by Research Team | Apr 5, 2015 | Health News
The American Lung Association says Indiana’s health insurance marketplace is failing to provide all the coverage it should to help people quit smoking under President Barack Obama’s health care law. The group’s Indiana director, Tanya Hussain, says...
by Research Team | Apr 5, 2015 | Health News
When firefighters arrived to extinguish a house fire on Detroit’s west side, it wasn’t just burning wood they smelled, WJBK-TV reported Saturday. “We smelled something.
by Research Team | Apr 5, 2015 | Health News
The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry is encouraging owners of domestic bird and poultry to take additional biosecurity precautions after two new strains of avian influenza have been found in wild waterfowl and domestic poultry. In the past month,...
by Research Team | Apr 4, 2015 | Health News
A bird flu strain that’s deadly to poultry has shown up in a commercial turkey flock in South Dakota and a fourth turkey farm in Minnesota. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday it has confirmed the H5N2 strain in a flock of 53,000 turkeys in eastern...
by Research Team | Apr 4, 2015 | Health News
PetSmart has closed a Chicago-area boarding center to contain the spread of the canine flu virus, and says it will close two other locations. The company said transferred all of the dogs out of a PetsHotel in Lincoln Park, asking owners to pick up their dogs if they...
by Research Team | Apr 4, 2015 | Health News
Politicians have come up with myriad alleged reasons for the dismal vote turnouts seen across California in this spring’s municipal elections – not even reaching 10 percent of eligible voters in the state’s biggest city, Los Angeles. But these...