BC looking into vaccination registry due to measles outbreak: health minister
Wednesday was so-called "exclusion day" in OR - the last day children can attend school without their required immunizations. Similarly, Dr. Rio Magpantay, DoH-Region 2 health director, said the department would continue to conduct an outbreak resp... More..
Trump Praises Hannity, Limbaugh, Carlson, Ingraham; Takes a Dig at Coulter
Trump offered no acknowledgment on Wednesday that his pressure tactics had failed even as aides sought to minimize the damage by tamping down criticism on the right. Aside from Coulter, a handful of Trump's Fo...More..
Refugee 'medivac bill' passes Australia's lower house
The Opposition Australian Labor Party (ALP) joined forces with the Greens and independent Members of Parliament (MPs) to pass the medical evacuations bill by 75 votes to the governing Liberal-National Party c...More..
Smoking up may be good for fertility
In the latest study, published Tuesday in Human Reproduction , researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and elsewhere looked at a specific group of men: fertility clinic patients. On ...More..
Measles cases in Europe `highest in decade´
As stated by to the state health department, orders for two types of measles medicines in Clark County increased by nearly 500 percent in January compared with the same month previous year, from 530 doses to ...More..
Health Officials Urge Everyone to Get Vaccinated
Three were reported in Harris County and one was reported in Galveston County by the counties' health departments. The outbreak includes 42 cases among those who were not immunized, six cases where immuni...More..
High cost, low awareness tied to rise in breast cancer cases?
High levels of oestrogen can fuel the development of breast cancer . Data from the National Cancer Registry showed that in 2014 cancer was the sixth main cause of death in South Africa, with close to 75 ...More..
No Confirmed Measles Cases in Jackson County, Health Officials Underline
Clark County Public Health said in a statement Wednesday there are also 13 suspected cases. Authorities say there are now 38 confirmed cases of measles in an outbreak in the Pacific Northwest. "As of February...More..
CDC: 2 More Child Deaths Linked to Flu
And although a cold can be a nuisance, you usually feel much worse with the flu. DE health officials have announced three recent flu-related deaths, bringing the total number of people in the state who have d...More..
Eating breakfast may not lead to weight loss
It also challenges studies that suggest skipping breakfast can disrupt the body's internal clock and lead to weight gain. These studies are usually observational, though, meaning they only look for indire...More..
Measles - Get vaccinated now
A further case has been confirmed in Multnomah County in OR, which has been connected to the outbreak in Washington. And the potentially deadly disease is making a comeback mostly in unvaccinated children: Of t...More..
Washington Governor Declares State Of Emergency Over Measles Outbreak
Not to mention they also were at a Costco, an Ikea, a Dollar Store and more, according to Clark County Public Health . "What keeps me up at night is worrying that we're going to have a child die from this, s...More..
State bill introduced to nix personal exemptions for measles vaccine
Health officials in OR have raised concerns that the virus could easily cross the border. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reports that symptoms typically surface a week to two weeks after an ...More..
Who are the pair at the centre of HIV data leak?
Brochez was jailed for 28 months in 2017 for fraud and drug-related crimes, before being deported. However, as far back as in May 2016 , MOH has already received information that Farrera-Brochez possessed ...More..
Memory loss caused by Alzheimers can be restored
The discovery also offers hope for a treatment that could slow neurodegeneration. Sarah Marzi, a postdoctoral researcher at Queen Mary University of London, said that the researchers "most promisingly" show...More..
This season’s flu shot far more effective than last year’s, researchers find
Doctors say the flu shot seems to be stopping the flu from becoming as widespread as it has in the past. "It's pretty unusual to see young, otherwise healthy people die of the flu in non-pandemic years, but i...More..
DeSantis leads on medical marijuana
The new governor said he will wait until mid-March before he will drop an appeal filed under then-Gov. Former Gov. Rick Scott's administration appealed the decision to the 1st District Court of Appeals, whi...More..
Meghan Markle will NOT return to Suits for 'one last episode'
The plate of Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex (no, not her commemorative wedding china , I mean her metaphorical life plate), is now pretty full. The scene would be no longer than two minutes and would be ...More..
Comatose woman gave birth to boy, attorney says
KPHO also spoke with a former Hacienda manager who said Timmons insisted that a 1988 incident of abuse of a different patient be covered up. They said the baby was born into a loving family and he would be...More..
Flu Season Has Kicked In... Here's How to Protect Yourself
Warshawsky says there have been 1,767 laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza reported in Ontario. Flu vaccines are the best way to prevent influenza, according to public health experts, but there's alw...More..
Here's Where to Move to for Guaranteed Health Care
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday a plan to provide primary and specialty care for roughly 600,000 residents who now use the hospital emergency rooms in the city as primary care. "We do...More..
Healthcare Facility Chief Quits After Woman in Coma Gives Birth
He refused to say whether the hospital would subject its male staff members to DNA tests to help identify a suspect. It is unclear if any employees have responded to the police's request. " It is my hope that j...More..
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio guarantees comprehensive health care to all residents
The city said it would also "double down" on its efforts to increase enrollment in MetroPlus, which provides free or affordable health insurance that connects insurance-eligible New Yorkers to a network of prov...More..
Flu season now in full effect
Crystal White Shield knows the toll flu can take. "So it can protect them against that later bump if we do have it this year". Allison, a kindergartner in Missoula, Montana, loved to dance and to hang out wit...More..
American doctor possibly exposed to Ebola brought to U.S. for treatment
This person has no Ebola symptoms but will be monitored for up to 2 weeks in Omaha , Nebraska, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo is the...More..