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Flu numbers triple in comparison to last season

People were flagged up as a flu risk if their weekly average heart rate rose above their normal level, or if they were sleeping more than they usually did. Dr R...

Bridgegate defendants get hearing before US Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two more cases on Tuesday afternoon. The nine justices of the Supreme Court are expected to issue a ruling ...

Student fatally shot at Texas high school; suspect arrested

Ogg said that the shooting was reckless but there is no evidence that the two had been fighting. Police responded a shooting at Bellaire High School around 4 ...

The Seventh Democratic Debate

On Wednesday, CNN released the audio from the two candidates' microphones. Warren was seen after the debate refusing to shake Sanders' hand after Sanders was ...

Flyers end Blues' nine-game home winning streak

Jordan Binnington will be in goal for Wednesday's game against Philadelphia. They gave the Capitals, Lightning and Bruins a combined 11 power play opport...

Being rich 'adds nine years to your life'

The biggest socioeconomic factor in predicting when those problems began was wealth, the team discovered, with richer people enjoying nearly an extra decade bef...

Va. Gov., Leery of Threats, Bans Weapons at Gun-Rights Rally

The Virginia Citizens Defense League, VCDL, a group that describes itself as a "non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots organization dedicated to advancing the f...

UnitedHealth reports another strong quarter

The stock has a market cap of $6.02 billion, a P/E ratio of 10.93, a P/E/G ratio of 2.35 and a beta of 0.72. The consensus estimates call for $3.78 in earnings ...

Deaths caused by cancer continue to decline in the US

Reedy urged the president to continue to support the declines by increasing access to health care, ramping up funding for cancer research and enacting policies ...

The 2019-2020 Flu Season in USVI Is Underway

This year appears to be quite the contrast. Since September 29, 2019, 8,800 positive influenza tests have been reported to the ADH online database by health c...

SLO County Public Health confirms first flu death of season

The flu vaccine is still available at most local health departments while supplies last. "In a typical Flu season about 75 percent of the flu cases presenting...

Women are more attracted to men with beards, study reveals

The new research found women who were particularly squeamish about ticks, pubic lice and other hair-borne pests found bearded men less attractive. As per th...

Women who have more sex have lower risk of early menopause

There is considerable variation in the age of natural menopause across cultures, but genetic factors only account for about half of those differences, earlier r...

WHO says new China coronavirus could spread, warns hospitals worldwide

The health authorities of the Wuhan city in the central Chinese province of Hubei have admitted that human-to-human transmission of the newly registered type of...

4 year old goes blind after the flu

Jade had the flu , and she was unresponsive, a ventilator breathing for her. Jade's parents immediately took her to Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo, Iowa, ...

Novartis and NHS partner to improve manufacture of oligonucleotides

Prof Ray said: "This has the potential to overcome a huge issue which is non-adherence to medications which must be taken daily". The pact also calls for a Un...

More flu deaths reported in Douglas County over 65-years-old

Pediatrician Doctor Mary Keown tells us children tend to have a more severe reaction to influenza B. She says its not too late for you to get vaccinated. "We ca...

Climate change: Hotter temperatures could kill 2000 more a year in US

The team found that 1.5C of warming would bring an additional 1,600 deaths each year; 2C of warming would see around 2,100 more. The data predicts that there wi...

Organ donation: new technique can preserve human livers for a week

The technology could boost the number of livers available for transplantation and even offer new approaches to treating diseases such as liver cancer. The compl...

Charity warns of Devon toxic air deaths

The British Heart Foundation (BHF), which compiled the figures , said there are an estimated 11,000 deaths per year at the moment but this will rise as the p...

FDA Approves Ayvakit™ for Gastrointestinal Cancer

The US regulator has cleared Ayvakit (avapritinib) - a KIT and PDGFRA inhibitor - for adults with GIST that can't be treated with surgery or has spread ar...

People in China Cautious, But Not Worried About New Virus

One of Wuhan's largest meat and seafood markets was pinpointed as the centre of the mysterious pneumonia outbreak and was shut down on January 1. It also note...

More popular heartburn medications recalled due to impurity

For example, according to CNN , "Last year, drugmaker Novartis said it would stop distribution of all ranitidine medicines made by Sandoz; Dr. Reddy's Labora...

Trump administration says no rush for Supreme Court to hear Obamacare appeal

However, the appeals court ordered the district court to re-examine its decision on how that effected the rest of the health care law; U.S. District Judge Reed ...

Second US baby born after uterus transplant from deceased donor

Jennifer Gobrecht and her husband, Drew Gobrecht, appeared today at a press conference in Philadelphia. She learned at age 17 she wouldn't be able to carry a ch...

Walgreens begins 2020 much as it ended 2019, on a sour note

Future financial savings have been overshadowed by the present setting of sliding earnings, nevertheless. But Walgreens shares dropped 5.7% o $55.92 in trad...

Wisconsin child dies from flu, Dept. of Health Services says

The influenza viruses circulate worldwide and can affect anybody in any age group; however, children, people with chronic illness, pregnant women, and the elder...

Losing just one night’s sleep linked to Alzheimer’s disease

But the Swedish researchers behind the study were shocked by how damaging just one night of sleeplessness could be. A research of wholesome males of their twe...

Marianne Williamson becomes latest Democrat to drop out of 2020 presidential race

I wanted to discuss things I felt needed to be discussed that otherwise were not. At a July debate, Williamson caught Americans off guard when she offered a...

Air pollution fatal for children, risk of this unsafe disease

A brand new learn about blended genetic knowledge from iPSYCH with air air pollution knowledge from the Division of Environmental Science to turn that the upper...