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November 5, 2019
The Congolese medical authorities said Saturday they had received the first shipment of a new Ebola vaccine as the central African country battles its second deadliest outbreak of the virus this decade.
November 5, 2019
A new study released Monday has found that hundreds of thousands of Canadians, including children in daycares and schools, have been drinking water contaminated with lead.
November 4, 2019
The number of Indians diagnosed with cancer more than tripled between 2017 and 2018, according to a new government report.
November 3, 2019
A domestic drug for treating Alzheimer\'s disease has been approved by the National Medical Products Administration to hit the market, according to its developers.
November 2, 2019
Malaria is a serious tropical disease: One mosquito bite can be fatal.
October 31, 2019
New information published by scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Health suggests that gut bacteria and its interactions with immune cells and metabolic organs, including fat tissue, play a key role in childhood obesity.
October 30, 2019
Trained community pharmacists in New Zealand will deliver MMR measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations in the latest step of the government\'s plan to battle measles outbreaks.
October 29, 2019
Nearly 900 children in the small Pakistani city of Ratodero were bedridden early this year with raging fevers that resisted treatment. Parents were frantic, with everyone seeming to know a family with a sick child.
October 28, 2019
MOVES to ban children under-12 heading the ball has been described as a “smart move†by the author of a groundbreaking report on the link between football and dementia.
October 25, 2019
A multicenter randomized clinical trial evaluating a new artificial pancreas system which automatically monitors and regulates blood glucose levels has found that the new system was more effective than existing treatments at controlling blood glucose levels in people with type 1 diabetes.
October 24, 2019
Los Angeles County health officials say a visitor to Disneyland this month may have exposed others to measles.
October 24, 2019
Exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy to mixtures of suspected endocrine-disrupting chemicals found in consumer products is related to lower IQ in children by age 7, according to a study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Karlstad University, Sweden, published in Environment International in October.