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Title: Drinking and Your Health: A Reality Check
Category: Health News
Created: 5/9/2019 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/9/2019 12:00:00 AM

Title: How to Soothe Baby's Teething Pain Safely
Category: Health News
Created: 5/9/2019 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/9/2019 12:00:00 AM

Title: Kentucky Teen Who Refused Chickenpox Vaccination Now Has Chickenpox
Category: Health News
Created: 5/9/2019 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/9/2019 12:00:00 AM

Singapore has reported its first case of the rare monkeypox virus brought in by a Nigerian man who authorities said may have been infected by bushmeat he ate at a wedding.

As well as identifying the 25 U.S. counties at greatest risk for measles outbreaks, the researchers pinpointed the countries that contribute most to measles risk in the United States: India, China, Mexico, Japan, Ukraine, Philippines and Thailand.

Although 2016 saw two outbreaks of hepatitis A caused by contaminated food, the main reason for outbreaks has been the living conditions of drug addicts and the homeless.

Could meat-free foods that 'bleed' take the place of traditional burgers and sausages?

The True Cancer Bodies campaign was set up after what campaigners said were "misleading" adverts.

Hartlepool has had the largest fall in male life expectancy in the UK - and one of the biggest issues is drugs.

Scheme is part of £20m programme to improve medication

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Although two new studies suggest a link between mental health and psoriasis, neither paper can prove that one causes the other, only that the two are associated.

Alabama's state Senate on Thursday delayed until next week a vote on the strictest abortion bill in the United States after disagreement arose on the Senate floor about whether to allow women impregnated by rape and incest to have a legal abortion.

The prices are expected to appear in text toward the end of TV commercials, when potential side effects are being listed. The new policy, which could take effect as early as this summer, covers all brand name drugs covered by Medicare and Medicaid, which is nearly all medications.

(Reuters Health) - Almost three in four U.S. allergy specialists are prescribing tablets to ease symptoms caused by pollen, ragweed and dust at least some of the time, though they have not completely shifted away from allergy shots, a survey suggests.

The study proves an association between appendix removal and the disease, one expert said. “But more research is needed to understand the exact connection between the gut and Parkinson's

(Reuters Health) - In states where pharmacists were allowed to sell the potentially lifesaving opioid antidote naloxone without a prescription, fewer people died from opioid overdoses, a new U.S. study finds.