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‘There’s Fire All Around,’ Saddleridge Fire Evacuees Fill Shelters to Capacity

Meanwhile, about 300,000 residents remain without electricity in Northern California after Pacific Gas & Electric intentionally cut power to prevent wildfire...

Second death from Legionnaires' disease confirmed

According to the Associated Press, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is working with the Macomb County Health Department to investigate the illne...

Report shows Iowa with 14th highest obesity rate for kids | 1040 WHO

Pennsylvania presents the region's highest rate, 17.4%. The data comes from the 2017 and 2018 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH), along with analysis...

Health Officials Warn Of Sicknesses Linked To Turtles

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Chris Cuomo Apologizes For Joke About Pronouns

Kamala Harris onstage in Los Angeles when the 2020 Democratic candidate told him, "My pronouns are she, her, and hers". LGBT+ advocates didn't let it slide ei...

Most pregnant women aren't getting flu and whooping cough shots, CDC warns

The authors also found that pregnant women ages 15-44 accounted for 24-34% of flu-related hospitalizations per season, though data shows that only 9% of USA w...

Middlesex County man is state’s 3rd human case of West Nile virus

The case is the second confirmed in Middlesex County this year. State laboratory tests confirmed the man, of Middlesex County, was exposed to the virus last m...

Flu season arrives; health officials say vaccinations important

That's not true, according to the health department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Because the timing of the onset, peak and end of flu...

CA Makes HIV Prevention Medication Available Without Prescription

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Monday that will make HIV-prevention drugs available without a prescription. The medications covered by the new...

Singapore to become first country to ban ads for very sugary drinks

The research results raise worries about the negative impacts of sugary drinks, irrespective of whether the sugar is included or normally happening, Drouin-Char...

Change in memory test scoring could help catch Alzheimer's earlier in women

The market in Asia Pacific is projected to expand at a significantly high CAGR during the forecast period, owing to improving health care infrastructure and r...

HSE urges Limerick people to avail of vaccine as flu season approaches

Influenza is often quite serious for people 65 and older. Every season the flu sickens millions of Americans, hospitalizes hundreds of thousands and kills ten...

Ecuador indigenous group rejects talks, seeks to 'radicalize' protests

A policewoman, who was detained by anti-government protesters, cries while standing on a stage at the Casa de Cultura in Quito . The officers looked scared b...

Global Fund seeks billions to fight Aids, TB and malaria

Today's discussions at the Lyon Replenishment Conference were aimed at raising 8,000 Billion frs to fund the fight against the above mentioned epidemics in the ...

Find Out Why Digital Notes Market Is Thriving Worldwide By Leading Players

For instance, according to Oracle Corporation, in 2017, almost 5% of police officers globally utilized body camera. The crisp data regarding the financial dynam...

Sanders says he'll resume campaigning 'as soon as possible' - 47abc

And I want all of you to understand that the day is going to come when 20 years from now 30 years from now, you're going to be talking to your kids and you're g...

Ban food on public transport to tackle child obesity, says report

Davies' other recommendations include extending the existing sugar tax to milk-based drinks containing added sugar, which might include the likes of hot chocola...

3 sexually transmitted diseases hit new highs again in US

That's the highest number since 1991. Chlamydia increased 3% to more than 1.7 million cases in the US - the most ever reported to CDC. The agency called a 4...

Mental health education should start early in school, says Sadag

As part of the afternoon session, they also had a discussion around World Mental Health Day and spoke about the importance of talking to others, sharing feeli...

Lexington-Fayette County Health Dept. offering free flu shots on Thursday

When you get the flu shot, the vaccine contains an inactivated virus that can not give you influenza . Likewise, the authors said that Tdap vaccine in the th...

Macron says global fund seeks $14 billion to fight AIDS, TB, malaria

This money will allow the Global Fund to support affected countries and populations with a view to saving 16 million lives, preventing 234 million new infection...

Should food be banned on public transport?

Professor Davies' recommendation to extend the levy to milk-based drinks supports a United Kingdom government report - released in July just hours before Boris ...

Nyeri County to offer free breast cancer checks for 30 days

Since then, the foundation has covered the cost of over 500 mammograms at hospitals in Pittsburgh, Memphis, Jonesboro, Ark., and Charlotte, N.C. At each event, ...

Owning a dog may lower your risk of an early death

The analysis of 10 previous studies published between the years 1950 to May 2019 included approximately 3.8 million participants. By the end, researchers dete...

Australian researchers say they cured cervical cancer in mice

If that seems to you like too much scientific language, you're not alone. These nanoparticles were used to target a gene called E7. Once CRISPR-Cas9 is deli...

Time to get an influenza shot: 11 cases announced in Maryland

While CDC considers October 1 to be the official start to the US flu season, California officials reported two flu-related deaths in September, and other...

GSK recalls popular heartburn drug Zantac globally after cancer scare

Pharmacists are being advised to stop supplying some ranitidine ( Zantac; GSK) products after it was revealed that they may be contaminated with the impurity...

Mental health week has clinicians breaking down barriers

Make sure that your employees are aware that conversations about mental health will be kept confidential and would only ever be shared with a limited number of ...

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

He was re-admitted later that month and then died October 4th. Cuomo says the teenager was hospitalized in early September for a respiratory illness related to ...