 | ||||||||
| health | ||||||||
| NEWS | ||||||||
Chipotle subpoenaed in federal inquiry into norovirus outbreak Chipotle Mexican Grill said Wednesday that it had been served a federal grand jury subpoena as part of a criminal investigation seeking information about a norovirus outbreak at a California restaurant.
| ||||||||
Feds probing norovirus outbreak at Chipotle This Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015, photo, shows a Chipotle restaurant at Union Station in Washington. Chipotle said Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, it has been served with a federal grand jury subpoena as part of a criminal investigation tied to a norovirus outbreak ...
| ||||||||
Blood plasma from Ebola survivors fails to prevent deaths in field study Image:Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare to carry an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia August 17, 2014.
| ||||||||
Blood plasma from Ebola survivors fails to prevent deaths in field study Reuters Health - Treating Ebola victims with blood plasma donated by Ebola survivors failed to significantly increase the odds of recovering from the deadly virus, according to a field test of the experimental treatment.
| ||||||||
Birth Control Pill Not Linked To Birth Defects: Study Using oral contraceptives right before or during pregnancy is not associated with a higher risk of birth defects, a new study reports.
| ||||||||
Glowing tumors could make cancer surgery more successful A chemical that causes tumors to glow would allow more precise removal of cancerous tissue. By Stephen Feller | Jan. 6, 2016 at 5:04 PM.
| ||||||||
This is a terrible sign for Chipotle Last month, in the wake of an E. coli outbreak linked to Chipotle restaurants around the country, the popular fast food chain warned that its business would suffer.
| ||||||||
No Link Between 'the Pill' and Birth Defects Study WEDNESDAY, Jan. 6, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Becoming pregnant while taking birth control pills doesn't seem to increase the risk of birth defects, a new study suggests.
| ||||||||
Federal Authorities Investigate Chipotle Outbreak Federal authorities are conducting a criminal probe tied to an outbreak of foodborne disease at one of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. CMG -1.67 % 's restaurants last year, the company said, raising the stakes in a series of such outbreaks that have ...
| ||||||||
US Women 3 Times More Likely To Say They're Bisexual: Survey Among women, 5.5 percent said they are bisexual, compared to two percent of men. (Representational Image). Washington: Women are about three times as likely as men to say they are bisexual, and increasing numbers of US women say they have had ...
| ||||||||
Side Effects Seen With One Method of Weight-Loss Surgery: Study WEDNESDAY, Jan. 6, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- While most people who undergo a type of weight-loss surgery say their well-being has improved, high rates of side effects and hospitalization are also reported, a new study finds.
| ||||||||
New York Medical Marijuana Program Begins -- And No One Is Excited New York's medical marijuana program finally begins Thursday, a year and a half after it was approved, but it won't be the landmark achievement its advocates dreamed of.
| ||||||||
Feds Funding Effort To Tie Medical Services To Social Needs The federal government has announced a $157 million project to help hospitals and doctors link Medicare and Medicaid patients with needed social services that sometimes have a bigger effect on their health than medical interventions.
| ||||||||
Trying to right itself, Chipotle hit by criminal investigation NEW YORK - Chipotle reported a sales plunge of 30 percent for December after a series of food scares at its restaurants and disclosed that a federal criminal investigation tied to the sickening of customers has begun.
| ||||||||
Antibiotics promote C. diff infection by killing gut bacteria The bacteria killed by antibiotic treatments are responsible for bile acids that prevent other infections. By Stephen Feller | Jan. 6, 2016 at 4:04 PM.
| ||||||||
High-sugar diet linked to higher cancer rates A new study finds a link between the high amount of sugar in the average U.S. diet and an increased risk for a type of breast cancer that spreads to the lungs.
| ||||||||
Does cancer screening saves lives? Unclear, researchers say Reuters Health - Bigger studies are needed to tell whether cancer screening really saves lives, according to a new analysis. While cancer screening may be linked to fewer deaths from tumors, finding cancers doesn't necessarily save lives when ...
| ||||||||
Texas Researchers Link Sugar Consumption To Breast Cancer Tumors A new study has found that dietary sugar, particularly the fructose that's found in high-fructose corn syrup, significantly increases the risk of breast cancer tumors - and the risk of spreading those cancers to other organs.
| ||||||||
A Class&Action Suit Claims Fitbit Devices Inaccurately Measure Heart Rate Fitbit's wristbands don't give accurate heart rate readings during intense exercise, dissatisfied customers allege. By Steven Melendez.
| ||||||||
Class action lawsuit claims Fitbit's heart rate monitoring isn't accurate enough A new class action lawsuit is accusing Fitbit of misleading shoppers about the heart rate sensors in two of its flagship fitness trackers, the Charge HR and the Surge.
| ||||||||
Twins Show Some Families Carry Shared Cancer ... We will provide you with a dropdown of all your saved articles when you are registered and signed in. {shareThisContent}. {fontSizerContent}.
| ||||||||
New York launches into medical pot, with no buds in sight NEW YORK - In a sleek Manhattan storefront with an upscale-doctor's-office ambience, New York's measured foray into medical marijuana begins Thursday with a liquid packaged with a plain white label.
| ||||||||
SeaWorld, California authorities reach settlement in safety cases SAN DIEGO Jan 6 SeaWorld and California regulators said on Wednesday they have reached a settlement over allegations that the marine park did not properly train its employees to interact with its famed killer whales.
| ||||||||
Single moms are the most sleep-deprived people in America, report says Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that 44% of single moms aren't getting enough sleep at night.
| ||||||||
Pace of Illinois medical marijuana approvals increases CHICAGO - The pace of Illinois patients getting state approval to use medical marijuana has increased. The Illinois Department of Public Health announced Wednesday that it has approved 4,000 patients to use medical marijuana in the state's pilot program.
| ||||||||
IBM's Watson Now Powers AI For Under Armour, Softbank's Pepper Robot And More From its debut to the world as a Jeopardy champion in 2011, IBM's Watson has made a name for itself as a powerful artificial intelligence platform for large enterprise applications, from medical research through to finance.
| ||||||||
IBM cuts new Watson deals that push it deeper into health When you think of IBM you probably don't think of consumer electronics, but the company's CEO came to Las Vegas on Wednesday to push IBM's Watson technology deeper into wearables and health.
| ||||||||
Quit lines in Georgia, South Carolina offer help to end smoking With many in the new year hoping to quit smoking, South Carolina Quit Line is expanding what it can offer to those who need help. Officials in both South Carolina and Georgia say this time of year is very busy for their quit lines as people try to ...
| ||||||||
Postmenopausal Women With Periodontal Disease Have an Increased Risk of ... Postmenopausal women with periodontal disease are more likely to develop breast cancer than women who do not have the chronic inflammatory disease.
| ||||||||
Hawaii becomes first state to raise legal smoking age to 21 In this Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015, photo, retailer Holy Smokes has signs posted around its entryway to alert customers to the state's new smoking laws in Honolulu.
| ||||||||
John Kasich broke with the GOP on Obamacare. And he'd do it again. Ohio Gov. John Kasich knew there might be consequences, but he broke with the GOP on a key part of Obamacare anyway. Story by Dan Zak.
| ||||||||
IBM's Rometty Betting Big On Watson's Ability To Power 'Cognitive Era' IBM's Watson supercomputer is poised to power the "cognitive era," which will have a transformative impact on digital-savvy businesses that can make sense of big data, CEO Ginni Rommety said Wednesday during a keynote address at CES 2016.
| ||||||||
New Year's Resolutions Won't Make You More Successful Especially in business. MPW Insider is an online community where the biggest names in business and beyond answer timely career and leadership questions.
| ||||||||
Resolutions, Resolutions, Resolutions!!!! It's that time of the year once again when we can't help but consciously or unconsciously make New Year's resolutions.
| ||||||||
More children seeing e-cigarette ads A meteoric rise in the use of electronic cigarettes by adolescents in the last few years tracks with a dramatic increase in the advertising for those devices, which most kids see, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
| ||||||||
Almost Half Of Single Moms Struggle With This Health Problem Most health studies about single-parent families focus on the well-being of children, but experts are increasingly turning their focus to how the adults in the equation fare.
| ||||||||
E-cigarette ads reach 70 percent of middle and high schoolers FILE - In this April 23, 2014 file photo, a man smokes an electronic cigarette in Chicago. On Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, the U.S.'s lead public health agency focused its attack on electronic cigarettes on the issue of advertising, saying too many kids see ...
| ||||||||
Feds take on e-cig advertising NEW YORK - The nation's lead public health agency on Tuesday focused its attack on electronic cigarettes on the issue of advertising, saying too many kids see the ads.
| ||||||||
Coyote with jar stuck on head spotted in New Hampshire PEMBROKE, N.H. -- Multiple residents in a New Hampshire town have spotted a coyote walking around with a jar stuck on its head, reports CBS Boston.
| ||||||||
Increase in Cervical Cancer Diagnoses Highlight Importance of Screening "Women think, even as they get older, they think, they're not sexually active, they're done having children, there's no reason for them to worry about it.
| ||||||||
Fitbit users sue, claiming heart rate monitors miss the beat Fitbit says its wearable heart monitors help "make every beat count." A group Fitbit users say the devices don't even count every beat.
| ||||||||
Study: Many doctors don't urge HPV shots for preteens Gardasil dose **FILE** One dose of the vaccine Gardasil, developed by Merck & Co., is displayed in this Friday, Feb. 2, 2007 file photo, in Austin, Texas.
| ||||||||
Your relationships are just as important to your health as diet and exercise Want to be healthy? Hit the gym. Eat nutritious foods. And ... hang out with people. The depth and breadth of your social connections will impact your health just as much as diet and exercise, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of ...
| ||||||||
Poor Sleep May Actually Set The Stage For Alzheimer's Numerous studies have tied sleep to Alzheimer's disease, but the link hasn't yet been well-defined. Now a new study led by Oregon Health and Science University hopes to clearly determine the relationship between a lack of shuteye and the memory-robbing ...
| ||||||||
New regulation tweaks HIPAA for gun control purposes With help from Darius Tahir (@DariusTahir). HIPAA LIMITED FOR GUN BACKGROUND CHECKS: The Obama administration's executive actions aimed at gun control Monday included an amendment of HIPAA to make it easier to report the names of those ...
| ||||||||
Aspirin doesn't improve breast cancer outcomes but may decrease density The anti-inflammatory, anti-platelet salicylate medication known to chemists as acetylsalicylic acid—yes, that's aspirin—doesn't fight breast cancer but may make dense breast tissue less dense, aiding early detection in women with that characteristic.
| ||||||||
Governor's Budget, to be released Thursday, critical to health care access in ... SACRAMENTO, CA - On Thursday, California Governor Jerry Brown will release his proposed budget for the 2016-17 state budget, which has major implications for California's health care system.
| ||||||||
Merced bans medical marijuana cultivation, sales – at least for now The Merced City Council's chambers Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, were full as about two dozen speakers, some with prepared presentations, shared how medical cannabis has aided them or their loved ones.
| ||||||||
| You have received this email because you have subscribed to Google Alerts. |
 Receive this alert as RSS feed |
| Send Feedback |
No comments:
Post a Comment