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“The system is that we have statutory access to contingencies so that we ensure that we have the resources available to address whatever the situation is”.

“Reassuringly, we found that we could not replicate five earlier reported links with birth defects for sertraline, which is the most commonly used SSRI in our US study population”, said Jennita Reefhuis, a birth defects epidemiologist at the US Centers for Disease...

Increased screening for prostate cancer has led to more cancers being detected – but also to over-treatment of low-risk prostate cancers. But screening can cause a cascade of follow-up testing that can lead to pain, fever, bleeding, infection and urinary difficulties, while...

New prostate cancer diagnoses also declined by 23% to 29.3% among men over age 70 and 26% among men considered infirm.

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If a tick is attached to your skin for less than 24 hours, your chance of getting Lyme disease is small. One focus has been to figure out how the body’s immune system is triggered when confronted with the Lyme disease bacteria, says Mark Soloski, an immunologist who is...

Trump’s comments come amid news that Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus called him on Wednesday, asking him to “tone down” his rhetoric on immigration. “I think she would be a awful president”. “I would get them to pay for...

In a news release the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said the proposal follows a recommendation by the American Medical Association to pay doctors “to make advance care planning services” a reimbursement. On Wednesday, officials with the federal program...

And the Republican National Committee, the DNC’s counterpart, reportedly urged Trump on Wednesday to tone down his rhetoric. “But I think all of them who can be should be reunited with their families”.

The House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday that would substantially change the Bush-era “No Child Left Behind” law. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Sen.

Researchers point out that while their findings are reassuring evidence for some SSRIs, there is evidence that that a few birth defects occur more frequently among the infants of women treated with paroxetine or fluoxetine in early pregnancy.

The Minnesota Department of Health is investigating a case of suspected primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) in a critically ill child.

Sen. Bill Nelson will undergo prostate cancer surger on Monday, his office said. Scans showed that the cancer hadn’t spread outside of the prostate, the release said.

The USA Food and Drug Administration said it would extend the deadline for chain restaurants to disclose calorie counts on menus by a year to the end of 2016. Because restaurants and retailers said they didn’t have enough time to comply with the rule.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the report, which is based on yearly face-to-face surveys of about 67,000 Americans, on Tuesday.