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House makes it official: Van Drew’s no longer a Democrat

Doing what's right shouldn't be complicated. "Rep. Van Drew's signature on the discharge petition is a great victory for saving precious children who survive ...

Intermittent fasting: Eating less may lead to living longer

But instead of limiting what you eat, it restricts when you eat. She participates in an intermittent fasting diet. Study creator Mark Mattson, a teacher of ...

Flu season surpasses previous year, still time to get vaccinated

New data from the CDC released on Friday estimates that so far this season, at least 6.4 million people have caught the flu, 55,000 people have been hospitalize...

Scientists find how creams, cosmetics cause skin rash

The researcher whose name is Annemieke de Jong is a Ph.D. and is the assistant professor in the Columbia University of dermatology has said that these chemicals...

Record 760 patients waiting for beds in Irish hospitals this morning

All three hospitals are now extremely busy and, in the interest of patient safety, are asking the public to first visit their GP before arriving at a hospital. ...

Astronaut receives treatment for blood clot during ISS mission

The International Space Station hovers just 250 miles above the surface of the Earth. As the report points out, it was the first time that NASA had register...

Flu hospitalizations spike across Wisconsin with 11 deaths

State Health Officer Jeanne Ayers urged anyone who has not had an annual flu shot to get one. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that of the more than 1,800...

The Two Democrats Determined to See Roe v. Wade Overturned

This abortion-related challenge will be the court's first since President Donald Trump's two nominees, Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, took the b...

Prince William voices soccer-themed ad for Heads Up mental health campaign

Prince William narrates the videos , which include personal messages from Chelsea manager Frank Lampard , Tottenham star Dele Alli, and other figures from th...

State reports another death from the flu

The graph below is retrieved directly from CDC. Last week, 9,211 laboratory-confirmed flu cases were reported to the State Department of Health, a 74-percent in...

Trump administration warns Congress Iran could retaliate against United States 'within weeks'

United States officials have said 3,000 additional troops will be sent to the Middle East as a precaution. Iraqi state television says there has been another...

Number of flu deaths rise, one reported in Lancaster County

Statewide, flu cases are well ahead of past year at this same time. In the 2018-2019 flu season DPH reported 3,506 people hospitalized with flu-associated illne...

Students Need Vaccines Before Returning To School

The district is hosting three free immunization clinics over the winter break to help students get in compliance. The bill's passage followed a measles o...

Delivering TB vaccine intravenously dramatically improves potency, study shows

According to the World Health Organization's Global Tuberculosis Report 2019, there were 10 million new cases of TB and 1.2 million TB deaths globally in 20...

Drug Companies Ring in the New Year With Higher Prices

Under pressure from politicians and sufferers, many manufacturers of branded drugs have pledged to keep their US list price increases under 10% a year. Hoveri...

Study hints on the surprising benefits of drinking whole milk

The NHS advice is for older children to consume lower fat milks because "having too much fat in your diet can result in you becoming overweight". The research...

Haul to stop hiring nicotine users in 21 states

The moving and storage company says the change is an attempt to " promote and empower " a healthier workforce, according to a news release. In a statement, th...

Wuhan pneumonia outbreak spurs fever checks in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan

Initial laboratory tests found no "apparent human-to-human transmission" and so far no medical staff had been infected, the statement said. SARS killed 349 ...

New Dementia Vaccine May Proceed to Clinical Trials After Successful Testing

The investigators found that the tau levels detected in participants' brains at the start of the study predicted how much degeneration would occur within a ye...

Doctors bested by AI in breast cancer detection

This is a great demonstration of how these technologies can enable and augment the human expert . Breast cancer is one of the more common forms of cancer, a...

Viral pneumonia outbreak confirmed in Wuhan

However, the health commission said the cause of the outbreak was still unclear and called on citizens not to panic. All the patients have been put in quarantin...

UVM Doc: Sanders Has 'Mental and Physical Stamina' for Presidency

LeWinter wrote that the 78-year-old Vermont senator continues to receive "several" medications that patients commonly take after a heart attack and that he sees...

Why it's so hard to stick with New Year's resolutions

There'll be no clink, clink, fizz when the clock strikes 12 - I last drank alcohol 20 years ago - and no whispered pledges indicating a change of lifestyle, a ...

Ted Cruz: ‘Certainly Possible’ That Several Republicans Vote to Remove Trump

The vote came months after a whistleblower complaint that alleged Trump tried to use the power of the presidency to coerce Ukraine to investigate the Bidens f...

Two flu-related deaths reported in Florida

A second influenza-related death in someone over 65-years-old has been reported by the Douglas County Health Department (DCHD). The most recently released Cente...

Study Finds Exercise Linked to Lower Risk of 7 Different Cancers

Dr Alpa Patel, a co-author of the study from the American Cancer Society, said: 'The exciting thing about these results is that they demonstrate engaging in a s...

All Eyes On Potential Swing Votes As Senate Prepares For Impeachment Trial

That the Senate would need at least fourteen Democrats and Independents to remove her from the House, impeachment is a moot point and a waste of time over the n...

Trump, Obama tie for Americans’ most admired man of 2019

However, the independents who were polled were divided about equally between both men. No other man besides Trump and Obama was mentioned by more than 2% of res...

'Peloton husband' gives real-life girlfriend Peloton bike for Christmas

Following Peloton's viral ad from earlier this year, one would think a stationary bike would NOT be on anyone's Christmas wish lists. The actor who played t...

Study finds caffeine helps protect against the damage of a poor diet

However, you will need to drink caffeine in large amounts, meaning super-potent coffee or something which even more bite. Researchers from the Universit...

Weighs and means: Intermittent Fasting May Improve Your Health

Mattson, who has studied the health impact of intermittent fasting for 25 years, and adopted it himself about 20 years ago, writes that " intermittent fasting...

Get a DNA kit for Christmas? Here's something you need to know

It does not name any particular DNA testing companies, but counsels broadly against buying ancestry and health tests promoted with military discounts and other ...

FDA Approves Allergan’s Acute Migraine Treatment

According to the FDA, this marks the first drug in the class of oral calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor antagonists approved for the acute treatment of...

Pierce County child dies of complications from flu

The 2019-2020 flu season is off to such an unusual start that it is demonstrating traits that haven't been experienced in more than 25 years. Tennessee's coun...

Leading Republican senator hasn't ruled out Democrats' call for impeachment trial witnesses

Graham is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and was a governing chamber, comparable to a prosecutor, during the Clinton Senate recall trial. "While t...