by Research Team | Jan 20, 2015 | Health News
An Egyptian woman and child died of H5N1 bird flu, the health ministry said on Monday, the fourth and fifth persons to die of the illness in the country this year. The six-year-old child died in Minya province on Monday evening, after a 47-year-old woman succumbed to...
by Research Team | Jan 20, 2015 | Health News
A Chinese newspaper has come under fire for taking photos of the body of Yao Beina, a popular singer, at a hospital morgue after her death from breast cancer. The Shenzhen Evening News issued an apology on Sunday on their official Sina Weibo account, a widely used...
by Research Team | Jan 20, 2015 | Health News
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, who has come under criticism for his stance on Medicaid expansion, says Alabama must work to make health care more accessible and affordable. The former Tuscaloosa physician used his second inaugural address Monday to list improving the...
by Research Team | Jan 20, 2015 | Health News
The booming popularity of outdoor kitchens among homeowners in the San Francisco Bay Area has an increasing number of their neighbors coughing and hacking from the smoke, leading air-quality officials to consider tightening rules on wood-burning pizza ovens and...
by Research Team | Jan 20, 2015 | Health News
Drugmaker AbbVie says its new, multipill hepatitis C treatment has been approved for patients in the 28 European Union member countries. The company, based in North Chicago, Illinois, says the European Commission granted marketing authorization for its treatment...
by Research Team | Jan 20, 2015 | Health News
Officials said ordering unvaccinated pupils away from a measles hit OC school was the only way they could prevent the disease from spreading further. Annette Arreola reports for Today in LA on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015 Twenty students who have not been vaccinated against...