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Global Positioning System told to prioritise toddlers amid flu vaccine shortages
Dr Gerry Waldron, Assistant Director of Public Health (Health Protection) at the PHA, said: "We have been exploring how to best use the available stock based on evidence and clinical advice, and taking into account projections on the revised delivery schedule to maximise protection in the community". [Full Article...]
Breakthrough reported in vaping illness outbreak investigation
The CDC said the lack of THC in five of those samples does not definitively indicate the patients didn't use the drug, because THC can be hard to detect in samples taken from lungs. Vitamin E acetate is sometimes added to dilute the THC to increase profits or as a thickening agent. About two months ago, NY drew attention to vitamin E acetate when the state's public health lab discovered it in sa... [Full Article...]
Judge strikes down Trump administration's conscience rule for health care workers
The Trump administration announced the rule in May as an effort to protect the rights of people and institutions in the health care field who have moral objections to certain procedures like abortion, the provision of contraception, or "assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing". [Full Article...]
Jennifer Lopez was crying after scoring the Super Bowl halftime show
Speaking Monday in Barcelona, Spain where she lives with her long-term partner, Spanish soccer star Gerard Pique, and their two children, Shakira told The Associated Press she was fulfilling a dream which also had "a very important goal". [Full Article...]
'Very important' vaping decision will be issued next week
The vaping industry is facing unprecedented scrutiny amid a mysterious epidemic of lung conditions linked to e-cigarette use that has killed 39 people and sickened more than 2,000 in the U.S. "These results are unacceptable and that is why we must reset the vapor category in the USA and earn the trust of society by working cooperatively with regulators, Attorneys General, public health officia... [Full Article...]
US veteran ‘feeling whole’ year after penis transplant
The docs reported the replace on their affected person November 7 within the New England Journal of Remedy. Hopkins surgeon Dr. Richard Redett says the team is evaluating other possible transplant candidates but it's a lengthy process. One was performed in 2016, at Massachusetts General Hospital - the first penis transplant done in the United States. Curtis Cetrulo, a MA transplant surgeon who... [Full Article...]
Purdue Student Refused Cold Medicine Due to Puerto Rico ID
He handed it to the clerk. "That's when I tell her that was a US-issued license, and I didn't need anything else but that license". "A Puerto Rican license is a USA -issued license", he said. "We are fully investigating this matter to learn more about what occurred and we are seeking to speak with the customer directly", the statement read . [Full Article...]
Scientists discover first new HIV strain in nearly 2 decades
United States scientists at the medical device and healthcare major Abbott labs discovered a new strain of HIV virus, the company has announced. Dr Carole McArthur, the study's co-author, said that the discovery "reminds us that to end the HIV pandemic, we must continue to out think this continuously changing virus and use the latest advancements in technology and resources to monitor its evolut... [Full Article...]