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Rabbit hemorrhagic disease found for a second year

Last year's strain, which killed hundreds of rabbits in Nanaimo in March 2018, only affected European rabbits and not native North American ones. "Rabbit he...

CDC: Ground beef behind E. coli outbreak

The outbreak began in early March and has stretched across six states with 109 people reporting illness consistent with symptoms of food poisoning. coli il...

Texas School Agrees to Stop Using Race in Admissions, First in Nation

The Trump administration is separately investigating whether Harvard and Yale are discriminating against Asian-American applicants in their use of race in admis...

IL bill proposes Trump showing tax returns to appear on 2020 ballot

Mr Trump himself has claimed that he can not release his tax returns because they are under audit, although technically there is nothing preventing him from doi...

Calcium supplement warning from scientists

Up to 5 million people in the United Kingdom take calcium and vitamin D supplements in an attempt to avoid osteoporosis in later life. But a study found takin...

AG William Barr testifies in House hearing

Barr was also questioned about the initial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants approved to surveil members of the Trump campaign, including fo...

Ontario's Tories don't plan to balance books until after election

Thursday's budget featured a free dental program for low-income seniors, which was being welcomed by many advocates for the elderly, although Ottawa Centre ND...

Maine's First Pediatric Death Caused by Influenza in 3 Years

This is the first influenza-associated pediatric death in ME during the 2018-19 influenza season. The child's identity and age have not been released. The sta...

Father, son charged in Michigan's body parts probe

Donald Greene Sr. and Donald Greene II allegedly sold body parts that had tested positive for infectious diseases, including hepatitis, or had not been tested a...

E. coli outbreak growing in Georgia, 4 other states, CDC says

CDC says illnesses started on dates from March 2 to March 29 of this year. States are investigating additional illnesses that might be a part of this outbreak....

Court says Evers had power to void appointments

Evers. Scott Walker, an opponent of the Affordable Care Act, approved Wisconsin joining the lawsuit. Evers' executive assistant, Maddie Zimmerman, sent an e...

Court halts NY county's anti-measles emergency order

The emergency order included schools, stores, churches and restaurants. The stakes? The health of our loved ones, " Day said on Facebook after the ban was lifte...

Texas Tech medical school to stop using race in admissions

DeVos revoked Obama-era guidance a year ago that offered schools a road map on how they could legally consider race in the interest of promoting diversity. In...

Lawyer: Challenge to NYC's vaccination order in the works

Westchester County neighbors Rockland County , where 168 people have contracted measles, prompting schools to temporarily ban unvaccinated children. But a judg...

Attorney General William Barr Testifies on Trump’s DOJ Budget Request

To keep the hoax alive after Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation completely debunked it, they've had to invent a new "cover up" theory, implying th...

New York Mandates Vaccine To Contain Brooklyn Measles Outbreak

The city's largest outbreak since 1991 of the once virtually eradicated disease has mainly been confined to the Orthodox Jewish community in the borough's Wi...

Reaction to recommendations that most women don't need annual mammograms

But screening too early or too often can also catch more small, slow-growing tumors that are unlikely to be fatal - without curbing the diagnosis of advanced ...

Cancer 'vaccine' shows promise in human trial of lymphoma patients

Researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital have developed a new cancer immunotherapy process that teaches the immune system to destroy tumor cells in the body. The...

Zapping Brain Boosts Memory of People Over 60

Using a technique known as electroencephalography (EEG) to monitor brain activity and a another called transcranial alternating-current stimulation (tACS), the ...

Elevated cancer risk linked to excessive calcium intake, study says

Measurements for the study included data on participants' use of dietary supplements in the previous 30 days, along with their nutrient intake from food and...

Barr: Mueller Report Redactions Needed For 'People In Private Life,' Not Trump

Attorney General William Barr told a Senate committee that he believes Federal Bureau of Investigation " spying did occur " on the Trump campaign in 2016. But...

OR woman lived until 99 with organs in the wrong places

Rose Marie Bentley was discovered to have lived almost a century before dying of natural causes, despite her internal organs being positioned in the wrong place...

Australian Government worried about measles spike

Sign-up now and enjoy one (1) week free access! "We are really anxious it could take hold here", the health protection director told AAP. The spate of cases...

Trump's ACA replacement coming 'fairly shortly,' White House staffer says

The Kansas House approved an insurance bill on an 84-39 vote that includes provisions to exempt health coverage offered by the Farm Bureau from state insurance ...

Excess of Vitamin D Can Cause Kidney Failure

Over a two and a half year period, the patient, who did not have a history of bone loss or vitamin D deficiency , took between eight and twelve drops of vitami...

New York City orders mandatory vaccines for some amid measles outbreak

The measles outbreak has sickened 285 people in the city since October, and the rate of infection has increased over the last two months, Mayor Bill de Blasi...

Feds break up $1.2B Medicare scam targeting seniors

Attorney in South Carolina Sherri Lydon said. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents said a slew of executives at five telemedicine companies and owners of ...

Success in Scotland for the HPV vaccine - Health Report

Apart from its cancer-causing abilities, Dr Nicholson-Spence said that the HPV vaccine also offers protection from genital warts which can affect both sexes. "T...

Woman lives to 99 despite her organs being in wrong places

Bentley, they said, had situs inversus with levocardia , which means her stomach, liver, and other abdominal organs are on the right side of her body while her...

Dogs can smell cancer in blood with 97% accuracy, study reveals

Dogs are able to smell cancer in the blood of patients with an incredibly high level of success, according to a new study. Heather Junqueira , the leading re...