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Even Republican doctors oppose discrimination against people with preexisting medical conditions The House of Representatives has just passed a Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This bill allows states to opt out of provisions that would prevent insurance companies from charging higher prices to people with existing medical ...
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Here's what doctors and patient advocates think about the Republican healthcare bill The Obamacare replacement plan is headed for a vote in the House on Thursday afternoon. That's after some changes have been made to the American Health Care Act, the bill that aims to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
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Trumpcare Will Make the Opioid Crisis Worse There are plenty of reasons why the Obamacare repeal bill that House Republicans passed Thursday afternoon is so controversial. It slashes funding for Medicaid, threatens to raise health insurance premiums for older Americans, and allows states to roll ...
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Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $110M to woman in talc products case On Thursday, a Missouri jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $110 million to a Virginia woman, Lois Slemp, after she said her ovarian cancer developed after decades of using the company's talc-based products, Reuters reported.
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Does baby powder cause cancer? Another jury says yes. TRENTON, N.J. - Johnson & Johnson has been hit with a multimillion-dollar jury verdict for the fourth time over whether the talc in its iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied regularly for feminine hygiene.
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Does baby powder cause cancer? Another jury says yes A St. Louis jury awarded $110.5 million to Lois Slemp, 62, of Wise, Virginia, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. (LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS).
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Anti-vaccine activists spark a state's worst measles outbreak in decades The young mother started getting advice early on from friends in the close-knit Somali immigrant community here. Don't let your children get the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella - it causes autism, they said.
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Baby 'poses' for pic with mom's IUD moments after birth A photo of a newborn - holding his mother's IUD just moments after being plucked from her womb - has gone viral, with the woman dubbing him the "Mirena baby.
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The First ALS Drug In 22 Years Is Approved -- And It Costs 4 Times What It Does In Japan For the first time in 22 years, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a disorder in which patients lose the ability to move, and eventually, to breathe.
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Oh, Baby! How Can You Get Pregnant Using an IUD? A woman's photo of her newborn baby - just delivered, and with the intrauterine device (IUD) that failed to prevent her pregnancy clenched in his tiny fist - has gone viral.
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Tick bite puts Cape Cod man in coma with swollen brain "Even when you just go outside, you catch one crawling up you," said Tucker Lane, walking through his wooded backyard in West Barnstable.
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A Second Drug Is Approved to Treat ALS The drug, called Radicava or edaravone, slowed the progression of the degenerative disease in a six-month study in Japan. It must be given by intravenous infusion and will cost $145,524 a year, according to its manufacturer, MT Pharma America, ...
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Why swearing really is good for you Muscle strength and stamina can be boosted by turning the air blue, and researchers suggest cursing could help a cyclist summon up the extra pedal power to climb a hill, or a tennis player hit the ball a little harder.
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Toddlers' screen time linked to slower speech development, study finds A new study found children who spent more time with hand-held screens were more likely to exhibit a delay in expressive speech. Photo by triloks/via Getty Images.
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Tick and Mosquito Diseases to Watch This Season Mosquito and tick season is upon us once again, and with it a new roster of diseases to worry about. Zika may have faded from the headlines, but yellow fever (which is spread by the same mosquito as the Zika virus) and Powassan (which is spread by ...
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Swearing While You Exercise Could Make You Stronger: Study Swearing appears to make you stronger, scientists have discovered. In two experiments, researchers found that uttering profanities increased physical performance by up to eight percent, apparently by making them more tolerant of the pain.
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Tiny fish are helping researchers find the cure for childhood cancer RICHMOND, Virginia-- Tay Jones is like most 10-year-old girls. She likes coloring and drawing. The talented artist also dreams of becoming a YouTube star when she grows up.
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Kane County coroner warns about deadly 'gray death' heroin derivative "Gray death" is a combination of several opioids blamed for thousands of fatal overdoses nationally, including heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil and a synthetic opioid called U-47700.
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Swearing can make us more powerful, experts say Rarely do we hear about the benefits of ponying up to the swear jar. But researchers found a potty mouth can make us physically stronger.
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What Is Gray Death? The Killer Drug Cocktail Is Latest Battle in War Against Opioids It looks like a chunk of concrete, can kill with one dose, and it's got an ominous name - Gray Death. And it's the latest killer drug cocktail making headlines in the ongoing war against the national opioid crisis.
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Scientists eliminated HIV in animals using gene editing technology The HIV virus is adept at evading our best efforts to flush it from the human body, hence the lack of a cure, but a new study suggests that this feat may one day be possible.
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Colombian wife EATS $7000 holiday fund A jilted wife swallowed $7,000 in US dollars in a desperate bid to hide the cash from her husband after she discovered he had cheated on her.
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Aunt Jemima, Hungry Man waffles, pancakes, etc., recalled Having found Listeria monocytogenes in a production plant, Pinnacle Foods Inc. initiated a recall Friday of all best-by dates of a variety of flavors of Aunt Jemima and Hungry Man branded frozen pancakes, waffles and french toast.
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Michigan marijuana legalization advocates launching ballot initiative LANSING, Mich. - Marijuana proponents on Friday launched a 2018 ballot drive to make Michigan the ninth state to legalize the recreational use of the drug and the first in the Midwest to do so.
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Pot brownies could lose some punch under proposed California rules The ubiquitous billboards and product labels for Korova Edibles, an Oakland marijuana confections manufacturer, feature a three-eyed cow and a mooing boast: "Unrivaled potency.
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Eman Ahmed reaches UAE, gets written assurance of year-long treatment ABU DHABI: Eman Ahmed woke up to her first morning in the Emirates, stretched out on the island of her gigantic bed and blanketed in a thick layer of skin when a faint smile flickered across her face.
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Type 1 Cured in Mice Ralph DeFronzo and his researchers at UT Health at San Antonio announced that they have cured type 1 diabetes. Researchers think they have found a way to trick the body into curing type 1 diabetes that may also have a great impact possibly for type 2 ...
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Diabetes can't stop you from climbing Everest Oren Liebermann is CNN's Jerusalem correspondent and author of "The Insulin Express: One Backpack, Five Continents, and the Diabetes Diagnosis That Changed Everything.
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Georgia Republican risking felony charges to distribute medical marijuana to the sick Georgia Republican risking felony charges to distribute medical marijuana to the sick Georgia Republican Allen Peake is risking being charged with a felony by providing people who need medical marijuana in his state free of charge.
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A COLOMBIAN woman has swallowed $7000 to spite her cheating husband. And we don't mean she splashed out on an extravagant meal … Doctors in Colombia recently removed rolls of cash worth $US7000 from the stomach of a woman who swallowed the money after discovering her husband had cheated on her.
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National Nurses Week honors the caregivers Nurse Maryann Peterson, here outside her favorite neighborhood pharmacy, Austin Wellness in Forest Hills, works with young patients in the Intensive Care Unit at Cohen Children's Medical Center.
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Swearing May Be Your Best Option When Trying to Open That #$@&%*! Jar Hillary Clinton struggles with a pickle jar on Kimmel. New research suggests swearing may have helped. Here's a cool bodyhack to remember next time you're embroiled in battle against a jar lid that refuses to budge: use your go-to expletive.
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Mosquitoes surge after rain and heat in Northern California A spike in the number of mosquitoes in the Sacramento region over the past few weeks is raising worries about a more dangerous than usual return of West Nile virus.
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Large data set brings precision to breast cancer diagnosis and care Although the odds of developing breast cancer are nearly identical for black and white women, black women are 42 percent more likely to die from the disease.
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Does Low-Dose Aspirin Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer? Low-dose aspirin may help women reduce their risk of developing breast cancer, a new study published in Breast Cancer Research has suggested.
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