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States report uptick in patients with flu symptoms

A market overview section in the report demonstrates the market trends and dynamics that contains the opportunities, deployment models, future roadmap, value ch...

Prices for hospitals’ standard services to be made public online in 2019

It allows patients to compare prices before seeking treatment. "We are just beginning on price transparency", Seema Verma, head of U.S. Centers for Medicare &...

Morgan Stanley Purchase 659975 Shares of CVS Health Corp (CVS)

Institutional Ownership/ Insider Ownership: CVS Health Corporation institutional ownership is held at 69.5% while insider ownership was 0.1%. Stocks with low...

More than 3,000 patients in NJ possibly exposed to HIV, hepatitis

No infections or illnesses have been reported so far, HealthPlus Surgery Center administrator Betty McCabe said in a statement. "Although the risk of infectio...

Tamil Nadu: Pregnant woman transfused with HIV-infected blood at govt hospital

The man had donated blood at the government hospital in his home town of Sivakasi in 2016, and had been found to be HIV-positive. When he informed the Sivakasi ...

New Jersey urges patients at facility to check for HIV infections

Those who received treatment at the HealthPlus Surgery Center in Saddle Brook town between January 2018 and September 7, 2018 have recently received disturbing ...

Vehicle crashes, gun injuries leading causes of death for children

The U.S. rate of motor vehicle deaths also exceeds the rate of other high-income countries in the report. Researchers used data from the Centers for Disease Con...

DHSS secretary releases statement on judge’s decision on Affordable Care Act

One note of concern is that the number of new customers this year was down by 15 percent compared with last year. Herring and a coalition of 17 attorneys gene...

Aerobic Exercise Might Help Older Adults with Thinking Problems

The study looked at people who had cognitive impairments without dementia, which is defined as having difficulty concentrating, making decisions, or remembering...

Toddler strangled to death using teething necklace, FDA issues warning

Be aware that the use of jewelry marketed for relieving teething pain or provide sensory stimulation to people with special needs can lead to serious injuries i...

First pediatric flu death of 2018-2019 season confirmed in MI

Last year, two children in MI died from flu-related complications. The national health agency recommends every person over the age of six months receive the a...

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., (NASDAQ: WBA)

This figure is found by taking the stock price and multiplying it by the total number of shares outstanding. The stocks has year to date performance of 0.92...

MI child dies from flu; 1st of the season

Two Michigan kids died a year ago from the flu. More than 79,000 deaths were attributed to the flu, 185 of which were children. Influenza claims the lives of ch...

Express Scripts Holding Co (NASDAQ:ESRX) Shares Sold by Accident Compensation Corp

Wolfe Research was of a view that HAL is Outperform in its latest report on October 10th, 2018. The firm has "Equal-Weight" rating by Barclays Capital given on ...

Study shows opioids offer little chronic pain relief

Prof. Jason Busse says research suggests opioids are of little benefit in treating non-cancer chronic pain for most people. This gives light to the common not...

New cervical cancer test 100% effective

Chennai stands fourth among the top registries in India with the highest incidence of cervical cancer in women, according to a report from the ICO HPV Inf...

CDC announces 2 additional cases of polio-like illness in MI

Two more cases of a paralyzing illness have been confirmed in MI, including one in Ottawa County. That brings the total of cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM)...

Cannabis exposure can alter DNA of sperm

The study showed that sperm concentration in the semen of non-marijuana users was about twice higher than those who smoke pot. Their sperm were compared to a se...

11-year-old girl's inoperable brain tumor disappears, baffling doctors

Despite there being no cure for the disease, Roxli's family made a decision to proceed with an 11-week course of radiation. "It is very rare, but when we se...

GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer agree £10bn healthcare merger

In addition, the joint venture is expected to be the first or second largest consumer healthcare player in key geographies, including the United States, Eur...

Use of e-cigarettes almost doubles among U.S. high school seniors

The federal government is stepping up its war against e-cigarettes, used by some smokers to wean themselves off cigarettes but feared by public health professio...

Johnson & Johnson to buy back $5B in stock after asbestos report

J&J rebutted Reuters' report in a written critique of the article and a video from company CEO Alex Gorsky. Reuters said its report on Friday was base...

Selena Gomez reappears in Instagram for first time since entering treatment facility

Her former Wizards Of Waverley Place co-star Bailee Madison and close friend, model Connar Franklin, shared images on their Instagram accounts. News of th...

E-cigarette usage nearly doubles in high school

The increase was twice as large as the previous record for a year-over-year increase in vaping by 12th-graders, the researchers say. "When we see rates of aro...

Christmas Eve is greatest risk for heart attack, study claims

That finding is based on a comprehensive database of hospital statistics that includes 283,014 cases of heart attacks over a period of 16 years. This is not t...

GSK to split after folding in Pfizer consumer unit

GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world's biggest drugs groups, is to be broken up after the company agreed to spin off its consumer healthcare business in a £10bn jo...

Medical miracle: Doctors baffled after Texas girl’s incurable brain tumor disappears

However, it wasn't that long ago that doctors had diagnosed the Doss' daughter with an inoperable brain tumor called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG. ...

Top US doctor urges aggressive steps against e-cigarettes

The surgeon general urged parents, doctors and educators to take a series of steps, including banning indoor vaping, and talking to kids about the dangers of e-...

Flu bug biting earlier this year than last

In the same period in 2017, there were 170 confirmed cases and in 2016 there were just 87 cases. "So far, it seems like a typical influenza season", he said. ...

Fitbit Makes Versa, Ionic Smartwatches Smarter With More Apps

The update has already been released in North America today, but it will take a few days for the roll-out to complete. The best part is that this feature will b...