The House was scheduled to vote Thursday morning on a revised version of the Republicans’ bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, despite not having a Congressional Budget Office analysis of how much the latest bill would cost or its …
Last Updated May 3, 2017 10:46 PM EDT. Have researchers taken a step closer to developing an eventual cure for HIV? A Temple University-led team hopes so, by using a gene editing technique to successfully remove HIV infection from lab mice.
(CNN) Summer is nearly here, and it’s bringing fears of a rare tick-borne disease called Powassan. This potentially life-threatening virus is carried and transmitted by three types of ticks, including the deer tick that transmits Lyme disease.
“Gluten-free diet can do more harm than good for people without coeliac disease,” The Independent reports, as a new study found that the “trendy gluten-free diets loved by Gwyneth Paltrow and Russell Crowe may increase the risk of heart disease …
An evolving community in the big city of Minneapolis is fighting a dangerous virus — and a battle of beliefs. The largest measles outbreak in the Minnesota city in 25 years, this April, affected 34 people primarily between the ages of 0 to 5 …
More than 39 percent of U.S. households have both landline and cellphone service. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File). NEW YORK – Deborah Braswell, a university administrator in Alabama, is a member of a dwindling group – people with a landline phone …
Straub Medical Center nurse Janelle Carroll administered a Hepatitis A vaccine to Brian Murdock in September. An additional Hep A vaccine booster is required six months later and is effective for about 25 years.
NEW YORK (CNN) – Whether you watch what you eat by counting your daily calories or practicing intermittent fasting, either approach can be effective for weight loss, a new obesity study suggests.
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Openly talking about mental health is a hard, yet healthy conversation to have in the age of social media, police brutality, racial tension and Trump presidency.
Even a relatively mild Zika outbreak in the United States could cost more than $183 million in medical costs and productivity losses, suggests a computational analysis led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers, while a more …
Workers in Ecuador spray insecticide to kill Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread dengue, chikungunya and Zika diseases. Stanford scientists are researching the temperatures that promote mosquito activity.
PROSTATE CANCER is one of the most deadly cancers among men in the UK and symptoms can be hard to spot. However, a new blood test could predict which men with advanced prostate cancer will respond to new targeted treatments for the disease.
Johnson & Johnson and Bayer AG aren’t responsible for a Xarelto user’s internal bleeding, a jury found in the first trial over the blood-thinning drug.
This video from the Alzheimer’s Society explains that Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. It occurs when abnormal deposits of plaque and tangles – made up of two key proteins, amyloid and tau – occur in the brain.
Washington (CNN) Preparing for a procedure to fix an abnormal heart rhythm Thursday, Sen. Dick Durbin called on his colleagues in Congress to reconsider their plans to cut funding for medical research and repeal Obamacare.
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