by Research Team | Dec 12, 2014 | Health News
Primary schoolchildren across Essex and children in years 7 and 8 in South-East Essex are being offered a free nasal spray vaccine to protect them from flu. However, it’s expected that the nasal spray vaccine will be brought in for all primary schoolchildren in...
by Research Team | Dec 12, 2014 | Health News
California officials are battling the worst whooping cough epidemic to hit the state in seven decades as a recent rebound in cases raises questions about the effectiveness of the pertussis vaccine. Doctors emphasize that the inoculation has led to fewer deaths than in...
by Research Team | Dec 12, 2014 | Health News
A treatment known as ovarian suppression used along with an anti-estrogen drug normally given to older women appears to greatly reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence in some younger women, new research suggests. This combination approach — using...
by Research Team | Dec 12, 2014 | Health News
Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey says that if fellow Republican Gov. Bill Haslam succeeds in his negotiations with President Barack Obama’s administration on a special Tennessee deal for Medicaid expansion, the result could be “sellable” to skeptical state...
by Research Team | Dec 11, 2014 | Health News
Almost a quarter of people questioned in a survey had taken at least three prescribed drugs in the last week Almost half of the population of England is regularly taking prescribed drugs, with cholesterol-lowering statins, pain relief and anti-depressants among the...
by Research Team | Dec 11, 2014 | Health News
Mary Ann Mobley, who was the first Mississippian to be crowned Miss America and who then parlayed that achievement into a successful movie career, has died. She was 77 and had been battling breast cancer.
