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Smoking strong pot daily raises psychosis risk, study finds

Previous studies have linked cannabis use to psychosis , a mental-health problem involving hallucinations and delusion, of which schizophrenia is a common c...

Sugary drinks may increase risk of death by heart disease

A 34 year-long study of more than 118,000 men and women across the USA released Monday in the journal Circulation suggests that people who drink more sugar-sw...

Daily aspirin no longer recommended to prevent heart attacks in older adults

The suggestions, released collectively by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association , are a turn around of previous guidance that...

Don't take aspirin daily to prevent heart attacks, doctors now say

A co-chair of the new guidelines said, "It's much more important to optimize lifestyle habits and control blood pressure and cholesterol as opposed to recommend...

1.9m Nigerians now infected with HIV/AIDS

Before the commencement of the survey, about three million Nigerians were estimated to be living with HIV and about 1.1 million of them now receiving treatmen...

Eggs linked to increased cholesterol, risk of heart disease in new study

The new study looked at pooled data on 29,615 US racially and ethnically diverse adults from six prospective cohort studies for up to 31 years of follow up. "Co...

Outcry over Trump's cuts to Medicare hospital payments

The cost-saving covers some of the mandatory programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, and programs on federal health care. Trump's 2020 budget , however, reduces...

Unvaccinated children banned from school

Under the country's so-called Lorenzin law - named after the former health minister who introduced it - children will now be required to receive a range of im...

Eye check-up to detect Alzheimer's disease

The differences in density were statistically significant after researchers controlled for factors like age, gender, and level of education. Typically, they can...

Health officials link measles outbreak to lack of vaccinations

Health officials didn't specify if the person in Jefferson County was vaccinated. To combat the outbreak, around 3000 and a further 18000 doses of measles vac...

California man learns he’s dying from doctor on video shown on robot

Mr Quintana's daughter, Catherine, told KTVU that the family was further upset because her father had trouble hearing the doctor through the speakers, forcing...

Ketamine-based drug approved for treating severe depression in the US

That means about 5 million of the 16 million people in the US with major depression might benefit from esketamine, said Courtney Billington, president of Jans...

Facebook to combat anti-vaccination content, vaccine misinformation on its platform

After Facebook's Thursday announcement, Schiff struck a cautious note on Twitter, writing, "The ultimate test will be if these measures reduce the spread of ant...

1 case of measles confirmed in 100 Mile House

New Zealand's Ministry of Health said in a statement in late February that since 2012, all cases of measles in New Zealand came from travellers bringing the di...

Clark Gregg Slams Brie Larson's Captain Marvel Trolls As Butthurt

Fans going to see Captain Marvel at the AMC Clifton Commons 16 movie theater in Clifton, New Jersey, on Saturday night were surprised with a visit from Larson...

Monthly Injections Could Replace the Daily Pill Regime of HIV Patients

It came hours after researchers reported a " London patient " was the second ever man to see the disease " cured " by a bone marrow transplant - which effective...

Finnish government resigns over failure to pass reforms

Prime Minister Juha Sipilä has described the collapse of his government over its failed social and health care reform package, " sote ", "a major disappointme...

Facebook, Instagram to remove vaccine misinformation content

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Facebook plans on preventing pages and groups that spread misinformation about vaccinations from appearing over pe...

Ebola cases in the Congo rises to more than 900 breaking record

Ebola responders were increasingly seen as the enemy, with more than 30 attacks and incidents against the Ebola response in the past month alone, she said . "C...

Esketamine Approved for Treatment-Resistant Depression

The list price of a drug is not necessarily what patients actually pay. "Substantially different agents are only rarely appearing from pharmaceutical companie...

A Second Patient in Long-Term Remission From HIV

As such, this procedure is unlikely to become a realistic treatment for HIV in the future-especially given that the antiretroviral drugs prescribed for the in...

Fitbit releases Fitbit Versa Lite, Inspire, and Ace 2 fitness products

The Lite edition is - no surprises here - the company's most lightweight smartwatch yet, although we don't now know the exact size of the device. About the ne...

18-Year-Old Testifies About Getting Vaccinated Despite Mother's Anti-Vaccine Beliefs

Ethan Lindenberger (R), student at Norwalk High School in Norwalk, Ohio, who confided in a now-viral Reddit post that he had not been fully vaccinated due ...

Ariana Grande releases new coffee drink at Starbucks

Excited about the release, Ariana Grande also tweeted about the new drink with a series of pictures of herself wearing the brand's barista apron and holding...

Man 'cured' of HIV

Not coincidentally, the stem cells that both patients received in the transplant came from donors with a double set of this rare CCR5 mutation. While a seco...

United Kingdom patient 'free' of HIV after stem cell treatment

Ten years ago, Timothy Brown - dubbed the "Berlin patient" - became the first person to be effectively cured of HIV using a similar method. Then in 2017...

Cheaper option available for insulin

As per trusted sources, the move comes at the wake of growing concerns pertaining to the rising drug prices, especially insulin, which has pushed several diabet...

Breakthrough: A Second HIV Patient Has Gone Into 'Long-Term' Remission

Brown was given two stem cell transplants and radiotherapy for leukaemia, which is considered a much more aggressive form of treatment. He remains free of...

Large Study Finds - Once Again - that Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism

Assertions that there was a connection between autism and the MMR vaccine led to an increase in parents choosing not to vaccinate their children against disea...

California Abortion Rights Lawsuit

The rule imposes what administration officials have referred to as a "bright line" of physical and financial separation between the provision of family plannin...

London Patient cleared of HIV raises hope for cure

The case is proof of the concept that scientists will one day be able to end AIDS, the doctors said, but does not mean a cure for HIV has been found. Usually,...

Recall of Blood Pressure Medicines Due to Cancer Risk

Incidentally, Hetero Labs Limited was also listed as the source of the contamination in both recalls . A voluntary recall of multiple medicines for high bloo...

Second man seems to be free of AIDS virus after transplant

Usually, HIV patients expect to stay on daily pills for life to suppress the virus. "This poses a particular challenge in developing countries", where million...

Some Adults May Need Another Measles Vaccination, Health Experts Say

Most cases have been reported from zip codes in Borough Park and Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In the Philippines last year were diagnosed 15.599 people, since the ...

Measles outbreaks lead states to reconsider vaccine exemptions

The health district confirmed a case of the measles in the area earlier this month. For a country like Canada, which declared itself free of measles in 1998, th...