by Research Team | Jan 11, 2015 | Health News
Dorothy “Dottie” Thomas, the research partner and wife of the Nobel laureate who pioneered the bone marrow transplant, has died in her Seattle-area home at 92. Her death Friday was announced by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Her...
by Research Team | Jan 11, 2015 | Health News
The Herald-Mail reports Western Maryland Hospital Center put a quarantine into effect late Wednesday for its nursing home section. David Davis, the chief operating officer, says the quarantine will remain in effect until the last patient infected with the flu is...
by Research Team | Jan 10, 2015 | Health News
B.C. poultry farmers are ready to declare the end of the deadly avian flu outbreak, although they still face a long road to recovery and a constant threat from wild birds. The president of a group representing farmers who raise turkeys, chickens and eggs said it has...
by Research Team | Jan 10, 2015 | Health News
Regine Gries has been bitten by more than 1,000 bedbugs each week for the last five years and she allowed it to happen. Now her literal blood sacrifice has paid off.
by Research Team | Jan 10, 2015 | Health News
The Republican-led House of Representatives voted on Thursday to ease Obamacare’s health insurance requirements for employers by approving the first of an expected series of bills aimed at weakening the overall healthcare reform law. Only 12 Democrats broke with...
by Research Team | Jan 10, 2015 | Health News
Five more people who visited Disney theme parks in California last month have fallen ill with measles, bringing the number of cases in the state to a dozen, local health officials said Friday. Six patients in Southern California’s Orange County have been...
