Mumps cases reach 20-year high in Texas

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Mumps cases reach 20-year high in Texas

WFAA
TEXAS – So far this year, there have been 221 mumps cases, the largest total since there were 234 cases in 1994, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Cosmopolitan weight-loss article enrages social media: ‘Cancer is not a diet plan’

FOX 61
It was like any other Tuesday on Cosmopolitan’s Twitter feed, with tweets about a possible Gilmore Girls revival, women who apply makeup with tampons, and … a weight loss story that sent the internet into a tizzy. The offending tweet, since deleted

Mother shares heartbreaking final moments of 4-year-old’s battle with cancer

FOX 61
“Two months. Two months since I’ve held you in my arms, heard how much you loved me, kissed those sweetie “pie” lips. Two months since we’ve snuggled.

Family says hospital wouldn’t give teen lung transplant over pot

Fox News
When a teen in Utah was denied a lung transplant necessary to save his life because he had smoked pot a few days prior to coming down with the flu, his family cried foul, reports KSL.

LIVE STREAM: April the Giraffe’s calf has ‘significant movement’

WDIV Detroit
Big and happy. We did note significant movement from the calf today during observation times. April had a few visitors (industry friends) from out of state that were shocked to see just how large she is.

Newlyweds contract rare brain parasite during Hawaiian honeymoon

CNN
(CNN) Among the lures of Maui, second-largest of the Hawaiian islands, is an area known for being less developed than most other regions of our 50th state.

Legalizing pot: What to watch for in today’s long-awaited bill

Yahoo News
Canada is about to do something very few countries in the world have tried: make recreational pot legal. Today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government will reveal precisely what it thinks legalization should look like, and there are a ton of

Illinois’ hospital safety ranking drops to 23rd in nation

Chicago Tribune
Jeanette Goodwin, 49, is ready for radiation treatment at the new Cancer Care Center of the Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center in Chicago on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017.

Trans fats ban linked to better health in state

Albany Times Union
FILE – In this Friday, Sept. 29, 2006 file photo, H. Kenneth Woods, chef and owner of Sylvia’s restaurant, cooks southern fried chicken using a soy bean oil that doesn’t contain trans fats in New York’s Harlem neighborhood.

Hospital grants dying man’s last wish for glass of wine, cigarette

Palm Beach Post
Carsten Flemming Hansen, 75, enjoys a glass of wine and a cigarette at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark. Hansen died on Friday, April 7, 2017.

Bedbugs resistant to more pesticides, study finds

ABC News
The rise of bedbugs in the last few decades may be due in large part to the their ability to resist insecticides used against them.

49 Photos That Show What Autism Looks Like

Huffington Post
In honor of Autism Awareness Month, we reached out to the HuffPost Parents Facebook community. By Caroline Bologna. “Worry,” “fear,” “chaos,” “exhaustion,” “hope,” “love.

Cholera spreading in Somalia, 50000 cases foreseen: WHO

Reuters
GENEVA More than 25,000 people in famine-threatened Somalia have been struck by cholera or acute watery diarrhoea and the deadly epidemic should double by this summer, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.

‘Clean eating’: How good is it for you?

BBC News
Young people are being warned that faddy diets are putting their health at risk. The National Osteoporosis Society found that a fifth of under-25s were cutting out or reducing dairy in their diet, which can affect their bones.

Fund vital AIDS relief programs in Africa

Charleston Post Courier
Last week in Gaborone, Botswana, Laura and I sat in a small room in Tlokweng Main Clinic, a facility that recently started screening and treating women for cervical cancer.

Ticks are out; know the risks

The Kingston Whig-Standard
Adrienne Hansen-Taugher, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health’s manager of communicable disease and emergency preparedness, and public health nurse Joan Black catch a tick on Sept.

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