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Sea lice invade Pensacola beaches

Those affected experience an itchy, irritated rash - often with bumps and welts. Lifeguards in the panhandle issued a warning on Tuesday about the marine life. ...

Mum shares sickening photo to warn of common playground mistake

Charles Jennissen, said in a statement. She told MailOnline: 'I always see parents riding down the slide with their children at the playground. "When we got...

Flight attendants get more uterine, thyroid and other cancers

A flight attendant helps a passenger. Some 3.4 percent of the women who flew for a living had breast cancer , compared to 2.3 per cent in the general populat...

GE to spin off healthcare business, divest oil services

Flannery said putting GE Healthcare and Baker Hughes outside its current structure will benefit all parties. The company said it will be able to reduce its ...

Airline crews at greater risk of cancer says study

Flight attendants had a 51% higher prevalence of breast cancers , more than two-fold higher prevalence of melanoma and four-fold greater prevalence of non mela...

FDA Approves First Drug Derived From Marijuana Plant

GW Pharmaceuticals has monitored Epidiolex' effects on over 500 children and adults who are afflicted with seizure conditions that are hard to treat using tr...

Hit-and-run driver plows into New Tampa family on bike ride

He remains in jail on charges of premeditated murder, leaving the scene of a crash with death, leaving the scene of a crash with serious bodily injury and two c...

GW Pharma's Epidiolex Becomes First Cannabis-Based FDA-Approved Drug (NASDAQ:GWPH)

The British drugmaker studied the drug in more than 500 patients with hard-to-treat seizures, overcoming numerous legal hurdles to conducting research with cann...

Walgreens Apologizes Over Handling of Pregnancy Rx

Mone, who was roughly two months pregnant, explained that during a doctor's appointment on Tuesday she learned that her unborn baby had stopped developing. Arte...

Arizona woman says Walgreens pharmacist denied her prescription to end pregnancy

She said the doctor then gave her two options, to either undergo surgery or take prescription medication to end the pregnancy. "I can't give you this one, '" sh...

Ohio’s Health Department declares state-wide Hepatitis A outbreak

Other counties with at least one reported case of the infection include Wood, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca, Putnam and Wyandot. Summit County had one, and none were...

The Keystone virus is now infecting human beings

The virus has been known since the 1960's, but for the first time, University of Florida researchers said a human contracted it. The report was published Ju...

The Keystone virus is now infecting human beings

The virus has been known since the 1960's, but for the first time, University of Florida researchers said a human contracted it. The report was published Ju...

Laser Pointer Burns Hole In A 9-Year-Old’s Eye

The formation of cataract results in blurred vision by making the clear lenses of the eyes cloudy. The victim's father reportedly purchased the laser pointe...

International Yoga Day: Bollywood celebs show off poses

Shilpa Shetty, on the other hand, taught us how to do Pranayama . Shilpa is the fitness icon for many women across the country. She combines different workou...

Unjustified medication shortened 456 lives in a British hospital, report says

Relatives said they hoped it would end their "harrowing" wait for answers. The number is available on the Gosport Independent Panel website and DHSC website. ...

Kate Spade Foundation donating $1 million for mental health awareness

Bakst also highlighted the support fans of the brand have provided following Spade's passing, "The outpouring of love on social media and in our shops from cust...

Are herpes and Alzheimer's linked?

Joel Dudley , a geneticist and genomic scientist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and senior author of the new paper , had not meant to investiga...

Canada to legalize cannabis October 17, Trudeau says

JZSYesterday the Canadian Senate approved a marijuana legalization bill that had already passed the House of Commons, which means Canada is about to become ...

Czech epidemiologists detect mosquitoes infected with deadly virus

Additional information about West Nile virus can be found on the IDPH website . West Nile can also be spread to animals like birds and horses. According to...

Trump To Sign Executive Order To End Family Separation At Border

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who in the past has praised Mr Trump's policy of curbing immigration, told French TV that she disagreed with splitting ch...

Trump's new health insurance option offers lower premiums

The U.S. Labor Department on Tuesday said it plans to issue a rule that would let more small firms and individuals form association health plans, or AHPs. In ...

International Yoga Day 2018

Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs yoga on International Yoga Day in Dehradun in Uttarakhand, India June 21, 2018. #07:05 AM: Yoga India's gift to the ...

Smoking Hits New Low; About 14% of U.S. Adults Light Up

Michael Cummings, a tobacco researcher at Medical University of SC, according to the Associated Press. The prevalence of current cigarette smoking among adu...

What is the relationship between alcohol and cancer?

While lifetime never drinkers and infrequent drinkers as well as heavy and very heavy drinkers had increased combined risk of mortality or developing cancer. Be...

CVS Health will now deliver prescriptions to your home

The firm owned 110,110 shares of the pharmacy operator's stock after acquiring an additional 104,471 shares during the period. Walter & Keenan Financial Consult...

PM calls for 10-year plan to spend cash — NHS funding

What do the experts think? The health service in Northern Ireland is set to benefit from around £600m extra funding a year in real terms by 2023. Jeremy Hu...

How one sick boy could end UK's medical marijuana ban

His mother, Charlotte Caldwell, has called for the laws governing medicinal marijuana use in Britain to be liberalized, saying cannabis oil is the only treatm...

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase appoint CEO for healthcare venture

The still-unnamed joint healthcare initiative spearheaded by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase has found its CEO . In both his writing and his s...

Odisha soaks in Yoga Day celebration

He said: "Yoga is lovely because it is ancient yet modern, it is constant yet evolving". Speaking at the event, PM Modi briefed the benefits of yoga and said wh...