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Regional New Couchiching Family Health Team Announced News Centre

A focused group of patients will receive these services through their integrated primary care teams and the broader Ontario Health Team partners. Huron-Bruce ...

World AIDS Day Through a Mental Health Perspective

What more can be done to increase awareness and combat the increasing numbers of those affected with HIV and AIDS? To date, there are 763 people living with H...

CDC: Flu season could peak early this year

This year alone there have been five pediatric deaths across the country from flu related complications so far. Getting vaccinated is the best defense against...

Ebola vaccine doses to be stockpiled for emergency outbreak use

This number features Merck's vaccine, which was given provisional European approval and saw the company scaling up production accordingly. Further than its ...

New Report Indicates Cell Phone Injuries On The Rise Nationwide

Researchers found 2,501 patients who sought medical treatment for these injuries. If translated onto a national scale, the number of cases would amount to more...

As N.H. Primary Approaches, Buttigieg Takes The Lead In Polls There

Bernie Sanders , I-Vt. - putting him in first place in the race, a new poll conducted for the Los Angeles Times reveals. "But that represents a decline for Wa...

Ontario auditor general to release report looking at climate change, justice

In the report, Bonnie Lysyk says the province's climate change plan is unlikely to meet its emissions-reductions targets and that the government knows it. "The ...

Black Lives Matter protester crashes Pete Buttigieg event in Indiana

Buttigieg, who has struggled to win over African American voters, did not attend the gathering. Spokeswoman Marisol Samayoa told the South Bend Tribune that t...

NewsBreak: Peloton Sinks Again as It Stands up for Controversial Ad

A woman is offered her husband's Peloton Bike for the holidays and she registers her fitness trail in order to make her a video diary that she gives her the fol...

Measles death toll climbs to 63 in Samoa

The present disaster in Samoa has additionally triggered many worldwide anti-vaccination campaigners to weigh in and criticising the nation's drive to immunise ...

Hair dye, straighteners might boost breast cancer risk, especially for black women

Researchers say the risk for straightener use didn't vary by race, but noted that 75 percent of the black women observed reported using the products. That ris...

The vaccine group announces the creation of an Ebola vaccine supply

Among the other elements of the stockpiling plan, lower income countries that need to tap the supply will also receive support for operating immunization campai...

Cigarette user Diagnosed with Pneumoconiosis

It's sometimes recognized in individuals who work with "onerous metals", comparable to cobalt or tungsten, in jobs like instrument sharpening, diamond sprucing ...

WHO decries 'collective failure' as measles kills 140,000

The latest figures released by the Samoan Government estimated that about 82 per cent of infants and children aged 6-months to 4-years-old have been immunised a...

Malaria fight stalling at ‘unacceptably high level’ of deaths

Notably, the report shows a steep decline in cases of P. falciparum malaria, a primary target in view of the ongoing threat of antimalarial drug resistance. "...

Kamala Harris out, 15 Dems still in race: Darcy cartoon

Kamala Harris is ending her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Harris, 55, the daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother, who re...

6 deaths linked to flu in Arkansas, health department says

The Arkansas Department of Health says the deaths have all occurred in people 45-years-or older. Last night health officials urged parents to come forward and...

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) Issues FY20 Earnings Guidance

LLC grew its position in UnitedHealth Group by 212.5% during the 3rd quarter. Nuveen Asset Management LLC increased its stake in UnitedHealth Group by 1,354.6% ...

WHO warns measles resurgent as Samoa deaths rise

The government said nearly 200 new measles cases had been recorded since Sunday, with the rate of infection showing no sign of slowing despite a compulsory ...

Samoa on lockdown for two-day measles vaccination campaign

Samoa began a two-day shutdown on Thursday when authorities embarked on an unprecedented mass vaccination campaign to contain a deadly measles outbreak that kil...

Brushing Your Teeth Reduces The Risk of a Heart Attack

New research finds that brushing the teeth three or more times a day significantly reduces the risk of atrial fibrillation and heart failure. Previous studie...

Hot weather linked to rise in early childbirth

Another study predicted that the annual number of days with temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) will double by 2065, compared to the ...

Brush your teeth thrice a day; reduce heart failure risk

The American Dental Association prescribes brushing 2-3 times each day (particularly after dinners), supplanting toothbrushes at regular intervals, getting thei...

Younger people should have their cholesterol checked at 25

They say it is possible to use the reading to calculate the lifetime risk of heart disease and stroke. "The second message is that you need to show these youn...

Early cholesterol treatment lowers heart disease risk

The new global study involved data on more than 400,000 people from 38 different trials. Early and intensive action to reduce non-HDL cholesterol levels could...

Why Whites are more likely to receive HIV prevention drugs than Blacks

Pharmaceutical giant Gilead, which is separately facing a federal patent infringement lawsuit over its strict control of PrEP, previously announced it would...

Creation of 'unintended mutations' after Chinese gene edited baby experiment fails

Jiankui made the bold and expansive claim that his research could one day be used to "control the HIV epidemic". The team had not reproduced the gene mutation...

US scientists test first monthly contraceptive pill in pigs

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 16 percent of women between 15 and 44 years of age take birth control pills. In a fir...

Women using permanent hair dye, straighteners at high risk of breast cancer

Based on a 2017 review of 119 studies involving 12 million women from around the globe, the authors found that for every 10 grams of alcohol-that's 3.3 ounces...

HIV Vaccine: Ongoing Trials Have Doctors ‘Optimistic’ For Global Availability By 2021

Once this vaccine is available in the market, it will help lots of people who have HIV-AIDS because once they have the vaccine it makes the viral load undetecta...