San Francisco becomes first U.S. city to ban all sales of e-cigarettes
A woman exhales while vaping from a Juul pen e-cigarette. San Francisco has voted to ban the sale of all e-cigarettes in the city. (Craig […]
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FDA warns companies selling kratom products with opioid addiction cure claims
Kratom capsules in Albany, N.Y. in 2017. The FDA has not approved kratom for any medical use. (Mary Esch/Associated Press) The U.S. Food and Drug […]
Basketball’s Dikembe Mutombo records Ebola message
In this 2018, photo, Dikembe Mutombo speaks during the opening ceremony of Basketball without Borders Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa. He’s recorded radio and video […]
Postpartum depression or anxiety reported by nearly a quarter of moms: StatsCan
L-R: Karlee J. Scott, Thomas P. Sanders, Elizabeth Bush, and Ka’mauria J. Thomas are pictured as their mothers participate in the group pregnancy session to […]
Why did deer meat from an infected herd end up in Canada’s food chain?
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said ‘no animals known to be infected were released into the human food chain,’ after more than 2,000 deer from […]
Deer meat from contaminated Quebec farm released for human consumption
This undated photo provided by the journal Science shows White-tailed deer at the Colorado State University Chronic wasting disease (CWD) Research Facility in Fort Collins, […]
U.S. psychoanalysts apologize for labelling homosexuality an illness
A man walks down the street across from the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village, New York City. The medical community’s thinking about homosexuality began […]
Wakefulness drug modafinil tied to fetal harm, Health Canada warns
Modafinil is used to treat adults with excessive sleepiness. (Frank Gunn/Canadian Press) Women who are pregnant or may become pregnant should avoid the wakefulness-promoting drug […]
New heart patients could use cardio rehab after stenting, U.S. study says
Cleveland Clinic exercise physiologist Audra DiRauso sets up an exercise bike for Anthony Rugare during a cardiac rehabilitation class in 2009. Despite benefits from rehabilitation […]
These are the countries where people trust vaccines the least
Abel Zhang, 1, smiles after receiving the last of three inoculations, including a vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), as his mother Wenyi Zhang […]