The father of an 11-year-old girl in Cambodia who died this week after contracting bird flu has tested positive for the virus but has not displayed any major symptoms, health authorities said Friday. The death came amid heightened concerns over a wave of bird flu that has spread through much… Read More
Oat and soy products can be called milk, FDA proposes
Soy, oat, almond and other drinks that bill themselves as “milk” can keep using the name, according to draft federal rules released Wednesday. Food and Drug Administration officials issued guidance that says plant-based beverages don’t pretend to be from dairy animals – and that U.S. consumers aren’t confused by the… Read More
Bird flu kills 11-year-old girl, officials say
An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from bird flu in the country’s first known human H5N1 infection since 2014, health officials said. Bird flu, also known as avian influenza, normally spreads in poultry and wasn’t deemed a threat to people until a 1997 outbreak among visitors to live poultry… Read More
Soccer star out of hospital after being kicked in head
Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta has been discharged from the hospital and is “recovering well” after being kicked in the head during an English Premier League game, the club said on Tuesday. Azpilicueta was taken off on a stretcher wearing a neck brace and breathing from an oxygen mask following a… Read More
Jimmy Carter in home hospice care; tributes pour in
Former President Jimmy Carter, who at 98 years old is the longest-lived American president, has entered home hospice care in Plains, Georgia, a statement from The Carter Center confirmed Saturday. After a series of short hospital stays, the statement said, Carter “decided to spend his remaining time at home with… Read More
New test: 2 stroke survivors move arms after this
stroke left Heather Rendulic with little use of her left hand and arm, putting certain everyday tasks like tying shoes or cutting foods out of reach. “I live one-handed in a two-handed world and you don’t realize how many things you need two hands for until you only have one… Read More
Actor Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia; condition gets worse
Nearly a year after Bruce Willis’ family announced that he would step away from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, his family says his “condition has progressed.” In a statement posted Thursday, the 67-year-old actor’s family said Willis has a more specific diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. “While this is painful,… Read More
John Fetterman hospitalized again (twice in a week)
Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, still recovering from a near-fatal stroke he suffered less than a year ago, was hospitalized for the second time just one week. Fetterman checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center because of clinical depression, his office said. Fetterman, who has struggled with the… Read More
Unified panel backs moving opioid antidote Narcan over the counter
The overdose-reversing drug naloxone should be made available over the counter to aid the national response to the opioid crisis, U.S. health advisers said Wednesday. The panel of Food and Drug Administration experts voted unanimously in favor of the switch after a full day of presentations and discussions centered on… Read More
Ohioans outraged: Where’s the White House!?
After days of questions about lack of federal response disaster in Ohio, the White House has finally dispatched the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to get a first-hand look Thursday at a creek contaminated by a freight train derailment in Ohio that spilled toxic chemicals and burned in… Read More
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