[ad_1] By Steven ReinbergHealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Nov. 20, 2018 (HealthDay News) – Couch Potato Nation: Nearly half of Americans sit too long a day and do no exercise, a new study reveals. …
Read More »CDC steps up response to polio-like illness
[ad_1] The work of the detectives – formerly known as officers of the Epidemic Intelligence Service – is to collect data on acute flaccid myelitis, called AFM, and to try to identify …
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[ad_1] Beverley Jaundrill, 53, noticed the lump more than ten years ago but did not realize that she had continued to grow until this year when she became visible after losing her …
Read More »First case of allergy to secondhand marijuana reported
[ad_1] SEATTLE – A 6-year-old boy with severe asthma who did not respond to treatment turned out to be allergic to marijuana used at his home in what the researchers described as …
Read More »Researchers discover infectious prions in the eyes of patients with life-threatening and sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
[ad_1] Prions protein expressed in E. coli bacteria. Credit: NIAID. By the time symptoms of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are generally discovered, death is imminent and inevitable. But, in a new study, researchers …
Read More »Brain destroying prions are also spreading in the eyes of the victims
[ad_1] Image: Skitterphoto (Pixabay) One of the strangest things that can make us sick – a misfolded protein that destroys the brain, called a prion – is even more frightening than we …
Read More »A health official says to check the status of his measles vaccine
[ad_1] WHITE PLAINS, NY – Sherlita Amler, Westchester County Health Commissioner, advises county residents to check their measles immunization status and assures county residents that the Department of Health is closely monitoring …
Read More »FDA warns parents not to give honey to babies
[ad_1] The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns parents not to give honey to their babies. The warning comes after four babies in Texas developed botulism after being exposed to the treat. …
Read More »The FDA warns parents that you are not supposed to give honey to babies
[ad_1] The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns parents not to give honey to their babies. The warning comes after four babies in Texas have developed botulism after being exposed to these …
Read More »Dietary habits of mosquitoes can alter the transmission of dengue virus – PCT
[ad_1] By Kierra Sondereker At the 2017 NPMA PestWorld in Baltimore, researchers at the University of Florida explained how consumers and MPCs, especially those living and working in warmer regions of the …
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