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Texas Parents Consider Divorce to Afford Child's Health Care

People get divorced for plenty of reasons, but usually it's over issues that involve the couple's inability to happily stay together. It was nine years ago th...

Common heart drugs recalled due to contamination with possible carcinogen

This recall has been issued following indications of the presence of an undesirable impurity N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) in the valsartan active ingredient, w...

The 'stealth' STI that makes women infertile

For women, it can cause pain or bleeding during sex, burning sensation when urinating. According to the experts, the disease can be mistaken for chlamydia and...

Man could lose limbs from flesh-eating bacteria

The Centers for Disease Control only sees in about 200 such cases nationally each year. Some cases require limb amputations, and 15% to 30% of cases are fatal ...

How to get baby to sleep more: Feed solids early, study suggests

The study, by King's College, London, and St George's, University of London, surveyed 1,303 three-month-olds, and divided them into two groups. However he als...

Administration Suspends Billions in Payoffs to Obamacare Insurers | Trending

Trump administration officials said they were forced to make the cuts after a federal court in New Mexico ruled in February that the formula for calculating r...

Precautionary recall of some Valsartan blood pressure and heart medicines

A recall is underway across Europe following recent and emerging information that an impurity has been identified as part of the manufacturing process in a vals...

Food firm with King's Lynn factory recalls products over listeria contamination fear

A statement issued by the company last Wednesday said it had chosen to recall products from the plant in response to a decision by Hungary's Food Safety Agency....

Amid jubilation, four more boys rescued from flooded Thai cave

They will join four other boys who were rescued on Sunday. Five people remain trapped in the cave, and according to the New York Times , the plan is to rescu...

Trump Administration To Stop Paying Some Obamacare Bills

Citing conflicting federal court decisions on the program, the CMS said it can not collect or disburse funds under the risk-adjustment program. The CMS, which n...

Trump to announce Supreme Court nominee

He expressed renewed interest in Hardiman - the runner-up when Trump nominated Gorsuch, said two people with knowledge of his thinking who were not authorized t...

Experimental HIV Vaccine Promising in Early Trial

More than three decades after the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ), scientists are still working to develop a preventative vaccine ...

Polar Fitness Trackers Reveal All About Military Personnel

In a similar incident, Strava found itself in hot water in January: it released a heat map showing the fitness activity of its users from around the world, wh...

West Nile virus found in Springfield mosquitos

The department on Thursday told the city that collections from Worcester and Auburn carried West Nile Virus . Mosquito pools that tested positive for WNV wer...

Del Monte 'small veggie trays' result in 212 confirmed parasite cases

However, illnesses that began after May 24 might not have been reported yet because of the time it takes between when a person becomes ill and when the illness ...

People Sickened From Parasite Outbreak Linked to Del Monte Vegetables

The recalled products were sold in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, but so far only consumers in four states - Iowa, Michigan, Mi...

European Canines Replaced Ancient New World's Breeds

The team collected genetic information from 71 ancient dog remains from the Americas and found that early dogs arrived alongside people who eventually s...

Are UK gulls drunk?

Some of the birds were found unconscious, and from them smelled of alcohol . The RSPCA is now contacting the local distilleries, breweries and other alcoh...

Trump administration halts billions of dollars of ACA payments

CMS has made no public statements regarding policy changes for the risk-adjustment payments as of yet. Insurers say, the timing of the decision could mean highe...

'I'm walking!' Four-year-old girl with cerebral palsy takes first steps

Her mother, Ann Tisdale, noticed that the youngest of the family's three children had tightness in her legs and was skipping typical infant milestones. Seven we...

Nuts may boost male fertility, finds study

He added that a potential flaw in the study was that it was impossible to eat nuts "blind". In its analysis the study recorded not just sperm parameters (acco...

People possibly exposed to tuberculosis at Johns Hopkins

The sample was "equivalent to a few drops", according to Dr. Landon King , executive vice dean of the school. The two buildings, which are connected by an en...

Men's affinity to luxury products

In the study , called "Single-dose testosterone administration increases men's preference for status goods", researchers measured men's desire for status brands...

Toddler cancer survivor serves as flower girl to bone marrow donor

When Hayden Hatfield Ryals got a call that a baby girl with cancer was a match for her bone marrow, Ryals knew she had to save her. While the Savren-McCormick...

Measles spreads in Brazil after cases come from Venezuela

PHE says the rise in cases is largely down to measles being brought back by individuals travelling to and from Europe where there are large outbreaks - a situ...

HPV test better than Pap smear at detecting cancerous cervical changes

Generally speaking, women who had the Pap smear were more than twice as likely to have abnormal cells; HPV testing resulted in 22 cases whereas the Pap smear ...

Long work hours may hike women's diabetes risk by 70%

Participants' weekly working (paid and unpaid) hours were grouped into four-time bands: 15-34 hours; 35-40 hours; 41-44 hours; and 45 or more hours, and a ran...

Researchers say brain stimulation could reduce violent crime

As the number of cases related to violence, physical and sexual assault continues to rise around the globe, an worldwide team of researchers has shown there m...

An aspirin a day may keep dementia away, study finds

Rob Howard, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at University College London, added: "Clinical trials of aspirin have already been performed in patients with Alzhe...

Humane Society Sees Increase in Strays During Fourth of July Holiday

State Fire Marshal Jim Greeson is reminding Hoosiers to be aware of fireworks laws while celebrating the Fourth of July this year . "We work with the firew...