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The WMBF News notes that, People with a slow heart rate don’t have an increased risk for heart disease, a new study suggests.

Now, two pregnant women in the continental USA have tested positive for Zika virus, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health on Tuesday.

Atleast 21 was confirmed of having the disease among which four have died and nine have been discharged from the hospital after recovery. They said people in all age groups are affected but young children, the elderly and adults with chronic conditions are highly venerable to flu...

The State Board of Animal Health says they are hopeful that at least eight of the 10 farms have a less deadly form of the virus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued interim travel guidance on Friday for pregnant women and women of childbearing age who are planning to become pregnant, warning against travel to Brazil and 13 other countries in the Americas where the Zika virus has...

It was another bad start for the New Orleans Pelicans.

In an American Physiological Society news release, Klein advises that previous studies have, in fact, already shown that estrogens do possess antiviral properties against the likes of the hepatitis virus and HIV as well as Ebola.

Not all the 250,000 had yet been killed, said Derrer, though she didn’t have specific figures. The planned killing of the 156,000 chickens means the outbreak has now affected more than 401,000 birds. “This is a very poultry-intense area of the state, and our poultry...

Today, the Obama administration released its update to the official Dietary Guidelines, a report created by officials from the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services.

The Florida Department of Health on Tuesday confirmed that three people – two of whom are in Miami-Dade County -contracted the mosquito-borne Zika virus while visiting South America.

Amid high drama and widespread protests by several student organisations, Rahul flew down to the city by a special flight, visited the university campus in the upmarket Gachibowli area, and expressed solidarity with the agitating students.

The tests, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found a link between the mosquito-borne virus and a rising number of cases in Brazil of microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with undersized brains and skulls, said Lyle Petersen, director of...

Frigid temperatures are hampering efforts to euthanize turkeys at several southwestern IN farms where a strain of bird flu was found last week, freezing the hoses used to spread a foam that suffocates the affected flocks, a spokeswoman for a state agency said Monday. Deaths at...

Students were dismissed Tuesday from three schools in MA, including Arlington High School, Groton Middle School and the Florence Roche School.

The World Health Organization on Thursday declared Liberia to be free of Ebola, marking the first time in the two years all three West African countries hit by the tragic epidemic have seen no new cases in 42 days.