The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report last week with details about a Campylobacter outbreak you may have heard about. Between 2016 and 2018, 118 people across 18 states were infected. Twenty-four percent of them had to be hospitalized, and fortunately, everyone recovered. The source? Puppies from […]
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A member of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot said Tuesday he’s recovering after two weeks in intensive care for a suspected poisoning while a fellow activist suggested he could have been targeted for looking into the killings of Russian journalists in Africa. Pyotr Verzilov has been at Berlin’s Charite […]
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – More than 11,000 people in Sudan’s eastern state of Kassala have been infected over the past month by Chikungunya, a debilitating mosquito-borne viral disease, but no deaths have been reported, a Sudanese official said on Tuesday. Chikungunya is spread by two mosquito species and can cause severe […]
The number of U.S. babies born infected with syphilis has reached the highest level in 20 years. It is still rare for babies to get syphilis from their infected mothers, but figures released Tuesday show more than 900 cases were reported last year. That’s more than double the number in […]
One in three Americans age 45 and over are lonely, which may harm their quality of life and also pose health risks, according to a new national survey. The greatest apparent predictors of loneliness are the size of a person’s social network and physical isolation, according to the survey of […]
PARIS (Reuters) – Lesbian couples and single women who want to bear children should have access to medically assisted reproductive treatments such as in-vitro fertilization, France’s highest bioethics body said on Tuesday. Amandine Giraud and her wife Laurene Corral pose with their children Makenzy and Leandre conceived with fertility assistance […]
This story is from Kaiser Health News A proposed rule from the White House would make it harder for legal immigrants to get green cards if they have received certain kinds of public assistance — including Medicaid, food stamps and housing subsidies. Green cards allow them to live and work […]
GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that an Ebola outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo could worsen rapidly because of attacks by armed groups, community resistance and the geographic spread of the disease. FILE PHOTO: A medical worker wears a protective suit as he prepares […]