A new flu is spilling over from cows to people in the U.S. How worried should we be? Enlarge this image Chelsea Beck for NPR Chelsea Beck for NPR In 2011, a farmer in Oklahoma had a bunch of sick pi

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Health officials in New York have once again detected poliovirus in wastewater from Rockland County, where a case of paralytic polio occurred last summer. Wastewater samples from Rockland and several

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The nation's efforts to develop and stockpile key medicines for guarding against public health threats are underfunded by some $35 billion, the Biden administration warned Congress on Monday, forcing

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Monday signed a Medicaid expansion law that was a decade in the making and gives the Democrat a legacy-setting victory, although one significant

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People with social anxiety may benefit from mindfulness therapy combined with exposure to odours from others’ sweat, according to a study. The approach could be used in treatment for the mental healt

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Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. Series:

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The sound of traffic can elevate your risk of hypertension, a new study has found. A new peer-reviewed study, published in the journal JACC: Advances, analyzed over 240,000 participants and concluded

Meat bacteria are the likely cause of over half a million urinary tract infections (UTIs) in the US every year, a new study has found, with one of its authors warning that deaths from UTI-driven blood

Three people have died and eight others have lost their vision as a result of drug-resistant bacteria infections linked to recalled eye drops, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventi

Carl Icahn on Friday alleged that Illumina 's directors demanded extra personal liability insurance before the biotech company signed off on a $7.1 billion acquisition of cancer test developer Grail i

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US President-elect Joe Biden receives a Covid-19 vaccination from Tabe Masa, Nurse Practitioner and Head of Employee Health Services, at the Christiana Care campus in Newark, Delaware on December 21,

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Amanda Duffy traces a cast of the hand of her daughter, Reese, who was stillborn. Series: Stillbirths When Babies Die Before Taking Their First Breath ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investi

The Countries with the Highest Rates of Anxiety Written by Richard D. Coffman Hundreds of millions of people around the world suffer from some form of anxiety, amounting to nearly 4% of the world’s

In a new study published on Wednesday in the prestigious journal Nature, Israeli researchers identified possible new ways to treat the often lethal pancreatic caner. Follow Ynetnews on Facebook and T

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There are way too many stigmas around libido, especially in reference to age. The libido is a person’s sexual desire, and men are typically pinpointed for having a higher libido than women. We’ve hear

The death toll has now climbed to three in the outbreak of extensively drug-resistant bacteria that was linked to recalled eye drops, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday,

Food preferences aren't always something we're born with. A study published Wednesday in the journal Cell Metabolism suggests that eating fatty or sugary snacks alters our brain activity and creates l

ST. LOUIS — Explosive allegations made public last month about a St. Louis clinic that treats transgender children have flung parents into a vortex of emotions: shock, confusion, anger, fear. Kim Hut

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