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US health workers exposed to virus without protective gear: reports
Feb 28, 2020 (AFP)
The filing, which was seen by the Washington Post and New York Times, was submitted by a senior official in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wh...
Switzerland delays high-level health meet over coronavirus
Feb 20, 2020 (AFP)
The decision was made "because numerous participants must remain in their own countries to deal with the COVID-19 epidemic," Switzerland said in a statement Wed...
Hospital director at virus epicentre dies; As China waives US medical import tariffs
Feb 18, 2020 (AFP)
The COVID-19 virus, which is believed to have originated in Wuhan late last year, has infected more than 72,000 people and killed nearly 1,900. Liu Zhiming, the...
Early cholesterol treatment lowers heart disease risk: study
Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)
Described as the "most comprehensive" review of its kind covering almost 400,000 patients over more than 40 years, the study in The Lancet said its findings on ...
China accused of 'falsifying' organ donation data
Nov 14, 2019 (AFP)
In a study published in the peer-reviewed journal BMC Medical Ethics, three academics examined China's official national and provincial transplant data and dete...
America's endless battle against lethal drug fentanyl
Oct 18, 2019 (AFP)
It's a laborious job, with more than one million items of mail, the vast majority of it innocuous, arriving at the postal sorting center from around the world e...
Google bans ads for 'unproven' therapies, including stem cells
Sep 06, 2019 (AFP)
"This new policy will prohibit ads selling treatments that have no established biomedical or scientific basis," Google policy adviser Adrienne Biddings said in ...
VA, Defense Department announce milestone in electronic health records storage
Jul 31, 2019 (UPI)
The health records of 23.5 million veterans have been sent to contractor Cerner Corp. The 10-year, $16 billion electronic healthcare record (EHR) innovation is ...
Brain disease kills more than 100 Indian children
Jun 17, 2019 (AFP)
The northern state, one of India's poorest and home to almost 100 million people, is also in the throes of a major heat wave that is the country's second-longes...
Scientists deploy directed evolution to create new antibiotics
May 10, 2019 (UPI)
Using a method known as directed evolution, researchers successfully synthesized beta-lactams, a molecular structure used to create antibiotics. Most antibiotic...
Navy adapts maintenance procedures, strategies for containing COVID-19
May 08, 2019 (UPI)
The Navy has been particularly hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, with an outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt causing a political firestorm that led t...
Army solicits bids for wearable technology to detect COVID-19
May 08, 2019 (UPI)
"There is a dire and urgent need for development of rapid, accurate wearable diagnostics to identify and isolate pre-symptomatic COVID-19 cases and track/preven...
Scientists identify 'jumping' superbug gene resistant to last-resort antibiotic
May 07, 2019 (UPI)
When more common antibiotics fail to stamp-out a dangerous infection, doctors have only a few options. The antibiotic colistin is one of them. Unfortunately, re...
Medicare costs are lower in places with more trees and shrubs
Apr 01, 2019 (UPI)
The correlation persisted even after researchers accounted for socioeconomic factors that influence health care costs. Researchers found healthcare costs in the...
Department of Managed Health of California Fines Healthnet Multiple Times For Appeal
Mar 08, 2019 (SPX)
Back then the State of California told Bartz's students to not work too much or you will lose your benefits. This is for a student placed to work at IBM. This i...
Google 'must scrap censored Chinese search plans': NGOs
Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)
A global coalition of 60 human rights and media groups wrote to Google chief executive Sundar Pichai urging him to scrap the "Dragonfly" project, which has alre...
China mulls $720,000 fine for faking vaccine tests after scandal
Nov 12, 2018 (AFP)
The law would regulate areas including production, distribution and use of vaccines, according to a draft posted Sunday on the website of China's market regulat...
Use of monkeys for medical research hits all-time high
Nov 05, 2018 (UPI)
Last year, scientists used close to 76,000 primates for research, up by 22 percent from 2015 and 6 percent in 2008, according to a USDA report. Experts think pr...
New generation of Latin American tech 'unicorns' making mark
Oct 31, 2018 (AFP)
Rappi's orange clad bicycle couriers have sprung up in 27 Latin American cities offering services as varied as delivering cash and pizzas to walking dogs or loo...
China fines pharma firm $1.3 billion in vaccine scandal
Oct 16, 2018 (AFP)
The massive fine and asset seizure is the latest move by authorities to punish Changchun Changsheng Biotechnology company, based in northeast Jilin province, ov...
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