Three school buildings in Elgin, IL, a suburb of Chicago, have been closed because air quality testing of water cooling towers found elevated levels of legionella bacteria. Students were sent home until after the cooling towers are cleaned and disinfected, a s…
A new study has found that drinking coffee apparently does not raise the risk of atrial fibrillation, which is one form of an irregular heartbeat. However, this finding is tentative and does not mean drinking coffee is not associated with other types of irregu…
Childhood exposure to insecticides used in the home appears to be associated with an increased risk for certain types childhood cancers. This finding comes from an analysis of data from 16 studies of pesticides in the home.
The percentage of adults who are obese has held steady in all but five states.Arkansas had the highest adult obesity rate at 35.9%, while Colorado had the lowest at 21.3%.
After a lot of anger and pushback, Turing Pharmaceuticals is going to lower the price of Daraprim, which it had raised to $750 per pill. It had been $13.50 per pill, but it is not known what the new price will be.
A new study of almost six million people discovered that second hand smoke or passive smoking is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes compared to those who never smoked or inhaled cigarette fumes.
According to the Institute of Medicine, most Americans will receive at least one wrong or delayed diagnosis at some point in their lives. Wrong or late diagnoses can have devastating consequences, and the institute calls for urgent changes in the American heal…
Another blow is coming to the pharmaceutical industry that has been hit almost daily with bad publicity over astronomical drug prices. A study says that drug companies are charging up to 600 times what certain cancer drugs cost to make..
