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Increased risk of West Nile Virus in parts of Kansas

Steps to avoid contracting West Nile include using insect repellent with DEET, wearing long-sleeved, light coloured shirts, trousers and a hat while doing activ...

CVS pharmacist fired after refusing to fill transgender woman's hormone prescription

Hall said she reached out to the CVS corporate office multiple times, but no one ever addressed her concerns. On Thursday, Hall said she chose to file a complai...

Bayer to stop sales of Essure birth control device tied to injuries

Bayer said in a statement that the decision was not related to safety concerns. "This decision is based on a decline in USA sales of Essure in recent years and ...

WashPost: First Virginia Resident Dies From Flesh-Eating Vibrio

A Virginia resident has died after becoming infected with a flesh-eating Vibrio bacteria , the first such fatality this year, The Washington Post reported . T...

Diabetic women at greater risk of cancer than men with condition

It claims that diabetes' diagnosis places a person at a risk of various types of cancer. The findings of the study, conducted by The George Institute for Glo...

Global fight against AIDS is at 'precarious point'

This helped boost the number of people living with the virus from 36.3 million in 2016 to 36.9 million a year ago. "We are not moving at the pace we had set our...

Minnesotans sickened by salmonella from raw turkey

The issue has not yet been linked to a specific brand or product. The CDC isn't advising that sellers recall turkey products or that customers avoid eating turk...

Trump meets with Pfizer CEO amid drug pricing campaign

The move prompted Pfizer to defer its increases until the end of the year and Novartis to commit to not increasing prices for the rest of the year . Novarti...

California ‘Obamacare’ premiums to rise 8.7 percent in 2019 | Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Lee attributed California's smaller increases to healthy competition among plans and aggressive marketing efforts to encourage people to buy coverage, ensuring ...

Pharmacist refuses to fill transgender woman's hormone therapy prescription

A transgender woman is speaking out after she said a CVS pharmacist denied her hormone prescription . The national ACLU site, which also published the sam...

Mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus discovered in St. Louis County

North Carolina's first death and first confirmed case of West Nile virus in 2018 happened in Cumberland County, where an elderly person contracted the illness, ...

Woman Dies After Butt Enlargement Surgery

Lilian Calixito, 46, from a neighborhood in Cuiaba in central Brazil, went to Furtado's apartment in a neighborhood of Barra de Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro to ge...

Australian scientists develop ‘world first’ melanoma blood test, allowing early detection

Because it can be hard to spot, considering some people have hundreds of moles, a blood test that can detect it sooner could be the difference between life and ...

Eating Dinner Early Might Reduce Cancer Risk

People who ate their evening meal before 9pm or waited two hours after eating before going to sleep were found to have a 20 per cent reduced risk of cancer comp...

HPV jab 'should be offered to boys'

The term applies to a large group of viruses which are caught through any kind of sexual contact. The Irish Cancer Society has welcomed the recommendation by ...

Your Earliest Memories May Be False

Shazia Akhtar , a researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bradford . These first memories are likely false, the researchers said. Fro...

World’s oldest bread found at prehistoric site in Jordan

The site of Shubayqa and one of the fireplaces, the oldest one, where the bread-like remains were discovered. To make the bread , the Natufians likely began ...

Hot dogs and other cured meats may cause mania, new study finds

Researchers initially suspected viruses in food could trigger episodes. The researchers then conducted a series of experiments on rats to better explain the...

MA among 26 states affected by salmonella outbreak linked to raw turkey

The agency said it has not identified a single source for this outbreak "at this time". Ninety people have gotten sick from raw turkey tainted with salmonell...

Liver disease deaths skyrocket among young adults

Liver cancer is much more prevalent in men than it is in women. Deaths from cirrhosis and liver cancer rose fastest in western and southern states. A disturb...

UnitedHealth Group (UNH) Issues FY18 Earnings Guidance

This repurchase authorization authorizes the healthcare conglomerate to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. UnitedHealth had 13 anal...

Get Ready for "Prerogative", Britney Spears' New Unisex Fragrance

The "Stronger" songstress has no objections to reuniting the entire cast, telling ET, "They would have to plan it". I would definitely show up. "With this campa...

NY Times: Trump Learned Extent of Russian Meddling Before Inaugural

Newt Gingrich, a staunch Republican ally whose wife Clarissa Gingrich is Trump's ambassador to the Vatican, called the Helsinki news conference the "most seriou...

Man dies after eating bad oyster in Florida

While infections are rare, people can contract the bacteria by eating contaminated raw shellfish, or by exposing open wounds such as cuts or scrapes to water. I...

FDA recalls heart and blood pressure medicines due to cancer-causing substance

The FDA said the reason the NDMA was in the medications is "thought to be related to changes in the way the active substances was manufactured". The recal...

Portillo's offering 2 hot dogs for $5 all week

Hwy 55 Burgers, Shakes & Fries: Get a hot dog for 99 cents on Wednesday, July 18, 2018, from 2-5 p.m. when you download the My Hwy 55 App by Wednesday, 7/18. Po...

Genetically Modified Babies Move A Step Closer To Reality In The UK

According to the report , editing human embryos, sperm, or eggs is "morally permissible" as long as the edit doesn't jeopardize the welfare of the future perso...

Teen Dies Of Nut Allergy After Mistakenly Eating Chips Ahoy Cookie

Since then, her mother has been sounding the alarm on social media, warning parents and anyone with allergies to beware three varieties of Chips Ahoy! brand coo...

How heart failure differs between the sexes

The research on heart failure -a chronic, progressive condition in which the heart muscle is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body's needs - also identif...

FDA recalls high blood pressure, heart failure medication due to cancer risk

Huahai has said it is unable to determine how much it will lose from the recall, but its own data shows that sales of valsartan, which is mostly sold to North A...