Health News

October 23, 2017

Boston Marathon bombing survivors award scholarship

Two amputee survivors of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing are awarding a scholarship to a college sophomore who lost a leg ...

October 23, 2017

Jurors to begin deliberating in meningitis outbreak case

Jury deliberations are set to begin in the case of a Massachusetts pharmacist charged with murder in the 2012 meningitis ...

October 21, 2017

Second bacterium found in Louisiana mass food poisoning

Louisiana health officials say a second bacterium apparently contributed to the mass food poisoning that may have killed one ...

October 21, 2017

Court, for now, blocks immigrant teen's access to abortion

An appeals court is blocking, for now, an abortion sought by a pregnant 17-year-old immigrant being held in a Texas facility, ...

October 21, 2017

Judge tosses $417M award against Johnson & Johnson

A judge on Friday tossed out a $417 million jury award to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer by using Johnson ...

October 21, 2017

Officials: Jambalaya at fundraiser sickens more than 100

Louisiana's health department says salmonella from the chicken and sausage jambalaya at a softball team's fundraiser may have ...

October 20, 2017

Prosecutor: Pharmacist in meningitis case gambled with lives

A pharmacist charged with murder in a meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people knew that mold and other bacteria were ...

October 20, 2017

Lawsuit: Prison did nothing as fungus ruined inmate's brain

An Kansas prison inmate died in April after a brain fungus gave him a form of meningitis that left him weak and so ...

October 20, 2017

94 deaths from plague in Madagascar, UN health agency says

An unusually large plague outbreak in Madagascar has taken 94 lives, the World Health Organization said Friday. The number ...

October 20, 2017

Hurricane Maria death toll rises to 49 in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello says the death toll from Hurricane Maria has risen to 49 in the U.S. territory after ...

October 20, 2017

Australian state takes step toward legalizing euthanasia

An Australian state took a step toward allowing voluntary euthanasia on Friday, 20 years after the country repealed the ...

October 20, 2017

Helen DeVos, who backed health, education causes, dies at 90

Helen J. DeVos, a philanthropist from western Michigan known for her support of children's health, Christian education and ...

October 19, 2017

UN says plague cases in Madagascar almost doubled in 5 days

The number of plague cases in Madagascar has almost doubled over the last five days and medical experts project the situation ...

October 19, 2017

Marburg hemorrhagic fever kills 1 person in Uganda

One Ugandan has died of Marburg, a highly infectious disease that, like Ebola, manifests as a viral hemorrhagic fever, ...

October 19, 2017

US regulators approve 2nd gene therapy for blood cancer

U.S. regulators on Wednesday approved a second gene therapy for a blood cancer, a one-time, custom-made treatment for ...

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October 19, 2017

Former drug czar nominee Marino defends role in opioid law

President Donald Trump's former nominee to be the nation's drug czar is defending his role in writing a law that critics say ...

October 18, 2017

Lawsuit: Bighorn sheep threatened by domestic sheep grazing

The U.S. Forest Service is illegally jeopardizing a small herd of bighorn sheep with deadly diseases by allowing thousands ...

October 18, 2017

Anthem will turn to CVS after troubled Express Scripts deal

Anthem has found a new partner to help run prescription drug coverage after the Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurer's rocky ...

October 18, 2017

Sweden won't prosecute Italian stem cell scientist

Swedish prosecutors have abandoned an investigation against a disgraced Italian stem cell scientist suspected of involuntary ...