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Health officials suspect an outbreak of swine flu has caused an Arizona school to shut down after more than a third of the students called in sick.
Mental health professionals have long known that certain mental illnesses can run within families — and that history weighs heavily on some people who are struggling to decide whether to have children and risk passing it on.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has canceled a $75 million, five-year research contract with a Texas medical center studying illnesses suffered by veterans of the first Gulf War.
The Air Force Academy says 84 cadets with flu-like symptoms have been isolated are being tested for swine flu.
Sen. Robert Byrd's office said Monday that the ailing lawmaker "continues to improve" after more than a month in the hospital but is unlikely to return to work this week.
Sen. Robert Byrd's office says the ailing lawmaker does not plan to return to work this week, but that he's expected to be released from the hospital in the near future.
Hospitalized in mid-May with a high temperature, Sen. Robert C. Byrd is not expected back at work this week, his office said Monday, adding he is still recovering from a staph infection.
The 21 ponies that were to have competed in a Sunday polo match but suddenly died were exposed to some sort of poison, said one of the veterinarians who attempted to save the animals.
Dave Brubeck's son says the jazz pianist and composer is looking forward to returning to the road for some shows after being hospitalized for a viral infection.
Ailing "Law & Order: SVU" star Mariska Hargitay should be back on the case soon.
Researchers say 24 pork processing plant workers in Minnesota and Indiana who developed a mysterious neurological disorder have improved but still have some symptoms.
NCAA president Myles Brand disclosed Saturday he has pancreatic cancer with a long-term prognosis that is "not good," shocking a convention center full of delegates who had spent the week working on more of his reform-minded ideas.
Hundreds of passengers on a Swiss-owned cruise ship were stricken with severe vomiting and diarrhea caused by a mysterious ailment, Brazilian health officials said Thursday.
The New Mexico Health Department says a baby has died and another has been hospitalized due to a rare infection.
Ground combat in the 1991 Persian Gulf War lasted just 100 hours, but it's meant 17 years of pain and anguish for hundreds of thousands of veterans.
Even as possibly hundreds of thousands of veterans suffer from a collection of symptoms commonly called Gulf War illness, the government has done too little to find treatments for their health problems nearly two decades after the war ended, a panel commissioned by Congress said.
Authorities quarantined a train in Ontario Friday after a woman died and several others reported being ill. But a doctor later ruled out a serious infectious disease and said the train would likely soon resume its journey.
The number of mysterious neurological illnesses among workers who processed pig brains at pork plants in three states has grown to as many as 24, and other possible cases are being evaluated, researchers said Wednesday.
Mental illness and the media are as inextricably linked as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. My first realization of this came when I announced way back that I was going to journalism school with the intent of becoming a reporter. Since my parents couldn’t afford to fly me to Vienna at the time, and research was still sketchy regarding the benefits of shock therapy, they were somewhat helpless and had no alternative but to go along and accept my loony career choice.
A highly contagious virus sickened more than 100 passengers on a Holland America cruise ship that returned to San Diego Monday from a 10-day trip to Mexico.
Investigators are preparing to test pig brains as they struggle to tell what is causing a mysterious nerve illness affecting pork plant workers in Minnesota and Indiana, but so far have found no signs of wider infection, federal health officials said Friday.
Federal health officials are investigating if there's a link between illnesses reported by several workers at a pig slaughterhouse in Indiana and those seen recently in workers at a Minnesota pork plant. All the employees work in areas where pigs' heads have been processed using a technique in which compressed air is shot into their skulls until their brains spill out, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokeswoman Lola Russell said.
Federal health officials are investigating if there's a link between illnesses reported by several workers at a pig slaughterhouse in Indiana and those seen recently in workers at a Minnesota pork plant.
Roger Federer has a severe stomach virus and has pulled out of an exhibition tournament less than a week away from the Australian Open.
Flu-proof your family this winterBut even as the flu season unfolds, there's much you can do to substantially lower your own risk of getting sick.
Along with my BP meds every day I take 225mg of Effexor every morning, as well as 10mg of Buspar twice a day. To people who know what those medications are for they might think that it means I have a mental illness....and they'd be right. I'm clinically depressed.
The reports out on the dummy box, which sometimes sounds like the town crier on steroids after a night of heavy drinking, are saying that the bill is 2000 pages long.
Are Your Food Allergies Making You Fat?Your digestive system may be making you fat. It's hard to believe - but very true!
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Flu forces Elton John to cancel concerts The flu may be on everyone's minds, but it happens to be in Elton John's system -- prompting the British musician, who is said to be in a London hospital for treatment of E.
inessential.com: VaccinesI'm still living with the effects of the chicken pox I had in third grade.
Do hand sanitizers really work? Everyone is always looking for ways to keep their families healthy. The CDC says washing your hands is the best way to protect yourself against getting sick.
Kids encouraged to use imagination to fight illness New research shows that children can be taught to use their imagination to tackle frequent bouts of stomach pain.
To fight flu, arm your immune system with diet, restBALTIMORE, Maryland (CNN) -- A few weeks ago, 22-year-old Tatiana Gulenkina felt bad. Tired with a headache and high fever, Gulenkina knew she was coming down with something. Yet she wasn't sure with what.
Leafy Greens Top Risky Food List - MSN Health & Fitness - NutritionThis article seems to have info "blanks" in it, ie., Leafy Greens incidents tend to be the Bagged kind in every story I've seen so far. So I might ask what other products are made and washing of equipment occur at the point of manufacture (bagging).
IBM Creating Personal DNA Reader for under $1000Scientists at IBM are using a combination of nanotechnology and microchips to map out personal genetic code that could make significantly improve the process of diagnosing and treating diseases. More Articles
Second Grader Dies From Swine Flu A second-grader from Dalton has died from swine flu. Jennifer Moorer, spokeswoman for the North Georgia Health District, said the 7-year-old girl died Wednesday after a brief hospitalization. Moorer
The Way We Die Now PORTLAND, Ore. —– In the last days of her life, Annabel Kitzhaber had a decision to make: she could be the tissue-skinned woman in the hospital with the tubes and the needles, the meds and smells and the squawk of television.
Lawsuits Over Denture Cream With ZincWhen he began getting weak, 61-year-old Ronald Beaver figured he might just be feeling his age. Eventually his problem was traced to a serious blood disorder caused by low levels of copper.
Patrick Swayze Through The Years (Slideshow)A photo retrospective of Patrick Swayze, who died after a two-year battle against pancreatic cancer
Football Team Faces Possible H1N1 OutbreakSANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- A Santa Cruz high school is dealing with a possible outbreak of the H1N1 virus after several athletes on the school's football team became sick with flu recently.
Candia Child First Confirmed Case Of EEECANDIA, N.H. -- State health officials confirmed Sunday the first human case of EEE in New Hampshire this year. The girl is Rosemary Shifflett, 3, from Candia. Her father, Erik, said she is recovering from the virus at Boston Children's Hospital.
Big Food vs. Big Insurance - Michael PollanTo put it more bluntly, the government is putting itself in the uncomfortable position of subsidizing both the costs of treating Type 2 diabetes and the consumption of high-fructose corn syrup.
Daughter claims father wrongly placed on controversial NHS end of life schemeRosemary Munkenbeck says her father Eric Troake, who entered hospital after suffering a stroke, had fluid and drugs withdrawn and she claims doctors wanted to put him on morphine until he passed away under a scheme for dying patients called the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP).
Planning ChecklistsEvery American citizen should read any and all information related to the swine flu pandemic and the swine flu as well as what the government plans are for the American people and the swine flu.
Gardasil & Swine Flu, Inconvenient TruthGardasil & Swine Flu, Inconvenient Truth, Barbara Loe Fisher, National Vaccine Information Center, NVIC 08-24-09
How Twitterers came to the defence of the NHS After reports yesterday of the attacks made by US Republicans on the NHS, Twitter users grabbed their keyboards and mobiles to defend the health system.
There has been a lot of debate on the vine, the news, and they have even tried to have some town hall meetings about healthcare. I have been on several different seeds, links and the like, commenting and reading.
New HIV strain, linked to wild gorillas, discovered in woman from CameroonA new strain of HIV - one that standard AIDS tests may not detect - has been discovered in France. The new type of human immunodeficiency virus appears to have originated in a gorilla disease first isolated in 2006.
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