There's a big difference between having an Ebola infection and not having an Ebola infection.
A few weeks after returning to Sweden from Burundi, a man has been making headlines around the world, but not in a good way. He showed up at an emergency room in Enköping, Sweden, about...
(Reuters Health) - People who take a certain water pill prescribed to control fluid retention and treat high blood pressure may be more likely to get skin cancer than other individuals, a Danish study suggests. While the drug, hydrochlorothiazide, has long been linked to an increased risk...
Investigators at the Yale School of Medicine have recently discovered how the SARS-CoV-2 virus can directly infect the central nervous system. The findings have also begun to help give a more thorough understanding of how the virus impacts cells in the brain, potentially aiding in the development of treatments...
Boris Stern, A 92-year-old Battle of Bulge survivor has been reunited with a dog tag he lost days before the bloody World War II battle 73 years ago.
Thursday, an envelope addressed to Stern arrived from a man named Jean Paul Mandier in France. He picked it up at the...
The Chinese recently made public their use of anal swabs to screen patients for COVID-19.
This new method of testing arrives as China is now seeing a surge in new coronavirus cases ahead of their annual Lunar New Year celebrations.
The Hill reports that Chinese health care professionals only perform the...
Walgreens says its COVID-19 vaccine appointment scheduling website is back up and running Tuesday after users reported outages earlier in the day.
A Walgreens spokesperson said that they believe the outage was caused by an influx of people trying to schedule an appointment, crashing the server.
"We are committed to a seamless scheduling...
Several front-office employees for the Texas Rangers baseball team have tested positive for COVID-19, leaving some staff “terrified,” according to reports.
No players, coaches or operations personnel have tested positive for the virus, according to ESPN and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, which reported on the cases late Friday. The organization...
Quebec’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign is being expanded to include people with chronic conditions as well as people with mental and physical disabilities and their caregivers, Health Minister Christian Dubé announced Thursday.
It’s the last priority phase before the campaign moves to the general public, which will likely be at the...
A regional health authority north of Montreal says it is investigating after it was revealed one of its job postings last year for a patient attendant required candidates be white women.
Montreal La Presse reported today that health officials in Ste-Eustache, Que., northwest of Montreal, posted a job last fall...
A push to administer thousands of COVID-19 vaccines before they expire has shortened the recommended dosing interval for some Ontarians, but one expert says that any difference in protection is likely negligible.
The province announced last week that the first cohort of Ontarians who received the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot in March...
