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Move over: The world’s population is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050, a new United Nations report says.

Marin General was rated more than 100 percent worse than the national baseline in avoiding MRSA and at or up to 100 percent worse than the national baseline for avoiding C. diff.

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 boys suffered second- and third-degree sunburn on a field trip with their day care to the water park in the city of Vinita on Friday, mother Shaunna Oxford told NBC News.

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.

Their condition worsened over the weekend, and Oxford took them to Hillcrest Medical Center where they were recommended to fly to Shriners Hospital in Galveston, Texas.

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...

South African archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu, has been taken back to the hospital following a persistent infection barely a week after being discharged for the same ailment.

It is indicated that Odomzo (generic name sonidegib) is taken in the form of a daily pill, and a trial showed that the drug shrank or wiped out tumors in 58% of treated patients.The regulators note that the drug is intended for patients with locally advanced basal cell carcinomas...