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With the hope of putting to rest the question, posed in 1998, that the widely used childhood measles vaccine is linked to gastrointestinal (GI) illness that heralds the onset of autism, researchers at Columbia University …
On August 26, the US Census Bureau released the news that although the number of Americans living without healthcare insurance, and the level of medical care that insurance promises, has dropped by 1.3 million since …
After several incidents of contaminated produce sickening people across the nation, the Food and Drug Administration has decided to allow food producers to use irradiation to kill dangerous organisms such as E-coli and salmonella on …
The number of Americans of working age who have accumulated medical debt or are experiencing financial difficulties paying off their medical bills has climbed to a staggering 41% by 2007, up from only 34% in …
Thursday brought two announcements from Medicare officials, one bringing good news, the other not-so-good news. The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Medicare) has announced the names of 10 medical facilities or doctors …
Between 2004 and 2007, Dr. Mark M. Bouchet and his surgical transplant team removed the hearts from three tiny patients at Denver Children’s Hospital and transplanted them into three tiny patients dying of heart disease. …
The United States House of Representatives voted 326 to 102 on Wednesday to take the power of regulation out of the hands of the tobacco industry and place all tobacco products under the regulatory powers …
Almost a million travelers from around the world are expected to travel to Beijing next week for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Another couple of million Chinese citizens are expected to travel to the city …
In the continuing search for the source of the Salmonella saintpaul outbreak that has made hundreds of consumers in the United States and Canada sick over the last few months, investigators now say they’ve identified …
Granite countertops are increasingly popular in modern kitchens. They’re so popular, in fact, that more than 900 kinds of granite are known to be commercially available in the US residential construction market. Granite sold for …
