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US officials report a record number of tick diseases
The 2017 tally of more than 59,000 cases is a 22 percent increase from the previous year. Lyme disease accounted for nearly three-quarters of the illnesses. That's about 43,000...
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Food safety officials stress safe handling of raw turkey
With Thanksgiving approaching, food safety officials are stressing the importance of proper handling and cooking practices as a nationwide outbreak of drug-resistant Salmonella...
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USDA urged to name turkey brands linked to salmonella outbreak
One person has died.
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Mental health campaign shows promise among Los Angeles youth
A community engagement campaign that encourages youth to engage with mental health issues and to break down barriers to mental health care access reached more than one in five...
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Providers' Missteps Worsened L.A. Mumps Outbreak
Study suggests wrong diagnoses allowed illness to spread
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Loneliness Can Sabotage Your Health, but It's Never Too Late to Make New Connections
While alone time now and then is a real blessing , feeling alone all the time can pose some actual risks to your health. "There is a difference between time alone and...
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Health authorities warn next superbug pandemic will kill "millions". and nations aren't doing anything to stop it
When you think of a pandemic, global disease outbreaks like the Spanish flu that killed 50 million in the early 1900s or the more recent HIV/AIDS pandemic are what usually come...
6 hours ago - Natural News
EU and industry-funded project aims to personalize diabetes treatment
Diabetes is a chronic and incurable illness linked to blood sugar that has traditionally been divided into type 1 and type 2. Type 2 accounts for the vast majority of cases...
6 hours ago - News Medical
Physician-level continuity critical to lower health care costs, hospitalizations
Higher levels of physician-level continuity were strongly associated with lower total health care costs and hospitalizations, even among seriously ill patients, according to...
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Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will rage on for another six months
Peter Salama, the World Health Organization's emergency response chief, says makeshift medical centres which don't have running water and reuse needles are spreading ebola.
9 hours ago - Daily Mail
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Low carb diets DO work and are the best way to help slimmers keep weight...
A new study from Boston Children's Hospital has found that levels of ghrelin, a hormone that increases appetite, were lower in those on a low-carb diet than a high-carb diet.
3 Natural drinks that can promote weight loss
When it comes to weight loss methods, fad diets are the least effective. The key to losing weight is following a healthy diet and exercising regularly. You can also shed the...
Nearly 50,000 women are 'at risk of cervical cancer' because of an NHS...
A blunder by the company Capita, which failed to send letters to thousands of women inviting them to cervical screening appointments, has been called 'incredibly serious' and...
Researchers say that a traditional Ethiopian plant shows potential as a...
It might have been eliminated as a public health problem in the U.S., but malaria continues to plague many other parts of the world. In Ethiopia, the infectious disease is...
Vitamin C can prevent gout
Vitamin C has been reported to prevent and treat infection, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Another study has shown that it can also prevent gout. Gout is one of the most...
Diet Fluctuations May Elevate the Risk for Heart Disease, Diabetes
Changes in eating patterns may be closely linked to cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk factors, finds a new study.
World Diabetes Day: Obesity Among Diabetics On the Rise in Urban India
Obesity among diabetics is on the rise in India and majority of patients prefer to have fewer large meals than small meals, reveals a new study on type 2 diabetes patients in...
Hope for Parkinson's patients as scientists discover how to destroy toxic...
Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington DC have discovered blocking a certain protein in the brain can clear away nerve damaging build-ups.
Thousands of diabetes patients to get life-changing glucose monitors
Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, has stepped in to end a ‘postcode lottery' which saw many people denied access to the life-changing devices as used by Theresa...
Drinking three cups of coffee a day slashes your risk of developing type 2...
Researchers trawled through 30 studies, which involved nearly 1.2million people, to make the conclusion. They presented their findings at a conference in Berlin.