A Minnesota woman has filed a lawsuit against Andrew & Williamson Fresh Produce, distributor of garden cucumbers believed to have caused the salmonella outbreak that has already killed one and affected at least 300 people in more than 25 states.
Girls with autism display less repetitive and restricted behavior than boys with autism do, according to a study. Differences in the brain between boys and girls with autism may help explain these differences.
A study in mice indicates that giving aspirin to cancer patients may strongly boost the effectiveness of the new anticancer drugs that help the immune system fight tumors.
The NHS England has stopped the funding of sixteen cancer drugs intended for more than twenty cancer treatments, citing the benefits do not justify the cost of the drugs.
Weight-loss surgery is better than medication at controlling type 2 diabetes in obese people. Half of 60 people treated with either a Roux-en-Y or biliopancreatic diversion were free of diabetes 5 years after their surgery.
Lack of teamwork, poor communication, and overreliance on the Electronic Health Record (EHR) were just some of the issues faced by the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital at the height of the Ebola crisis, where one patient died and two nurses were diagnosed of…
For the second time, Liberia has been declared to be free of the Ebola virus. The West African country is now in a period of heightened surveillance intended to prevent the disease from re-emerging,
In a press release on Thursday, September 3, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announces a recall of “slicer cucumbers” that came from Mexico and may have been contaminated with Salmonella Poona following more than 280 reported cases across 27 states.