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Mental health week has clinicians breaking down barriers

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Prince Harry & Ed Sheeran Tease Joint Project For World Mental Health Day

From there, the singer asks, "Do you mind if I band cameras in?" and Harry agrees, saying, "Of course, yeah, come on it". It finishes with a black screen with...

NYC Teen Becomes First New Yorker To Die From Vaping

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#GlobalGetsVocal: Share your story for Mental Illness Awareness Week 2019

At work? School? In your community? Beth Cunningham works in the media industry and has taken time off work due to mental health-related reasons; however, her...

Aerial mosquito spraying to stop EEE is completed in 14 MI counties

Other areas sprayed included portions of Allegan, Barry, Berrien, Calhoun, Cass, Kent, Montcalm, Newaygo, St. Joseph and Van Buren counties. The state of MI s...

October provides opportunity to promote breast cancer awareness

Emara noted that the rate of recovery from breast cancer can reach to 98 percent if the disease is detected in its early stages. The third and final stage wil...

STD Rates Continue to Rise in the US

A new government report finds that combined cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia reached an all-time high in 2018. But the problem begins earlier, wit...

Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $8 billion over drug side effect

J&J is facing a series of complaints in state courts for failing to properly warn of Risperdal's side effects, including in Pennsylvania, California and Missour...

STDs in America Hit an All-Time High in 2018

The infection rate rose 3 percent from 2017. Kansas had eight cases of newborns being born with syphilis in 2018. But there are some disparities, with the hig...

Want to live longer? New study says dogs can help

To investigate, Kramer's team searched through medical literature dating back to 1950 and found 10 studies of dog ownership and survival including a total of ...

Kansas sees rise in syphilis cases, newborns with disease

And there were 79,397 cases of gonorrhea, 211% more than 10 years ago. Chlamydia increased 56% to 232,181 cases. In San Luis Obispo County, 1,200 cases of chl...

Groundbreaking new platform launched to support mental health

While these can be a natural response to life's challenges, they can become more serious if people don't take action, and many wait too long. The platform, wh...

Nobel prize in physics awarded for research on cosmology and exoplanets

Peebles immediately went to work trying to understand the physics underlying different aspects of the Big Bang, showing how temperature and matter density infl...

City Charges Trump $500K, Obama $20K For Rally Security

Trump's campaign accused Mayor Jacob Frey, who has been critical of the president, of "conjuring a phony and outlandish bill for security" at Thursday's rally a...

Owning a dog can help you live longer, new study reveals

Researchers found that compared to non-owners, dog owners experienced a 24 per cent reduced risk of all-cause mortality, 65 per cent reduced risk of mortality...

NHS opens dedicated clinic for video game-addicted children

A Canadian law firm is now suing Epic Games for endangering two young people who have created Fortnite addiction. A spokesman for the Affiliation of UK Inte...

Three infants dead from bacterial infection at Pennsylvania hospital

Three infants are reported dead after coming down with infections at a Pennsylvania hospital. This waterborne bacteria causes one of the most common hospital-...

Truck collides with multiple cars in German city Limburg, 17 injured

The driver, who was also reportedly injured in the collision has been arrested, though police are still determining whether the incident was an accident or a ...

Climate change protesters shut down Burrard Bridge, but cause little disruption

Activists from the Extinction Rebellion group split up into teams of 10 and planned to storm the CBD in stages. "We need to raise the profile, we need the G...

Climate change protest expected to block Bloor Street Viaduct

It is part of an " international rebellion " around the world, with action taking place in cities including Berlin , Madrid , Amsterdam and NY. Organizers ...

State reports first death from vaping-related lung injury

The US state of MA upheld a ban on e-cigarettes Friday amid a spate of deaths and injuries linked to vaping across the country. The death in MA brings the natio...

Hoosiers Encouraged To Get Flu Vaccine

Health officials say the virus can be deadly. "They take the strands and create the vaccine out of it". Flu shots can be obtained through primary care provi...

Nevada Wildlife Officials Warn Hunters About Stumbling, Drooling ‘Zombie’ Deer

They can become more aggressive and less afraid of humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . The symptoms of chronic wasting dis...

Facing the music: Zuckerberg pledges strong opposition to break-up threats

Warren introduced her proposal to break up Facebook , Amazon and other tech giants in March. The story points out that though tech executives may be warmi...

FDA Approves PrEP Drug

Like Truvada , Descovy is taken once every day and can decrease the transmission of HIV by more than 95 percent. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ap...

Fake Nurse Attempts to Hire Hitman for Husband

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US retains measles-elimination status despite worst outbreak in quarter-century

NY health officials Thursday declared the end of the state's almost year-long epidemic, which accounted for 75 percent of cases nationwide, and occurred mostly ...

Vaping Injuries May Be Chemical Burns

A Mayo Clinic study of vaping-related lung injuries finds that "toxic chemical fumes", not oils, may be to blame for the illnesses. Now, research by the Ma...

US will block immigrants unable to pay for healthcare, says Trump

President Trump signed a proclamation late Friday barring legal immigrants who can not prove they will have health care coverage or the means to pay for it...

State, local governments blast Purdue opioid settlement plan

The brief opposing Purdue's request to stop the states' lawsuits against the Sackler family is available here. "The Sacklers extracted up to $13 billion fro...