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Mar 14, 2017

A new study has found that up to half of people who think they have a penicillin "allergy" can still receive the drug, and other antibiotics with similar structures, without any negative reactions to ...

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Mar 13, 2017

Phuket, the island in Thailand typically associated with paradise and most recently, illegally-run hotels, now has a different problem—a stray cat with the claws of death.Weera Pantip, a 63-year-old m ...

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Mar 13, 2017

A bacterium which triggers respiratory disease has been detected in the water systems of two Pennsylvania nursing facilities.On Friday, local officials confirmed that new restrictions were being imple ...

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Mar 13, 2017

In the past, infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) commonly led to dementia as the virus made its way to the brain. Even in effectively treated people, HIV can hide out and replicate in pl ...

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Mar 9, 2017

For regions that experienced a boom in mouse populations last year, scientists say 2017 could see a surge in cases of Lyme disease.Caused by bacteria transmitted through the bite of an infected tick, ...

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Mar 9, 2017

Have you ever had the stomach flu, aka the 24-hour flu? Well, chances are high that you never had influenza, but an intestinal infection called gastroenteritis.While sometimes severe cold symptoms can ...

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Mar 7, 2017

Even as health authorities describe the symptoms of Zika infection in the general population as mild, a new surveillance study finds serious side effects are more common, and serious, than previously ...

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Mar 4, 2017

Hospitals are places we go to get well, and we don't expect to get sick or sicker there. But a study from researchers at the Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and C ...

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Mar 4, 2017

Yes, bubonic plague—the Black Death that killed millions in the Middle Ages— is still out there. It even infects and kills people in the United States. Without treatment, half the people infected die, ...

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Mar 3, 2017

Norovirus outbreaks occur all year long, but peak in the winter months, which means we are in the middle of norovirus season. But there's still time to protect yourself from the highly infectious bug. ...