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Q Poll: Biden Leads; Bloomberg Ties Harris, Klobuchar

Sanders led the Democratic primary field with 26 percent support among primary voters, trailed by Buttigieg at 22 percent. Sanders, a staunch progressive, a...

Nigeria vows to end HIV scourge by 2030

Last year Mayco member for Safety and Security; and Social Services JP Smith said that he was extremely pleased with the level of HIV testing conducted in the C...

Warning issued after man dies from dog lick

But this was a healthy man who had none of those issues. The man's face shows blood spots on the skin after a few days in the hospital. The dog didn't bite...

Quinnipiac Poll Shows Pete Buttigieg Surging to Second Place Nationally

Warren's drop to third is quite dramatic given she was first in Quinnipiac University's October 24 poll, with 28 percent, even more support than Biden had in ...

USA researchers report first recording of blue whale's heart rate

With a very keen eye, Paul Ponganis - our collaborator from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography - found the first heartbeats in the data. "There were a lot ...

Elementary, high school teachers to start work to rule campaigns Tuesday

OSSTF represents all secondary teachers, secondary occasional teachers, as well as education support workers in elementary and secondary schools. The union sa...

Children Spend Too Much Time On Electronic Devices

That's way beyond what's recommended, the researchers said. She's an investigator in the epidemiology branch of the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and ...

Death toll in Samoa's measles outbreak rises to 32

Another 243 cases have been reported in the last 24 hours, the Samoan Ministry of Health says. Samoa is now in a state of emergency, with all schools closed, ...

Thousands of hospital patients who are exposed to HIV, hepatitis

More than a thousand surgical patients at Goshen Hospital in IN may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B after an error in the sanitizing p...

German Dies of Infection from Dog's Lick

His symptoms included fever, muscle pain, and labored breathing. At the hospital, tests showed that he had kidney damage and signs of liver dysfunction, and doc...

Cancer Survivors 'Have Higher Heart Risk'

More than one in ten cancer patients don't die from cancer itself, rather from heart and blood vessel conditions. "'The majority of deaths (absolute numbers...

Man Arrested For Murder After Girlfriend’s Body Found In Car Trunk

Fernandez added that Solis' boyfriend became arrest November 9 on an aggravated assault cost, nonetheless that cost became dropped when Solis it sounds as if se...

Flu Cases In Arizona Have Tripled Compared To Previous Seasons

This serves as a clear indicator that this flu season is noticeably more severe than the last. "Hopefully most Virginians have already been vaccinated, but now ...

Italian coast guard recovers seven bodies of migrants off island

The organization rescued the migrants from a distressed boat off Libya's coast early on Thursday. Italy suggested that the ship should dock at the Libyan port o...

Samoa measles death toll hits 20; eleven children critical

The majority of the infected are on Upolu island. Leausa said, since two young children died a year ago after being immunised, some parents are still hesitant...

Indian kids better global average in physical activity level

Effective July 2018, access to full reports will only be available with a subscription. Investigators observed the prevalence of insufficient activity decreas...

UK Tories plan property tax increase for foreign buyers

The plan to increase SDLT for non United Kingdom residents who buy property is meant to stop foreign investors leaving homes empty, or renting them out, in a bi...

Urging people to get vaccinated before flu season peaks

In addition, 2.5 percent of all healthcare visits across the country were due to flu-related concerns, up from 2.3 percent the previous week. The CDC reporte...

Northern Indiana hospital: We failed to disinfect surgical instrument

In the letter, patients who may have been exposed were encouraged to take part in free lab testing. The hospital said treatment options are available for any ...

FDA issues warning about contaminated blackberries

Tom Safanek, state epidemiologist for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. The department says it, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and th...

4 out of 5 adolescents don't exercise enough

Fiona Bull of the WHO . The figures - the foremost world estimates on physical activity amongst teenagers - counsel that "couch potato" lifestyles have chang...

Worker Health Insurance Contributions Outpaced Income Past 10 Years

U.S. Rep. Donna Shalala, a Miami Democrat and former U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, said insurance plan cost increases have always been expected by...

Ontario teen develops 'popcorn lung'-like vaping illness

They write in Thursday's edition of The Canadian Medical Association Journal that the 17-year-old boy went from being in ideal health to being on life suppor...

Fiona Hill's gender critique during public impeachment testimony gets applause online

Trump is likely to face an impeachment vote in the House of Representatives in mid-December. This afternoon, Hill went on to characterize Gordon Sondland's ...

New Allergan migraine drug seems safe, effective in late-stage trial

Richard B. Lipton , director of the Montefiore Headache Center in NY, who led the study published Tuesday, Nov. 19 in the medical journal JAMA . Ubrogepant ...

Mysterious virus shuts down every school in Colorado district

In addition, all school attendance offices will make a student as excused this week if a parent calls the school to say they are holding their student home due ...

Measles immunisation campaign underway in Samoa

In Samoa, coverage rates past year dropped to 40 percent and 28 percent for the two-dose vaccine, according to UNICEF - far lower than the 95 percent needed...

Humans put in suspended animation for first time

Dr Samuel Tisherman , of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, told a symposium in NY that his team had placed at least one patient in suspended ani...

Following a keto diet can help you fight the influenza virus better

Mice that had been encouraged a ketogenic diet for seven days before disease were shielded from body weight reduction and had improved endurance comparative wit...

First case of swine flu this season in Bhatinda

Olivia Kasirye said. "The problem with flu swabs is that it can take 20 minutes or more to get the results and for patients who are going to need more emergen...