by Research Team | Aug 18, 2015 | Health News
Rhode Island health officials say there are no plans to change a new requirement that middle school students in the state get the HPV vaccine even though some parents, and now some lawmakers, have expressed concerns. Children entering seventh grade in September must...
by Research Team | Aug 18, 2015 | Health News
Pakistan and Afghanistan must intensify efforts to halt spread of the crippling poliovirus, including better screening of travellers heading abroad, the World Health Organization said on Monday. The WHO emergency committee of experts warned in a statement that...
by Research Team | Aug 18, 2015 | Health News
Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker’s plan for replacing President Barack Obama’s health care law would extend refundable tax credits to help pay for private health insurance based on age instead of income, restructure Medicaid and allow people...
by Research Team | Aug 17, 2015 | Health News
A 10 kilometre surveillance zone and an inner three kilometre protection zone were placed around the farm in Goosnargh, near Preston, where birds were also culled. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said movement restrictions had been lifted 21...
by Research Team | Aug 17, 2015 | Health News
Iowa poultry farmers are bracing for the possibility that bird flu will return this fall when wild birds migrate, but they hope the disease won’t return. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports the industry that had to slaughter more than 35 million chickens...
