Flu Season Is Here, and It’s Targeting Your Kids
(Bloomberg) -- The flu is out in force. And so far this season, it's been hitting children the hardest.Influenza is a wily virus—it's almost impossible to...
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Deadly superbugs pose greater threat than previously estimated
Drug-resistant germs sicken about 3 million people every year in the United States and kill about 35,000, representing a much larger public health threat than...
Juul halts sales of fruit, dessert flavors for e-cigarettes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Juul Labs stopped selling fruit and dessert flavors Thursday, acknowledging the public's "lack of trust" in the vaping industry. The voluntary step...
It doesn’t matter if it’s sugary or diet: New study links all soda to an early death
The study found that consumption of two or more glasses of artificially sweetened soft drinks a day was positively associated with deaths from circulatory diseases....
New HPV vaccine recommendation for people through age 45
The vaccine is recommended for preteen girls and boys to protect them before exposure to the virus, with catch-up vaccinations through age 26.
Rare brain-eating amoebas killed Seattle woman who rinsed her sinuses with tap water. Doctor warns this could happen again
Researchers said the amoebas likely got into the woman's brain through the tap water she used to fill a neti pot, rather than using saline...
Suicide, at 50-year peak, pushes down US life expectancy WATCH
The suicide death rate last year was the highest it's been in at least 50 years, according to U.S. government records. There were more than...
Alcohol-related liver deaths increase sharply, report finds
The study suggests that a new generation of Americans is being afflicted “by alcohol misuse and its complications.”
Scientists seek super-shot for flu 100 years after pandemic VIEW
A century after one of history's most catastrophic disease outbreaks, scientists are rethinking how to guard against another super-flu like the 1918 influenza that killed...
Feds employ data-driven early warning system in opioid fight VIEW
PITTSBURGH — The pain clinic tucked into the corner of a low-slung suburban strip mall was an open secret. Patients would travel hundreds of miles...
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