovers new strain of HIV

The new strain is a part of the same family of virus subtypes that have fueled the global HIV pandemic, according to Abbott Laboratories, which conducted the re...

Measles limits immune system's ability to fight off other infections, studies suggest

The hypothesis was that, somehow, a measles infection lowers the general efficacy of a person's immune system for a number of years after they recover from th...

UPS completes first residential drone deliveries from a CVS Pharmacy

UPS was the first company to get a Part 135 Standard certification from the FAA, which authorizes it to operate a 'drone airline'. UPS Chief Executive Office...

Too Much Screen Time May Be Stunting Toddlers' Brains

Scans done of these children revealed that those who were placed in front of a screen for more than one hour per day without their parents being involved had a ...

More than 4m high schoolers and 1m middle schoolers vape, study shows

That amounts to 5.3 million young users, compared with about 3.6 million previous year, despite federal law that prohibits sales to those under 18. A separate...

Judge Scraps 'Conscience' Rule Protecting Doctors Who Deny Care For Religious Reasons

Engelmayer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of NY vacated the rule entirely, just weeks before it was scheduled to take effect on November 2...

How Elizabeth Warren's Medicare For All Proposal Works

The nation's most powerful Democratic lawmaker said she is open to a conversation about Medicare for All and has allowed advocates to speak before various c...

Judge blocks Trump rule requiring prospective immigrants have health insurance

They said the policy would inflict irreparable harm on the plaintiffs, who are USA citizens sponsoring visas for family members overseas. Esther Sung, a senio...

Minnesota reports 1st flu death of season

Peterborough Public Health is reporting the first lab-confirmed case of seasonal influenza in the area, and is encouraging people to get a flu shot . It not on...

Warren Agrees Medicare-for-All Could Result in Major Job Losses

It marks a significant contrast with her rival Sen. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to a crowd outside the State House on Thursday. Warren projects t...

Why Students Should Get Flu Shots

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