Category: 6. Health

Children in the UK are to be immunised against chickenpox at the same time as measles, mumps and rubella.

The NHS across the UK’s four home nations will administer a combined vaccine to young children to protect them against all four diseases…

Long-Term Study Links Specific Midlife Symptoms of Depression to Later Dementia Risk

A 23-year study from researchers in the United Kingdom has found a connection between specific symptoms of depression in midlife and the…

Influenza is hitting Routt County earlier this year than last flu season, according to Routt County Public Health, and the number of positive flu cases is 71% higher now than the same time last year, according to UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical…

Point of care testing takes place where the patient is seeking care. This could be in a clinic, a community health centre, or even in other…

Hospitals in the Greater Baltimore region have been dealing with the brunt of a tough flu season, especially with crowding in emergency rooms.

It follows a nationwide trend as flu numbers are up all across the country.

One of the leaders at…

For the past four years I’ve been breaking every rule of appropriate, normal behaviour. I’ve poked, probed, inserted, stabbed and cut people in their most intimate body parts. I’ve examined dissected bodies and riffled through a bucket of…