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'Avengers' moviegoers in California may have been exposed to measles

The individual is now under voluntary isolation at home. The next day she went to the emergency room. And people in New Jersey may have been exposed to the viru...

USA Gymnastics Director of Sports Medicine Out After One Day on Job

The federal lawsuit filed Monday in Indianapolis alleges USA Gymnastics knows or should know the identities of many abuse survivors who hadn't filed claims ...

DRCongo Records 26 Ebola Deaths In One Day

I am also profoundly anxious about the situation. The assailants have mostly been unidentified but are believed to comprise both local militiamen and communit...

‘He Could’ve Died’: Man Suffers Stroke After Popping His Neck

Doctors said the act of popping his neck caused Josh Hader to tear his vertebral artery. As his symptoms developed, Hader's father-in-law ultimately brought h...

All the drinks launching in the new Starbucks summer line-up

It was introduced as the " Mango Dragonfruit Refresher " but customers started adding coconut milk to make it a bit more pastel. Next time you walk into Sta...

Impossible Foods' Supply Drops Ahead of Burger King Launch

The agency's brief is to support the fast food chain's brand transformation programme and drive relevance of BK and its products to a younger United Kingdom a...

Crowd rallies at Ontario legislature against health system changes

The Ford government has no mandate for any of this having promised to improve health care, not engage in the most radical restructuring and cuts to health care ...

Measles case confirmed in Pittsburgh: health officials

If other people breathe in the contaminated air or touch the infected surface, then tough their eyes, noses or mouths, they can become infected. Can I get one a...

It Seems Like Alzheimer's But Peek Into Brain Reveals a Mimic

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center and scientists from several National Institutes of Health-funded institutions, in collaboration with global peers,...

Care home provider Four Seasons Health Care appoints administrators

But the collapse will raise fresh questions about the financial health of Britain's care home sector and the potential risks it poses to tens of thousands of ...

Cruise ship quarantined in St. Lucia over confirmed measles case

Ms James refused to name the ship or where it had arrived from, but said the crew and passengers would not be allowed to leave. A cruise ship with almost 300 ...

What We Learned at the House Hearings on Medicare for All

James McGovern (D-Mass.) declared that while critics decry the policy's projected price tag, "we're spending an very bad lot on healthcare right now, and we're...

Sense of smell offers a clue to when we will die

The team categorized the respondents as having a good, moderate, or a poor sense of smell according to their score and also looked at information on the parti...

Health Department: Allegheny Co. Resident Diagnosed With Measles

The measles patient, a Placentia resident in her 20s, was diagnosed after a recent trip overseas to a country "experiencing widespread measles activity", the O....

Here's How to Know Whether You Need Another Measles Vaccine

According to the CDC , one dose of MMR is 93% effective against measles. Some adults might even want to consider getting the vaccine. According to that count...

Two diagnosed with HIV after injections at New Mexico spa

The clients received " vampire facials " at the VIP Spa between May and September 2018, according to the press release. The Regulation and Licensing Departmen...

Woman Gets Kidney Donation Delivered By Drone

It's the first time a drone has been used to drop off an organ for a transplant. The recipient , a 44-year-old Baltimore woman, reportedly spent several year...

2 diagnosed with HIV after getting facials at New Mexico spa

In its press release, the department said anyone who received an injection-related procedure, including a vampire facial , at the spa between May and September...

Obesity raises the risk of early death by up to 50%

The analysis of a nationally representative sample of more than 17,000 children in the United Kingdom finds that regardless of their socioeconomic status, girls...

What you need to know about the US measles outbreak

The virus is prevented with the MMR vaccine , which also protects against mumps (a viral infection that affects the salivary glands) and rubella (a viral infec...

A Video Game Developed To Detect Alzheimer's Disease Seems To Be Working

Sea Hero Quest was made by game studio Glitchers and Deutsche Telekom in partnership with University College London, the University of East Anglia , and Al...

Malawi launches malaria immunization pilot program

The vaccine has been shown to be safe in long-term trials so far, with the only reported adverse reactions being the same as other childhood vaccinations (fever...

The kissing bug could be making its way to MI

It's called the kissing bug because their bites are often found around the mouth. The results of Chagas disease can be devastating. The department reporte...

Should You Get a Measles Booster Shot? Here's What Experts Say

In 2014, there were 667 cases for the entire year . Measles case have been documented in: Arizona, California , Colorado, Connecticut, Florida , Georgia, Ill...

Family: Kentucky girl who died at cheerleading competition had strep

Lilliana was rushed to the hospital and just hours later was pronounced dead. The 13-year-old was taken to the Nationwide Children's Hospital. "In the ICU the...

Obesity and depression 'hand-in-hand' in children

Even a BMI of 25 to 30 increased the risk by 20 per cent, while a BMI of 35 to 40 more than doubled the risk and a BMI of 40 to 45 nearly quadrupled the risk ...

World Health Organisation issues rules for kids' screen time

One of the most important recommendations was no screen time beallowed for children between ages 0 and two. Otherwise, he says, "Setting a screen time limit pro...

Singer Assures Fans ‘All Is Well’ Amidst Mental Health Rumors

Britney Spears says that though her family has been stressed lately, she's doing OK. He was pretending to be me and communicating with my team with a fake emai...

Study debunks the association of lung cancer with non-smokers

Yet because lung cancer is still viewed as a disease of smokers, and largely self-inflicted, diagnosis in non-smokers is often late and funding for research is ...

Lung cancer on the rise in non-smokers, report warns

Lung cancer is often thought of as a tobacco user's disease, but new United Kingdom research suggests this may not be the case. Some of the major contributors...