You're most contagious before you even know you're sick. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established National Influenza Immunization Week (NIVW) in 2005 to highlight the impor...

On Friday, Ocasio-Cortez gave a speech and talked about how grateful she was to win New York's 14th District, saying, "We've done what we thought was impossible". "We dig deep, and we did it", Ocasio-...

The decline is not the cause of some new widespread disease, rather the cause of something preventable. To try and quantify how much lives in the United States might have been shortened by firearms ...

The donor was 45-years-old and had borne three children in her lifetime before dying of a stroke. The baby was delivered by way of a cesarean section on December 15, 2017 at around 36 weeks into the...

Most of the children with confirmed cases experienced a viral illness with symptoms including fever and cough about three to 10 days before the onset of paralysis , the CDC said this month . Compe...

Many scientists condemned He for violating fundamental human ethics. China's National Health Commission announced it will investigate the scientist who claims to have created the first gene-edit...

Joe Crowley (D-NY), who she defeated in the Democrat primary in New York's 14th congressional district on a promise to abolish ICE and cancel all student debt. It is true that Ocasio-Cortez pulled off...

But of those, only three donors have her rare blood type - including one in London. "This was the worst thing we were expecting". Neuroblastoma commonly occurs in either one of the two adrenal gla...

It's an opportunity to recommit to the global fight against HIV, to show support for people living with HIV, and to remember those who have died from AIDS or AIDS-related illnesses. Yet, the spread of...

Such sell down will be in tranches and at such times as GSK considers appropriate, taking into account market conditions. The merger of GSK Consumer with HUL will be on a basis of a share swap r...

In Chandigarh, there are around 6,303 HIV patients seeking treatment at various facilities. It is a time for people to unite in the fight against the spread of HIV, show support for people living with...

Officials say it's never too late to get a flu shot , though it takes about two weeks for the immunization to take effect. "I don't know any health provider that doesn't get their flu shot because ...

Previous study found that 46% of type 2 diabetes patients went into remission following low-calorie weight management. The pilot will be run as part of the national diabetes prevention program...

The three countries together are home to nearly half of all stunted children in the world. Reducing food waste could also improve nutrition , said Sir John Beddington, co-chair of the Global Pane...

Her daughter helped record a video on Facebook asking for help finding her mom a donor match. Susie Rabaca was diagnosed after she fell pregnant with twins . The 36-year-old mother from Carson,...

In other parts of the world, longhorned ticks are known to spread diseases, including the bacterial infections babesiosis , ehrlichiosis, theileriosis and rickettsiosis, as well as certain viral dise...

As the world celebrates Worlds AIDS DA on Saturday the country's now listed as having the world's largest antiretroviral treatment programme. He said he had chose to speak out to help others seek ...

Measles is just the first wave of disease that shows up when kids are not vaccinated, said Dr. Peter Hotez, a pediatrician and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College...

The scariest thing about allergies is that you don't always know what you are sensitive to. Estelle was rushed to emergency by her mother, but her condition worsened in the auto on the way there-h...

The UN's global health body says the Ebola outbreak in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the second-biggest ever recorded. So far this outbreak declared on August 1, has 198 confir...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was present when Mr Russell-Moyle made the announcement, of which he felt "relieved" to have done so. HIV testing is important to facilitate treatment and ensuring that all...

Climate change poses a serious health risk to the public, said 150 experts from United States. "Rapidly phasing out coal, oil and gas; switching from vehicle trips to more walking, cycling and public...

He also said that he wanted to bring awareness that the world is on the cusp of eradicating HIV "but we are at a fault in the road" with cuts to public health threatening a universal roll-out of PrEP,...

It will help them better "read" data and identify information such as patient diagnosis, treatments, dosages or symptoms. Unstructured medical data, of course, includes free-form but clinically sign...

The MP, who was previously vice president of the European Youth Forum, added: "Those who have HIV or who have recently been diagnosed should know that they are free to pursue every aspect of public li...

Each of the subjects who had been prescribed physical activity , have played for 45 minutes, three times a week. The first group did endurance training (running), the second group did high-intensity ...

The estimate of how long a person born in 2017 can expect to live in the United States is 78.6 years, a decrease of 0.1 year from 2016, the government statisticians say. The death rate for heart disea...

There are 15 cases in Colorado, the state with the highest number, followed by Texas with 14 confirmed cases. Ninety percent of cases have been in children under the age of 18, with the majority of pa...

The report , called "Suicide Mortality in the United States, 1999-2017", was based on government records. In 2016, there were 45,000. It is the third straight year life expectancy in the U.S. The c...

Moreover, the rate per 100,000 people was much higher in Eastern Europe - 51.1 - than the 6.4 per 100,000 in Western Europe, the report said. National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) National Progra...

The increase partly reflects the nation's growing and aging population. A third report from the CDC found that the rate of death from sucide increased almost 4 percent from 2016 to 2017. Accidental ...

But despite how common this is, little research has actually been done in the area. However, one of the participants waited two weeks, but returns his head he did not wait - apparently, he just coul...

HM Inspector of Constabulary Zoe Billingham warned yesterday that the knock-on effect was that forces were able to attend and investigate fewer crimes. Other services need to stop relying on the 24/7 ...

It said: "The need to protect public health, whilst not stifling innovation, must be carefully balanced". The House of Lords peer was appointed head of a review into the mesh implants which was orde...

The propulsive pace of technological development has put genetic science on a crash course with seemingly intractable problems of medical ethics, the desirability of designer babies , overlapping r...