Medical
CVS Q1 crushes Street; to expand new store format
Meanwhile, net income attributable to shareholders went up to $1.42 billion ($1.09 per share) during the first quarter from $998 million ($0.98 per share) in the year-ago period. The business's quarterly revenue was up 34.8% on a year-over-year basis. For the current quarter CVS Corp (NYSE:CVS) has high EPS estimates of $1.63 in contradiction of low EPS estimates of $1.43. [Full Article...]
ALZHEIMER'S THREAT: Scientists believe to have discovered new form of dementia
Unfortunately, some people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease might have been misdiagnosed all these years, experts say. It's called LATE (limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy) - and this latest discovery highlights the need to be better able to tell different kinds of dementia apart. [Full Article...]
Church of Scientology Cruise Ship Quarantined in St. Lucia’s Has Departed
Curacao health officials then alerted authorities in St. Lucia, who banned passengers from disembarking when they reached island. They said proof is required, and that people who do not comply will be vaccinated immediately. The Church of Scientology operates the ship and calls Curacao its home port. According to the church's website, the ship is a religious retreat for Scientology members. [Full Article...]
Diet beverages don't help kids cut calories
The study looked at data from over 7,000 children and teenagers, enrolled in the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2011 to 2016. Research by Johns Hopkins University suggested in 2014 that people's brains expect the energy they would get from a full-sugar drink - a can of Coca Cola contains 139 calories. [Full Article...]
Ambien, Other Sleep Aids Get FDA's 'Black Box' Label, Its Strongest Warning
Since current label warnings on sleep medications such as zolpidem (Ambien) and eszopiclone (Lunesta) don't seem to have prevented "sleep driving" and other unsafe effects, the FDA said it will now put a black box around those warnings . [Full Article...]
Video shows hospital staff dropping baby seconds after birth
KNXV reports the premature twin girl fell out of the Chandler Regional Medical Center employee's hand and landed on a table seconds after she was born. And because the original hospital has been so quiet on the matter of their daughter's health, the parents are left to suspect that the fall might be the cause of their daughter's injury. [Full Article...]
Congo Ebola death toll nears 1,000, expected to spread
A volatile security situation and deep community mistrust have hampered efforts to control the epidemic in eastern Congo. Worldwide aid organizations stopped their work in the two communities because of the violence . World Health Organization has maintained that this Ebola outbreak is geographically contained even as the number of cases rises in a dense, highly mobile population near the borde... [Full Article...]
Measles case confirmed in Alabama
There is a blood test that can check your antibodies and let you know if you're at risk. Andrew Pavia, chief of the division of pediatric infectious disease at University of Utah Health, said he's often asked, "What's the big deal?" about measles because it's just "a childhood disease". [Full Article...]