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The harrowing, deadly infection could make a comeback, especially in states vulnerable to climate-linked natural disasters, like Florida and Texas, an NBC News investigation finds.

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17 Foods To Eat When You Have a Cold

HEALTH.COM – These foods may help ease cold symptoms and promote recovery. 1. Bananas Bananas are easy on the digestive system and tend to remain one of the few appealing foods when your appetite diminishes due to illness. Bananas contain fructans, which are sugars that have antiviral properties and can promote immunity. 2. Berries If you have a cold, try eating berries, such as blueberries and raspberries. These fruits have several healthful antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, and antiviral properties. 3. Broth Broth...

Baby defies all odds after growing outside his mom’s womb

Suze Lopez holds her baby boy on her lap and marvels at the remarkable way he came into the world.

Addiction-enablers running out of supplies after Trump’s order: HEADLINE HEALTH

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, “DO NOT USE.” They contain cookers and sterile water that people use to shoot up drugs. The supplies, which came from the state and were paid for with federal money, were for a program where drug users exchange dirty needles for clean ones, part of a strategy known as harm reduction. But under a July executive...

Earn $265,000 per year while collecting taxpayer subsidies? Must be nice …

The suit alleges HHS made the cuts in retaliation for the doctors' group speaking out against the Trump administration's positions and actions.

2 Dead in Pennsylvania Nursing Home Blasts

A resident and an employee were killed after two explosions at the Bristol Health and Rehab Center resulted in a large fire and partial collapse of the building, officials said.

Oysters are likely source of nationwide Salmonella outbreak

FOOD SAFETY NEWS – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting that 64 people from 22 states have been confirmed with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Telelkebir. Of 44 people with the information available, 20 have required hospitalization. The true number of sick people in this outbreak is likely much higher than the number reported, and the outbreak may not be limited to the states with known illnesses. This is because many people...

RFK’s New Infatuation With a Danish Model

THE BULWARK – ONE OF THE MORE FASCINATING and revealing twists of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s crusade against vaccines is the way it holds up the policies of Denmark—tiny, socialist Denmark—as a model for America. Denmark’s official vaccine guidelines for children are narrower than ours. They include the older, more familiar vaccines for diseases like measles, mumps, and pertussis. But they don’t include more recently developed shots for diseases like RSV, rotavirus, and meningococcal disease. Roughly...

What Is a Grief Attack?

THE NEW YORK TIMES – Jane Griffin, 71, knew that her husband was dying — he had been living with Lewy body dementia for more than a decade. But she didn’t anticipate how losing him this April would affect her. Something small, like seeing one of his favorite foods at the grocery, could “send me on a downhill spiral,” Ms. Griffin said. She would feel unexpectedly tense up, her heart racing as a wave of emotions...

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