by Research Team | Oct 14, 2015 | Health News
A nurse who is being treated for a late complication of an Ebola infection is now “critically ill” after her condition “deteriorated”, the hospital treating her has said. Pauline Cafferkey, 39, was admitted to the isolation unit at the Royal...
by Research Team | Oct 14, 2015 | Health News
But officials haven’t decided whether to give the doses to poultry to protect against a disease that led to the destruction of 48 million chickens and turkeys this spring. The Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday it had awarded contracts to Harrisvaccines...
by Research Team | Oct 14, 2015 | Health News
Drinking, and not drinking, is as old as America itself, from the beer-loving pilgrims on the Mayflower and Paul Revere’s boozy horse ride to Prohibition and the rise of Alcoholics Anonymous.
by Research Team | Oct 13, 2015 | Health News
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Monday proposed repealing and replacing President Barack Obama’s health care law with one that would increase tax credits for individuals, allowing them to buy coverage protection against “high-cost medical...
by Research Team | Oct 13, 2015 | Health News
Shares of Eli Lilly plunged Monday after the drugmaker said it would stop developing a heart disease treatment that had advanced deep into clinical testing. The Indianapolis company said researchers cited a lack of effectiveness, not safety concerns, in recommending...
by Research Team | Oct 13, 2015 | Health News
Alcoholism and sobriety loom large in the work of Susan Cheever, the recovering alcoholic daughter of the great mid-century American writer John Cheever, whose own struggles with alcohol are legendary. “My father was addicted to alcohol and it showed.