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Police increasingly attending mental health calls

Police are using up an average of three hours per mental health incident - for example, ferrying people to hospital or waiting in accident and emergency for the...

US FDA plans overhaul of decades-old medical device system

We take seriously all reports of patient impact, and though the medical community can never completely eliminate risk, we always strive to improve our technolog...

CDC confirms 116 cases of mysterious polio-like illness

That's 10 more confirmed cases than the agency reported a week ago. AFM is an extremely rare but serious neurological condition that causes the body's muscles...

First Genome-Edited Babies? - Hit & Run

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland. A global outcry started after the genetic scientist He Jiankui claimed in a...

US officials say tainted romaine lettuce appears to be from California

Romaine harvesting recently began shifting from California's Central Coast to winter growing areas, primarily Arizona, Florida, Mexico and California's Imperial...

Scientist who claimed to create gene-edited CRISPR babies under investigation

He is on the faculty of Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen China, but in a statement released in response to He's videos , the univers...

EPL match delayed because of medical emergency

Wolstenholme, from Blackburn, retired as a referee in 2003 and was conscious when taken away. Both Newcastle, fresh from wins over Watford and Bournemouth, ca...

Chinese Scientist Reveals He Helped Create First Genetically Edited Babies

He Jiankui of Southern University of Science and Technology says he used a powerful gene editing tool to alter the DNA of twin girls who were just born this m...

21% of HIV+ Indians Are Unaware Of their Status: UNAIDS Report

In 2017, 9.4 million people were simply unaware that they are living with a potentially deadly, but treatable, disease. The new report from UNAIDS showed th...

One in eight children in England have mental health disorder

In May, the NSPCC released a report that found the equivalent of 183 children per school day were referred for mental health treatment past year, but almost a...

Citing E. coli outbreak, United States officials say don't eat romaine

United States health officials warned consumers on Tuesday (Nov 20) not to eat any romaine lettuce and to throw away any they might have in their homes, citin...

Student dies from adenovirus; Family blames UMd

The 18-year-old's father, Ian Paregol, identified his daughter to news outlets and questioned if a mold outbreak in her dorm could have exacerbated her illness....

Roche-AbbVie cancer drug gets accelerated FDA approval

Separately, approval for the same indication - newly diagnosed AML in patients with comorbidities precluding intensive chemotherapy or those 75 and older - was ...

Insulin Paucity Could Impact 40 Million People With Type 2 Diabetes

The number of people with type 2 diabetes who receive insulin is expected to increase by more than 20% by 2030, a report suggests. "These estimates suggest ...

Walgreens, Humana looking to take equity stakes in each other

Trading volume, or volume, is the number of shares or contracts that point towards the overall activity of a security or market for a given period. However the ...

Dust chokes Sydney as asthma sufferers struggle to cope

The haze is reminiscent of a massive dust storm measuring 500 kilometers wide and 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) in length that struck New South Wales and Queensl...

Experimental Peanut Allergy Drug Shows Promise, But With Side Effects

Peanut allergies are one of most common food allergies. "We were pleased to find that two-thirds of the people in the study were able to tolerate the equiv...

Parents say no to flu shots for children

According to the survey , four out of 10 participants said that "they base their decisions about the flu vaccine on what they read and hear" and the info they'...

98 million Indians may contract diabetes by 2030: Lancet study

The findings are of particular concern for the African, Asian, and Oceania regions which the study predicts will have the largest unmet insulin need in 2030 if ...

Boston Scientific offers to buy UK's BTG for about $4.24 billion

Boston Scientific said BTG's interventional portfolio - using devices to deliver drugs to affected organs - would augment its capabilities in important areas of...