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Veritas Capital, Elliott clinch $5.5 billion acquisition of Athenahealth

The purchase price represents a premium of approximately 12% over the company's closing stock price on November 9, the last trading day prior to today's annou...

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The federal government has released its 2nd Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans . But just 26% of men, 19% of women and 20% of adolescents are meeting...

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The world Health Organization warned Monday 12 November against the rise in risky, the consumption of antibiotics in some countries, but also under-consumpti...

U.S. anxious by Ebola outbreak in Congo conflict zone

This is the 10th Ebola outbreak in the country. He said no other epidemic has been as complex. "Since their arrival in the region, the response teams have f...

Briton dies of rabies after getting bitten by a cat in Morocco

No humans have contracted rabies in the United Kingdom from animals - other than bats - for over 100 years, PHE said, adding that the disease does not circulate...

Rams' Andrew Whitworth donating paycheck to Thousand Oaks victims

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Breast screening linked to 60% lower risk of breast cancer death

She reiterated that cancer is not the end of life, and advised women on the importance of early detection and treatment. The objective of screening programs...

Google to bring on Geisinger's CEO to direct its healthcare efforts

Google's forays into healthcare have included products such as Google Fit and Google Nest. Here's your money quote: "If data is the oil of modern day, Geisinge...

Vaccine Offers Hope for Bread-Loving Celiac Sufferers

If it is approved, Nexvax2 could give hope to the almost 1 percent of Americans who have celiac disease and now have no treatment option other than following ...

CALIFORNIA CHAOS: San Francisco Voters Pass 'Homeless Tax' on Large Corporations

Let the city come together in Love for those who need it most! The New York Post reported the money will be used for new permanent and short-term shelters, ...

Antibiotic resistant superbugs 'will kill 90,000 Britons by 2050'

Tim Jinks, head of the Wellcome Trust's drug-resistant infections priority programme, said: "This new OECD report offers important insight into how simple...

Salmonella outbreak in turkey turns deadly

Seventeen of those cases happened in the tri-state area with eight people sickened in New Jersey, another eight sickened in Pennsylvania, and one person sickene...

Arizona Flu Season Starts: Get Your Shot, Experts Advise

One is that the flu vaccine can give you the flu. Every flu season, there are predominant strains of the virus, so medical experts predict which strains will be...

First confirmed case of Influenza A in Windsor-Essex this flu season

Working in unison with the World Health Organization, the CDC reported that Southern Hemisphere influenza activity during the 2018 season (which can be pred...

Selena Gomez checks out of rehab

But here comes some good news for the ardent fans of the former Disney star. Selena Gomez is said to be now in better health and would be better since his h...

Smoking, diabetes raise heart attack risk more in women, study finds

And women with high blood pressure were almost twice as likely to suffer a heart attack than men with the same condition. The researchers explained that women...

Superbugs could kill up to 90000 in three decades

That claim is backed up by the World Health Organisation , which says that unless something is done a post-antibiotic era could arrive this century whereby bas...

CVS Earnings, Merger With Aetna Look Good to Investors

CVS Health shares have climbed almost 2 percent since the beginning of the year, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index has increased slightly more than 2 perce...

Conjoined twins: Australian surgeons try to separate Bhutanese girls

Nima and Dawa face each other, and can not sit down together. The girls were known to share a liver which would complicate the surgery. They were brought to...

Female smokers 'face greater heart risk'

The study shows that heart attack risk associated with high blood pressure is 83 percent higher for women than men; with smoking, 55 percent higher. and with Ty...

Drinking coffee may lower risk of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's

Ross Mancini. As a result, they have established for substances that trigger the development of neurodegenerative diseases that affect coffee is a strong roast ...

Arkansas Department Of Health Confirms 3 Cases Of Polio-Like Illness

Nearly all instances of AFM occur in children under 18-years-old. The website statement on this issue says, "CDC has tested many different specimens from AFM ...

'She Has Earned This': Trump Praises Pelosi, Warns Democrats

Working on just a few hours' sleep after a heavy final day of campaigning, Trump spent much of Tuesday on the phone, checking in with friends and advisers, talk...

Democrats seize US House in rebuke to Trump

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is is likely to lead Democrats in the House next year, has also expressed a willingness to work with Trump on the issue. "...

Even Single Energy Drink Could Hurt Blood Vessel Function

During the study , researchers at the McGovern Medical School examined the health status of 44 non-smoking young and healthy medical students in their 20s. Dur...

Call for 79% health tax on sausages and bacon

We estimated that in 2020, there will be 2.4m deaths attributable to red and processed meat consumption globally, as well as US$285 billion in costs related to ...

Thousands of children are having their tonsils removed ‘unnecessarily’

They also found that many children who might benefit from having their tonsils removed are not having the surgical procedure. "It's hugely important to regula...

MA pols wary of new Rx opioid

Preliminary figures show more than 72,000 people died in 2017 from drug overdoses across the country. But Dsuvia's approval comes amid controversy, with an ...

Why You Shouldn't Spank, According To Pediatrics

In October, the academy published guidelines on how pediatricians and parents can navigate the health concerns for transgender and "gender-diverse" youth as wel...