by Research Team | Apr 30, 2015 | Health News
Local and state health officials say potato salad made with home-canned potatoes is to blame for the more than 20 cases of botulism in Lancaster, Ohio, last week. All of those who are sick ate at a potluck dinner at Cross Pointe Free Will Baptist Church on April 19....
by Research Team | Apr 30, 2015 | Health News
Anthem’s first-quarter earnings jumped 23 per cent thanks in part to a spike in Medicaid enrolment, and it became the latest health insurer to raise its forecast for the year after breezing past Wall Street’s expectations. The nation’s second largest...
by Research Team | Apr 30, 2015 | Health News
Japan’s largest drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. has agreed to pay $2.4 billion to thousands of patients and their families over its diabetes drug Actos which has been linked to cancer.
by Research Team | Apr 30, 2015 | Health News
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is already the third leading cause of death in the world, and a new European study finds the respiratory illness might also raise a person’s odds for sudden cardiac death. COPD is a progressive and incurable illness that...
by Research Team | Apr 29, 2015 | Health News
Researchers have identified a new genetic mutation strongly linked to hereditary breast cancer in two specific populations of French-Canadian and Polish women. The Canadian-Polish research team found recurrent mutations in the RECQL gene among the women, who have a...
by Research Team | Apr 29, 2015 | Health News
Emerging research from the Institute of Child Health at University College London found the UK has a “high and rising” diabetes mortality rate compared with the EU among 15-to-24-year-olds from 2000 onwards. For children aged from one to 14, however, there...
