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Two People Being Treated for Plague in China

Authorities tried to dispel fears of an outbreak of the illness. But the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday told Beijing residen...

Latest Pharmacy News: NHS records its worst A&E waiting times since 2004

On a more positive note, nearly 175,000 people were seen within two weeks of being referred for an urgent cancer check in September, an increase of 8.9% compare...

FDA sends a warning letter to Dollar Tree about its OTC drugs

Even after the FDA notified the company that these Chinese contract manufacturers and suppliers had received warning letters , and their products had been bann...

9-Year-Old Child Genius From Belgium Set to Graduate College

Laurent is due to graduate from TUE next month, which would make him the world's youngest university graduate. To CNN , nine-year-old Laurent Simons also ...

LA suburb mourns student victims after school shooting

He said the suspect was a student but gave no further information. At approximately 7:30 AM PST, the shooter opened fire with a.45-caliber semiautomatic pis...

More Americans Were Killed by Superbugs than Previously thought

Bacteria are constantly evolving to fend off the drugs used to kill them. In addition, investments in improved surveillance of antibiotic resistant infections a...

Police responding to Southern California high school shooting

There were no bullets left in the firearm when investigators recovered it. Multiple sources have identified him as Nathaniel Berhow , and the Los Angeles Ti...

Stanford publishes its massive Apple Watch heart-rate study

Apple's heart study with Stanford Medical Study not only detects irregular heartbeats but also paves the way for future digital treatment. NEJM editor Dr...

Health officials advise getting flu shot before holidays

However, some ingredients in the shot remain the same each year. University of Georgia researchers are receiving millions of federal dollars to help create a ...

IN reports fourth vaping related death

Three more vaping-related deaths were reported Thursday , bringing the total to 42. "Sadly, we report the tragic impact e-cigarettes have had on another Miss...

Diabetes cases soar, 1-in-11 adults affected: doctors

Talking to Dawn , Prof Abdul Basit, member of the IDF Diabetes Atlas Committee in Pakistan, and director of the Baqai Institute of Diabetology & Endocrinolog...

Fighting Diabetes never got easier! Here are some ace ways for you

It is characterised by insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency, either or both of which may be present at the time diabetes is diagnosed. With diab...

Climate change is already damaging health of children, says Lancet report

With increasing diarrhea diseases, more unsafe heat waves, air pollution and increases in mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever and malaria, man-made g...

The EU just approved a vaccine to prevent Ebola

It permits the development of medicine to move forward with less comprehensive data than is usually required, only if the benefits outweigh the risks. These res...

More people dying from antibiotic resistance than previously believed — CDC

The report "shows us that our collective efforts to stop the spread of germs and preventing infections is saving lives", said CDC Director Robert Redfield. An...

In Alabama, lung cancer patients have the greatest risk of death

Lung cancer is the most common one, which has affected more than 2.09 million people worldwide till now. The report explores how lung cancer varies by state b...

Trump, Erdogan Hold Meeting After Turkish Invasion in Syria

Kobane accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Operation Peace Spring, which is seeking to clear the Kurds from 20 miles into Syria , of giving I...

Artificial Intelligence Better Than Doctors at Predicting Deadly Heart Attacks

We have an AI technique that can forecast volcanic eruption , and an algorithm that can write believable fake news within seconds. The AI was able to co...

Vehicle bombing kills 7 civilians in Afghanistan

Besides Haqqani, Afghan officials have said two other prominent Taliban militants - Hafiz Rashid Omari and Haji Milli Khan - were released. In January 2017, t...

Daca: US Supreme Court seems to back Trump on key immigration case

In her first statement on Tuesday, she asked why more consideration was not being given to Donald Trump's repeated declarations that he would help Daca rec...

WHO prequalifies first Ebola vaccine

In a statement welcoming yesterday's European Commission approval Seth Berkley, MD, Gavi's chief executive officer, said the vaccine has "huge potential" and ...

5th case of vaping-related lung illness in Mississippi

Mysterious Lung Illnesses On The Rise: Vaping-Related Injuries? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 800 incidents of lu...

Pneumonia, the forgotten killer, claims one life every 39 seconds: Health agencies

In a report on what they described as a "forgotten epidemic", the United Nations children's fund UNICEF, the global charity Save The Children and four other hea...

Kaiser Permanente CEO Bernard Tyson dead at 60

Tyson "unexpectedly passed away early Sunday morning in his sleep", Kaiser Permanente said in a press release . In addition to his role at Kaiser Permane...

2 flu-related deaths confirmed in Nevada

It is important that people understand how the flu vaccine works. People are at the greatest risk of getting the flu in the late fall and winter in Canada, wh...

Related Lung Disease And Vitamin E Acetate: What You Should Know

White House adviser Kellyanne Conway told reporters earlier this week vape shops may be exempted, leaving open the possibility that outlets like gas stations an...

Doctor arrested, accused of performing ‘unnecessary surgeries’ on patients

The patients cited in the affidavit were identified by initials, not by name. When she consulted a separate fertility specialist afterward to try for another pr...

Google was allegedly collecting millions of Americans' healthcare data

The Journal reported that Nightingale's scope "pertains to lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, among other categories, and amounts to a...

U.S. CDC reports 'breakthrough' in vaping lung injury probe

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say they have a "very strong culprit" in vitamin E acetate, which has only recently been used as a thickener...

Spain confirms first case of sexually transmitted dengue

Health officials have confirmed a case of a person spreading dengue through sex, which is the world's first such virus because till now only mosquitoes have r...