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HIV patient donates her kidney in the US

This allowed researchers to examine the feasibility of an HIV-to-HIV organ transplant , where both donor and recipient are still alive. Only in the last few ...

USA county declares state of emergency amid measles outbreak

Rockland County enacted the emergency order Tuesday night to fight a measles outbreak that has infected more than 150 people since last fall. The order bans ...

Robert Mueller Report To Be Released By Mid-April, Says Attorney General

House Democrats have suggested they may subpoena the report if it is not delivered by next week. Another Democratic staffer said that, in a call with House Judi...

State of emergency over measles outbreak goes into effect in Rockland NY

Sign the petition here . The emergency order, which took effect at midnight, says that children who have not been vaccinated must stay away from schools, ...

Case of measles confirmed in person who visited mall near Toronto

Symptoms of the measles include fever, red eyes, a runny nose, sensitivity to light and a red rash on the face or body. Island Health said in the past four we...

Bay State Delegation Assails Trump Administration Bid To Upend Obamacare

And you can see it since the Mueller report came out, what are they talking about? President Trump's Rule jeopardized state health care exchanges around the...

Federal judge blocks proposed work requirements for Medicaid in KY

The plaintiffs are 10 Arkansas residents who depend on Medicaid. "The message to other states considering work requirements is clear - they are not compatible...

Teen Dies From Tapeworms in the Brain

His parents said that their son had felt pain in his right groin for a week. The cystic lesions, doctors said, were consistent with neurocysticercosis , a ta...

FDA proposes changes to breast cancer screening

Laurie Margolies, section chief of breast imaging at Mount Sinai Health System, in New York City. Nancy Cappello, who led the push for legislation to provid...

How many cigarettes in a bottle of wine?

The team estimated that if 1,000 non-smoking men and 1,000 non-smoking women each drank one bottle of wine per week across their lifetime, around 10 men and 1...

Artificial intelligence can predict premature death, study finds

An AI system was recently trained to evaluate a decade of generational health data submitted by over a half million people in the United Kingdom, then the AI sy...

Centene to buy WellCare in $17.3bn USA healthcare deal

Centene's acquisition of WellCare would reduce the number of private insurers administering Medicaid in Illinois' managed care program to five if Centene's Illi...

Bene primo test per il 'pillolo', pochi gli effetti collaterali

Un giorno gli uomini potranno prendere la pillola al posto della donne per evitare il concepimento di un bambino? USA Test clinici positivi per la versio...

New York, luoghi pubblici vietati a bimbi non vaccinati

Bambini e ragazzi sotto i 18 anni non regolarmente vaccinati da oggi, quindi, non potranno accedere agli spazi pubblici più affollati (compresi istituti scolast...

North Carolina hospital uses drones to fly blood samples between buildings

Menlo Park, California-based Matternet, which raised funds from Boeing Co. last year, is operating the drone at WakeMed as part of the Federal Aviation Admi...

Inchiostri per tatuaggi cancerogeni, ecco i colori pericolosi

Il Ministero della Salute ha reso pubblici tre specifici avvisi per togliere dal mercato tre tipologie di colori utilizzati; contengono sostanze molto danno...

NY county bans unvaccinated children from public spaces amid measles outbreak

Among the measures: a 30-day ban on any unvaccinated people under the age of 18 from being in public places. "We want people to understand this is serious", s...

'Il cervello continua a produrre neuroni fino a 90 anni'

Il cervello dell'uomo sarebbe in grado di rinnovarsi anche in età adulta , generando nuovi neuroni addirittura fino ai 90 anni . La nascita delle nuove ce...

US experts: Too soon to pull breast implants tied to cancer

Roughly 300,000 women reportedly opt to go under the knife each year to have their breasts surgically augmented, with another 100,000 women receiving implants f...

Mumps outbreak at Temple University reaches 105 cases

She says she was initially "freaked out" by the outbreak (backslash) but now is just focusing on the facts. In response to the outbreak that's spreading throu...

Corpi estranei nello zucchero, ecco la marca e il lotto contaminato

Il richiamo disposto dal dicastero è una misura precauzionale cautelativa. Dalla lettura del documento ufficiale pubblicato sul sito salute.gov.it, si evidenz...

Adesso è ufficiale: la birra non fa ingrassare

Lo rivela una ricerca condotta da AstraRicerche per AssoBirra . La ricerca di AssoBirra , riportata da Repubblica , mette in evidenza la percezione d...

Federal Judge Tosses Medicaid Work Requirements

U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg issued two decisions Wednesday finding that Medicaid work requirements for low-income people in Arkansas and Kentucky po...

Steep rise in marijuana-related ER visits in Colorado hospital since legalization

There was a three-fold increase in cannabis-associated emergency department visits at the UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campu...

Doctors recommend sugary drinks tax

Almost half of those are coming from drinks alone, with children consuming an average of 30 gallons of sugary drinks annually. It calls for additional taxes acr...

New York's Rockland County Bars Unvaccinated Minors From Public Spaces

A county in NY state has declared a state of emergency following a severe outbreak of measles. "Effective at the stroke of midnight, Wednesday, anyone who is ...

New male contraceptive pill deemed safe after trial breakthrough

It could still be 10 years before we see male oral contraception hitting our shelves. The 40 participants who took place in the study experienced decreased le...

Trump Administration reverses course, supports decision to strike down ACA

That appears to have changed. Their action came a day after President Donald Trump asked the federal courts to throw out the entire bill, taking health ins...

Green New Deal stalls in Senate after largely political debate

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of NY, the resolution's sponsor in the House, recognize that the program's significance extends beyond any particular policy plank. Oca...

NY county bans unvaccinated minors in public as measles spreads

Rockland public health authorities have been tracking measles cases amid an unrelenting anti-vaccine movement and outbreaks across the country. As of last wee...