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It infects about 300,000 people a year, roughly 10 times more Americans than previously reported. “A nymph only has about twenty something percent of them carry the disease”, said Onondaga County Health Department Medical Director Dr. Quoc Nguyen. To start, we should...

Dr. Suniti Solomon who was part of the team that documented the first evidence of HIV infection in India in 1986 has died in Chennai on Tuesday morning, reports a leading English daily.

Indeed, back in 2011 Yun and Humar made an early version of living laser by introducing DNA into a cell that would make it luminesce, then placing the cell between two mirrors and blasting it with light pulses.

While Dr. Volkow’s endorsement in the Huffington Post is nothing short of glowing, Rosenberg, who made his comments on a conference call about a new prescription drug take-back program at the DEA, was much more qualified with his statements about the whole plant.

The three finalists for the hotly-sought Defense Department contract were the teams of Epic and IBM; Allscripts, Computer Sciences Corp, and Hewlett-Packard; and the winning group, Cerner, Leidos, and Accenture. It is estimated that the contract would be worth less than $9...

The Fierce 15 company’s device consists of two salt water-filled silicon balloons that reduce appetite by taking up space in the stomach “or by other mechanisms that are not yet fully understood”, according to the FDA. New patients easily and effortlessly...

PHILADELPHIA — An 8-year-old Baltimore boy who lost his limbs to a serious infection has become the youngest patient to receive a double-hand transplant, surgeons said Tuesday.

With this proposal, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force broadens its 2009 recommendation that adults be screened in doctors’ offices if staff-assisted depression care is available.

A comprehensive analysis of national hospital trends in the Medicare fee-for-service population can provide an assessment of past performance and targets for future interventions, according to background information in the article.

The immunization clinic is open to the public and immunizations will be administered at no cost. Making sure that children receive all their vaccinations on time is one of the most important things parents can do to ensure your children’s long-term health-as well as the...

The disease is caused by the bacteria Legionella and can not be spread from person to person. This colorized scanning electron micrograph with moderately-high magnification depicts a large grouping of Gram-negative Legionella pneumophila bacteria.

SCS is an increasingly common therapy that delivers electric pulses to the spinal cord, through a small device implanted under the skin, for hard to treat chronic pain in the trunk and limbs.

The FDA announced a partial ban on Monday after cilantro imported between 2013 and 2014 was linked to an outbreak of stomach illnesses in the United States, Huffington Post reports. Five of them have been directly linked to the parasite, and eight had “objectionable...

Fasting until noon triggers major blood sugar spikes and impairs the insulin responses of Type-2 diabetics throughout the rest of the day.

Gino explained that it was because both those giving and receiving sarcasm had to decode a contradiction (ie a psychological distance), that boosted creative thinking. From the Greek and Latin for “to tear flesh”, sarcasm has been called “hostility disguised as...