
Medical
- United Kingdom health secretary self-isolating after coronavirus contact
- Cut in supplies of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines to hit Canada, Europe too
- Los Angeles Becomes First County to Top 1 Million COVID-19 Cases
- Britain reports record 1,610 daily Covid deaths
MORE NEWS THIS CATEGORIES
West Nile Virus found in Grand Forks
John Bernstrom with the City of Grand Forks says the city's Mosquito Control operates as if the virus is always present and therefore will not be making major c...
Study finds too many colorectal cancers are found too late
About 26,800 Canadians were diagnosed with colorectal cancer and 9,400 died as a result of the disease in 2017, according to the society, representing 12 per ce...
Boston: Massachusetts Sues Opioid Maker, Executives Over Drug Crisis
Healy alleges in the complaint that through misleading prescribers and consumers, Purdue Pharma helped contribute to the opioid overdose epidemic. The lawsu...
High blood pressure linked to dementia
Participants in the study developed dementia at the average age of 75. "This will have important implications for policy guidelines, which now only use the gene...
Americans Eat Too Much Free Food at Work
More: Toddlers are consuming way too much sugar . Stephen Onufrak, epidemiologist at the CDC and lead author of the study said that this is the first na...
MI rival may buy Boston Scientific
BSX has been the subject of several other reports . Boston Scientific had 20 analyst reports since January 3, 2018 according to SRatingsIntel. During the pa...
Don’t Be Afraid to Talk With Someone
The suicide rate among young teen girls is now almost triple what it was in 2000. The rate of suicide in the United States increased 28 percent from 1999 to...
Your medications could be causing depression
Access to the full study was unavailable, but within its abstract, the researchers say they found that "the estimated prevalence of depression was 15 percent ...
Venezuela Records First Case of Polio in 30 Years
Polio, which can only be prevented through immunization, has been found again in a Venezuelan child according to the Pan-American Health Organization ( PAHO ). ...
U.S. toddlers are consuming too much sugar finds study
This is close to, or more than, the amount of sugar recommended by AHA for adult women (six teaspoons) and men (nine teaspoons). The researchers pointed out...
Elmore County child recovering from plague
Christine Myron, a spokeswoman for the Central District Health Department, said Wednesday that the child, who has not been publicly identified, is back home i...
New York Blood Center declares blood emergency across Tri
The American Red Cross is asking for help in its "Missing Types" campaign . "Imagine life without the letters A, B and O, let alone scrabble!" said Mlambo. "...
Are you really you when you're 'hangry'?
A study has investigated the causes of hanger. "We've all felt hungry, recognized the unpleasantness as hunger, had a sandwich and felt better", writes study ...
WeissLaw LLP Investigates Envision Healthcare Holdings Inc. Acquisition
The company has a market capitalization of $5.29 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.00, a P/E/G ratio of 0.99 and a beta of 0.46. The stock has curren...
Sugar consumption by toddlers exceeds adult recommendations
But by the time children reached between 1 and 2 years old, nearly all of the sugar those children got was added . The researchers analyzed data from 800 inf...
Analysts at William Blair Give Envision Healthcare (NYSE:EVHC) a Downgrade
William Blair downgraded shares of Envision Healthcare from an "outperform" rating to a "market perform" rating in a report on Monday. Arizona State Retiremen...
Polio re-emerges in Venezuela almost 30 years after eradication
Delta Amacuro, the state where the case of polio was discovered, is home to the Warao communities, an indigenous group that lives in riverside huts on Venezuela...
Mother warning others of dangers of ticks after daughter suffers tick paralysis
Kailyn was taken to University of Mississippi Medical Centre and was able to walk out of hospital after receiving treatment. Symptoms usually begin to show abou...
Kumaraswamy responds to PMs fitness challenge, says more concerned about Karnataka development
In a separate message, he nominated Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, table tennis player and 2018 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Manika Batra and the...
Charlotte Caldwell's medicinal cannabis oil for son is confiscated at Heathrow
Mother and son, who live in the British province of Northern Ireland, flew to Canada over the weekend to get some more of the medication, but it was seized when...
Kitchen tea towels can cause food poisoning
If you wipe a floor spillage with a tea towel, the advice is to put that in the wash instead of then using it to dry cutlery. Kitchen towels can harbor pathog...
Nipah contained, says minister
An all-party meet, held under the stewardship of Health Minister K K Shylaja on Sunday, has chose to honour appropriately those who made all out efforts to tr...
Scientists shocked by mysterious deaths of ancient trees
A team of researchers led by scientists from Babes-Bolyai University in Romania has been regularly visiting Africa's oldest baobab specimens, measuring their di...
Tick Bites 5-Year-Old Girl’s Head; She Woke Up Paralyzed
The girl had been at a T-ball game the night before and was "perfectly fine", Griffin told Mississippi News Now . Jessica Griffin posted to Facebook on Wed...
Charlotte Caldwell considering taking son Billy back to Canada
British mother who says her son needs cannabis oil to prevent unsafe epileptic seizures is pleading with British officials to return the supply she recently obt...
Erectile dysfunction linked to increased risk of heart disease
The findings, derived from almost 2,000 men, back up an array of evidence in recent years that has shown a link between ED and heart disease . This study fou...
Do you use kitchen towels? They can cause food poisoning
Out of these 49 samples positive for bacterial growth, 36.7 per cent grew coliforms, 36.7 per cent Enterococcus spp and 14.3 per cent S. aureus. The researc...
Pre-cut melon cause of multistate salmonella outbreak — CDC
If the UPC code is still on the product, consumers can check the number on the U.S. Food & Drug Administration website . The company has since issued a recall ...
Traditional Congolese Healers, Key to Fight Ebola in DRC
Motorcycles are only now arriving and health workers are sleeping 15 to 20 people to a tent. World Health Organization is now entering a new phase in which ...
PG Relay for Life walking on new grounds this weekend
You can have the best family and friends in the world but they don't really get it. "We're proud to say that, to date (Monday, June 4), we have raised $56,000...
LATEST NEWS
- Joe Biden chooses transgender Rachel Levine for assistant secretary of health
- Highly Contagious UK COVID-19 Variant May Become Dominant Strain by March
- South African virus strain more contagious, says expert
- 6 more COVID-19 deaths, 309 new cases reported in Sask.
- Grundy County adds 6 new cases of COVID-19
- COVID-19 found in Michigan
- Los Angeles County Surpasses 1M COVID Cases
- Kono to handle coordination of coronavirus vaccinations
- Canada: each passenger of 2 planes potentially exposed to COVID-19
- 118 new cases identified as death toll increases by four