Taco Bell Pulls Lettuce From Five States as Cyclospora Outbreak Sickens Nearly 7,000

New Delhi, July 17 -- LANSING - The watery diarrhea started without warning. For Michigan residents who sought emergency care in recent weeks, the culprit turned out to be a microscopic parasite calle... Read More

FDA Approves Merck's Lipfendra, First Oral PCSK9 Drug to Match Injectables

New Delhi, July 17 -- a biweekly or monthly injection that most patients eventually abandon. Fear of needles accounts for some of that dropout. Cost and inconvenience account for more, and insurers ha... Read More

Ebola Death Toll in DR Congo Passes 700 as Outbreak Spreads to Two New Provinces

New Delhi, July 13 -- The Ebola outbreak that has killed 702 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reached Tshopo province Saturday - whose capital, Kisangani, is one of the country's largest... Read More

Thousands of Chemicals Hide Behind One Word on Your Laundry Products. The U.S. Still Lets Them.

New Delhi, July 12 -- WASHINGTON - The debate over whether dryer sheets and fabric softeners can cause cancer has gone viral again this summer, with oncologists across the country weighing in on chemi... Read More

UN Women: 1 Million Women Lost Aid as USAID Cuts Hit 52 Countries in 18 Months

New Delhi, July 12 -- NEW YORK - The safe houses operating in eastern Congo's conflict zones had been absorbing women for years before the funding stopped arriving. Organizations that had built waitin... Read More

Chickenpox Surge Reaches 18,000 Cases in Gaza as Malnourished Children Cannot Fight Back

New Delhi, July 11 -- KHAN YOUNIS - In the displacement camp that now occupies the courtyard of a former school on the outskirts of Khan Younis, a doctor from a UNRWA mobile clinic documented eleven n... Read More

The Cholesterol Test Most Americans Get May Not Be the Best Guide for Statin Therapy

CHICAGO - Every year, July 6 -- their LDL, or bad-cholesterol level. That figure shapes decisions about whether to start a statin, raise a dose, or add a second medication. A study published Monday in... Read More

Coffee Cuts Liver Cancer Risk by 47% and Cirrhosis by a Third, Largest Study Finds

New Delhi, July 6 -- LOS ANGELES - For the 250 million people who pour a cup of coffee each morning, the habit has long occupied the hazy territory between pleasure and nutrition, more ritual than med... Read More

FDA-Approved Autoimmune Drugs Can Kill Small Cell Cancers, UCLA CRISPR Study Finds

New Delhi, July 6 -- LOS ANGELES - For decades, the drugs designed to fight small cell neuroendocrine cancers of the lung, prostate, and ovary have worked for a while and then stopped working. The tum... Read More

FDA Clears a Transplant Therapy Built to Cut Chronic GVHD From 44% to 13%

The therapy, July 5 -- Roughly four in ten people who receive a donor stem cell transplant for blood cancer develop a complication that can be worse than the cancer itself: their new immune system tur... Read More

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