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Flu Season Is Picking Up Across the U.S.
Meanwhile, 19 states and New York City were reporting high levels of influenza-like illness activity, meaning a much higher-than-average proportion of doctor's visits could be attributed to the flu. Tam said. During mild seasons, around 12,000 people die of the flu. Still, this flu season is not expected to be as deadly as a year ago when nearly 80,000 people died. [Full Article...]
Families furious after woman in vegetative state gives birth at nursing facility
The facility, which has room for over 50 patients, is now under investigation by police and the Arizona Department of Health Services. The Phoenix Police Department did not return PEOPLE's calls for comment. Since the allegations surfaced, the state agency has "required heightened safety measures be implemented at the facility including increased staff presence during patient interactions, inc... [Full Article...]
NHS 10-year plan launched in bid to save 500000 lives
It's worth taking a moment to reflect on when the NHS was first proposed from this dispatch box by Churchill's Government in 1944. But the core principle that good health care should be available to all, free at the point of use, remains. [Full Article...]
Flu Shot May Be More Effective Than Nasal Vaccine, Study Says
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's weekly report , in the last seven days of the previous year, only 4 percent of the visits to the doctor were linked to flu-like symptoms. Also, another pocket of virulence is emerging on the East Coast, in New Jersey and New York City. The flu strain predominantly affecting the country is known as H1N1, and is often referred to as "... [Full Article...]
More adults think they have a food allergy, says new study
About one in 10 adults in the USA have a food allergy, according to a new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open - but almost double that amount think they suffer with one despite the fact their symptoms are not consistent with a true allergy. [Full Article...]
Theresa May launches National Health Service plan
More than three million people will benefit from improved stroke, respiratory and cardiac services over the next decade, it is claimed. "If the NHS is to better meet the needs of patients and the public in these important areas of mental illness, cancer and long-term conditions, it must recognise the value of the highly skilled and qualified nursing workforce and the harsh realities on the NHS f... [Full Article...]
Millionaire finds out he’s not father of his 3 children
Expressing his feelings for the two sons, he said that although they are not my biological sons, I still feel that I am their father. Despite Kate's insistence on giving all three boys Jewish middle names - even though neither of them followed the faith - and refusal to have them christened, he had no idea he was living a lie. [Full Article...]
Percent of Adults Think They Have a Food Allergy - But Don't
Ruchi Gupta , a pediatrician and professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in IL, said in a statement . "I don't know if it's stabilized, but it has been trending upwards". Sorensen agrees. "I think the awareness with kids and food allergies should encourage people to go get tested and figure out if they're not feeling well what it really is, if it's food ... [Full Article...]