Boar's Head announced Friday that it was recalling all of its liverwurst products because they could be tainted with dangerous Listeria monocytogenes bacteria.
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As wildfires throughout the West rage on, Oregon Health & Science University researchers have continued to investigate poor air quality's effects on health, and have discovered potential impacts ...
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Doctors and others who take care of hospitalized patients may want to sit down for this piece of news. A new study suggests that getting at a patient's eye level when talking with them about thei...
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UC San Francisco scientists have found that SARS-CoV-2 can linger in the body for years and could be driving a global epidemic in long COVID.
Whether in the grocery aisle, at the pharmacy, or at a dispensary, little gummy treats containing vitamins, supplements, or THC have become ubiquitous. But do the benefits of gummies (and closely...
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Could a short diet questionnaire encourage patients to make better food choices and improve heart health? In the past, your health care team had to rely on lengthy surveys to better understand wh...
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Last week, a drone delivery company called Wing (owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet) started operating in Melbourne. Some 250,000 residents in parts of the city's eastern suburbs can now ...
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A new study of more than 175,000 people in 25 countries revealed that individuals in low- and middle-income countries face greater challenges with daily activities and are less likely to use assi...
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Just being near blue spaces (the sea, rivers and lakes) can make us feel more relaxed because water triggers our parasympathetic nervous system, helping our body rest and digest. This calming eff...
We often hear about the importance of the human microbiome—the vast collection of bacteria and fungi that live on and inside us—when it comes to our health. But there's another, equally impor...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued an alert after a listeria outbreak in several states. There have been at least two fatalities, and dozens have become sickened.
You see them crowding checkout counters at grocery stores—a rainbow of bubble-gum pink, lime green and blueberry packets, slender and upright, like a multicolored chorus line of dancers temptin...
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An additional cinnamon product sold in the United States has been found to contain high levels of lead, health officials are warning.
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Seven lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic about ventilation's crucial role in preventing the spread of airborne pathogens have been set out by world-leading air quality scientist Professor...
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Distrust of health experts and credulity towards misinformation can kill. For example, during the COVID-19 crisis, high-profile health experts received death threats while misinformation went vir...
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High levels of the respiratory irritant ozone and grass pollen are likely during the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games if hot, sunny weather prevails, suggests an analysis of historic air quality...
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There's more than a 10-fold difference in the rates of unintentional gun deaths across US states, with such incidents claiming more than 12,000 lives between 2001 and 2021, finds research publish...
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Some 65 million Americans now own firearms for protection—around 80% of the country's estimated 81 million gun owners—suggest the results of a nationally representative survey carried out in ...
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Unplanned pregnancies among active service women may be curbing overall US military readiness for action and compromising its Women, Peace and Security objectives, suggests research published onl...
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Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst-based New England Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases (NEWVEC) have published new findings on Powassan virus, an emerging tick-born...
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More than 18% of physicians reported post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a review and meta-analysis published online July 24 in JAMA Network Open.
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Cramps, tingling and pain in the extremities can be symptoms of poor blood circulation. Left unchecked, bad circulation can turn into worse health outcomes. An expert with Baylor College of Medic...
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A case definition of market-driven epidemics (MDEs) could help address critical barriers to timely, effective prevention and mitigation, according to a study published this week in PLOS Global Pu...
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A safety program to lessen risks faced by emergency service personnel and others responding to incidents on high-speed roads has been trialed in Victoria, resulting in a recommendation for simila...
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Hundreds of millions of people around the world experience chronic pain —meaning pain that lasts longer than three months. While the numbers vary from country to country, most studies estimate ...
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"I believe I will still beat it again." These are the words of a Nigerian woman, Didi, who feared a recurrence of her cancer—but saw herself as a survivor.
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The English actor Kate Beckinsale recently lost her stepfather. She experienced such intense grief at the loss that it "burned a hole" in her esophagus, causing her to "vomit copious amounts of b...
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Elder abuse is an emerging public health and safety issue for communities of high-income countries.
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Every few weeks or months, the media reports on a new study that tantalizingly dangles the possibility of a new drug to give us longer, healthier lives.
Wildfires raging in several states and Canada are triggering air quality alerts and evacuation orders across the western parts of the United States.
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