by Research Team | Sep 19, 2015 | Health News
Doctors have long known that systolic blood pressure below 120 was considered normal and meant a lower risk of heart disease and kidney problems. But they would often only treat patients if that top number crept above 140, the threshold for officially having high...
by Research Team | Sep 19, 2015 | Health News
Some parents’ long-simmering concerns over the safety of childhood vaccines received unexpected — and, in some quarters, unwelcome — notice during the second Republican presidential candidates’ debate. While the link between vaccines and autism...
by Research Team | Sep 19, 2015 | Health News
A new federal bird flu control policy says ventilation systems must be shut off as a means of suffocating entire poultry barns if other methods of euthanasia cannot be completed within 24 hours. It was among several new policies released by the U.S. Department of...
by Research Team | Sep 19, 2015 | Health News
South Carolina’s public health agency says customers who ate at two Hardee’s restaurants in Spartanburg County may have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus. The Department of Health and Environmental Control announced Friday the notice applies to...
by Research Team | Sep 19, 2015 | Health News
An HIV-positive man says in a federal lawsuit that he was wrongly removed from his job as a St. Louis-area air ambulance paramedic because of his illness. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Clinton Moore alleges in his St. Louis lawsuit that the decision by Air...
