by Research Team | Feb 19, 2015 | Health News
UPS deprived New York of millions of dollars in revenue by shipping nearly 700,000 cartons of untaxed cigarettes from Indian reservations to smokers statewide, despite an earlier agreement to stop, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. Attorney General Eric...
by Research Team | Feb 19, 2015 | Health News
A Hudson Valley researcher says ticks that carry Lyme disease are emerging earlier in spring and spreading into new geographic regions, a trend corresponding with data on climate warming trends. The conclusions were based on 19 years of data collected at the Cary...
by Research Team | Feb 19, 2015 | Health News
Afroman says he’s headed for inpatient anger management rehab and is remorseful for viciously striking a woman at his concert Tuesday. Afroman went on “TMZ Live” and said he was wrong to do what he did, but then he blamed a heckler and the girl who...
by Research Team | Feb 19, 2015 | Health News
The deaths of two patients at a Los Angeles hospital are linked to the deadly bacteria CRE and more than 100 other patients may have been exposed to the drug-resistant superbug, a spokeswoman for the UCLA Health Systems said Wednesday. Roxanne Yamaguchi Moster said in...
by Research Team | Feb 19, 2015 | Health News
The annual ritual of declaring a crisis in health care is upon us, with the B.C. Liberal government boasting that we have the best system in Canada, while the NDP and the B.C. Nurses’ Union try to portray it as the worst. The BCNU is the last big public sector...
by Research Team | Feb 18, 2015 | Health News
The makers of a twice-rejected pill designed to boost female libido are resubmitting their drug to federal health regulators, following a recent lobbying blitz by politicians, women’s groups and consumer advocates aimed at pushing it onto the market. Sprout...