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Toxins in Home Furnishings Can Be Passed to Kids
February 21, 2019
Semi-volatile organic compounds (or SVOCs) are widely used in electronics, furniture and building materials, and can be detected in nearly all indoor environment. Human exposure t...

Nurse Builds Database of Women Murdered By Men
February 21, 2019
Semi-volatile organic compounds (or SVOCs) are widely used in electronics, furniture and building materials, and can be detected in nearly all indoor environment. Human exposure t...

HPV Infections in Decline, Thanks to Vaccines
February 21, 2019
Semi-volatile organic compounds (or SVOCs) are widely used in electronics, furniture and building materials, and can be detected in nearly all indoor environment. Human exposure t...

U.S. Leads Rich Nations in Drug Overdose Deaths
February 21, 2019
Drug deaths in the United States are more than 27 times higher than in Italy and Japan, which have the lowest rates, and are double the rates of Finland and Sweden, the countries ...

FDA Proposes Major Changes to Sunscreen Rules
February 21, 2019
According to the FDA, 12 sunscreen ingredients lack sufficient data to support whether they are generally safe and effective. They are cinoxate, dioxybenzone, ensulizole, homosala...

Aggressive Breast Cancer Responds to New Drug
February 20, 2019
In the clinical trial of the new drug, sacituzumab govitecan, about a third of the patients responded to treatment and the effect lasted up to eight months. The research was funde...

Could Pacemakers Be Powered By Heartbeats One Day?
February 20, 2019
Battery-powered pacemakers have to be replaced every five to 12 years. So, some scientists have been working an alternative: battery-free pacemakers that in theory would never hav...

Kaiser Permanente Med School to Offer Free Tuition
February 20, 2019
Battery-powered pacemakers have to be replaced every five to 12 years. So, some scientists have been working an alternative: battery-free pacemakers that in theory would never hav...

FDA Head: Agency May Cut Kids' Vaccine Exemptions
February 20, 2019
The federal government could "mandate certain rules about what is and isn't permissible when it comes to allowing people to have exemptions," FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told ...

Cancer and Sugar: Is There a Link?
February 20, 2019
The federal government could "mandate certain rules about what is and isn't permissible when it comes to allowing people to have exemptions," FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told ...

High-Fat Diets Do No Favors for Your Gut Bacteria
February 20, 2019
The study showed that a high-fat diet is linked to unfavorable changes in the type and numbers of gut bacteria, known as the microbiome, as well increasing inflammatory triggers i...

Acupuncture Could Help Ease Menopausal Symptoms
February 20, 2019
The study showed that a high-fat diet is linked to unfavorable changes in the type and numbers of gut bacteria, known as the microbiome, as well increasing inflammatory triggers i...

?Young Blood? Clinics Shut Down After FDA Action
February 20, 2019
The study showed that a high-fat diet is linked to unfavorable changes in the type and numbers of gut bacteria, known as the microbiome, as well increasing inflammatory triggers i...

Gut Microbes May Help Drive Lupus, Study Finds
February 20, 2019
Comparing gut bacteria from lupus patients with bacteria from their healthy peers, scientists learned those with lupus had about five times more of the bacteria known as Ruminococ...

Walnuts, Almonds Help Hearts in Type 2 Diabetes
February 19, 2019
Eating five or more weekly servings of nuts also appears to lower the risk of premature death from heart disease or any other cause by about one-third for people with type 2 diabe...