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Texas surf resort tested after 'brain-eating amoeba' death

Naegleria fowleri can not be contracted by swallowing contaminated water, according to the CDC . The infection has a 97 percent fatality rate, according to ...

Texas surf resort closed for ‘brain-eating amoeba’ testing

Fabrizio Stabile, 29, died September 21, according to his obituary. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is conducting tests on the water at...

Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Scientists Who Developed Breakthrough Cancer Treatment

Allison studied a protein on T cells called CTLA-4 that acts as a brake on the immune system. Their research has led to the development of drugs that release t...

Kavanaugh Apologizes To Klobuchar For Asking Her If She's Ever Blacked Out

Kavanaugh's high school friend, Mark Judge - who was also allegedly in the room when Christine Blasey Ford says she was assaulted - wrote a book about his...

Spokane Regional Health District offers free flu vaccine clinics

Flu vaccination decreases the chances that you will spread the virus to others. Older adults and those with certain chronic health conditions, including he...

Doctor Urge Early Vaccinations As Flu Season Approaches

Saddler, MD, MPH, District Director of Health with the Northern Kentucky Health Department. Flu season, when the highest number of illnesses emerge, generally t...

Children’s Brain Development Affected By Long Screen Time, Finds US Study

The study followed more than 4,500 U.S. children aged between eight and 11, noting how much of their day involved recreational screen time , physical activity ...

Blasey Ford says '100 percent' certain Kavanaugh assaulted her

Kavanaugh has denied all allegations. I wish that I could express the confidence that some of my colleagues have conveyed about what either did or did not happe...

GOP governors want Senate to delay vote on Kavanaugh

Brett Kavanaugh looked in desperate need of a fighter on his behalf Thursday as he gave impassioned testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee denying allegat...

World Health Organization suspends work on Ebola in Congo amid militant attacks

WHO's Emergency Response Chief and Australian epidemiologist, Peter Salama , told a news conference in Geneva that Ebola had claimed 100 lives since the deadl...

Everson Griffen (personal) ruled out for Vikings Week 4

A little later, Griffen left his vehicle at a gas station and rode home with a man who said he didn't know Griffen and was shaking when he met officers waitin...

Flu Shot Season is Upon Us

Quadrivalent influenza vaccine (designed to protect against four different flu viruses) will be available for anyone 6 months of age and older. It takes about t...

Is Daily Low-Dose Aspirin Really Worth It for Seniors?

Of the aspirin-takers, 3.8% experienced serious bleeding compared to 2.8% in the placebo group. But based on the findings, Dr. Evan Hadley of the National ...

Drowning victims in Horry sheriff van caught in flood waters are identified

Deputies waited on top of the van until high-water rescue teams arrived. "Just like you, we have questions we want answered", he said. The incident is under i...

Apple Watch inching toward medical device

If you're looking to upgrade to a new Apple Watch Series 4, switch between aluminum or stainless steel, or simply aren't using your Watch anymore and want to ...

Daily aspirin may be harmful for healthy, older adults, large study finds

Their findings were published Sunday in The New England Journal of Medicine . But when researchers looked at more than 19,000 people in Australia and the U...

Low-dose aspirin doesn't extend healthy living in older people

The researchers point out that ASPREE's findings relate only to healthy older people, aged over 70 years, and do not apply to those taking aspirin on medical ad...

High-quality heart readings in new Apple Watch

The Watch Series 4 was described as an "intelligent guardian for your health" by Apple's COO, Jeff Williams . New finishes include stainless and gold stain...

Bangladesh women more at health risk than men due to inactivity

Physical activity - which includes all everyday movement, not just exercise - lowers the risk of developing cardiovascular disease , high blood pressure, di...

Time's up for Theranos: Blood-testing company to dissolve

Enjoying this story? Subscribe to FierceBiotech! Founded in 2003 by then teenage Stanford dropout Elizabeth Holmes , Theranos grew into a $ 9 billion firm bas...

Embattled blood-testing firm Theranos to dissolve

Starting in a basement located a few blocks away from campus, Holmes transformed her company to be worth over $1 billion in seven years time. But that unraveled...

Fraser Heath investigating outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Surrey, B.C.

State officials say one person has died from Legionnaires' Disease as an outbreak in Hampton continues to grow. The NH DHHS says tests carried about by the ...

Blood pressure medicine recalled over potentially 'life-threatening' mix-up

Those who are prescribed to take Accord's Hydrochlorothiazide Tablets USP 12.5 should make sure the pills are light orange to peach colored, round, and biconve...

Fact-checking the Florida candidates for governor and US Senate

Ron DeSantisRonald Dion DeSantisGillum wins stunner and other takeaways from Arizona , Florida Sanders congratulates Gillum after Florida primary win Sander...

STD Cases In The US Reached A Grim New High In 2017

It marks the fourth consecutive year of sharp increases in STDs, the CDC said. Primary and secondary syphilis , of which there were 30,644 diagnoses in 2017,...

No safe level of alcohol, study says

There is some evidence that alcohol may reduce the risk of heart disease very slightly, but that effect is more than outweighed by the other damage it causes. T...

A blockbuster primary in Florida and three-way fight in Arizona

The president has dominated the race to replace Sen. Jeff Flake , who is retiring. Martha McSally beat back two conservative hardliners on Tuesday night, s...

Andrew Gillum wins historic Democratic nomination for Florida governor

He often said he was the only candidate in the race who wasn't a millionaire or billionaire, and won the endorsement of Vermont Sen. Gillum, 39, was up agai...

As Tributes for McCain Pour in, Trump Reaction Criticized

Referring to his close relationship with both President Donald Trump and McCain, Graham told reporters: "John felt like his view of the world had to be rein...

John McCain’s former rivals pay tribute: ‘We are all in his debt’

He also said he'd agreed to the McCain family's request for military transportation of the senator's remains from Arizona to Washington . He added that h...

Cindy And Meghan McCain Mourn John McCain With Heartbreaking Tribute

We saw this country as a place where anything is possible - and citizenship as our patriotic obligation to ensure it forever remains that way. May his life an...

Jesus Take The Wheel! Coconut Oil Reportedly ‘Pure Poison’

Here's one damning statement from an AHA presidential advisory published just a year ago: "A recent survey reported that 72% of the American public rated coc...

USA health agency's ex-director charged with groping woman

WABC says Frieden surrendered to face charges that he grabbed the buttocks of a woman he knew in his home last October. From 2002 to 2009, he served as New Yo...

Whatever Amount of Alcohol You're Drinking Is Too Much, Says New Research

Co-author Emmanuela Gakidou, also from the University of Washington said alcohol could have dire ramifications for future population health in the absence of ur...

West Nile Virus found in Perth and Ottawa mosquitoes

The virus has also infected people in Viotia, Halkidiki, Thessaloniki, Evia, Imathia, Pella, Corinth, Kilkis and Rethymno. There have been no reported human c...