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The United States is far from alone in experiencing shortages of essential drugs. In fact, countries around the world have seen a spate of recent medicine shortages to treat conditions such as HIV and diabetes, which clinicians say could threaten patient health.

Global COVID-19 cases are down 24% and COVID deaths down 6%, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in its weekly update.

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 and was experiencing “mild symptoms,” the White House announced Tuesday. President Joe Biden continues to test negative after recently recovering from the virus but will wear a mask indoors for 10 days as a precaution.

Foods fried in vegetable oil are popular worldwide, but research about the health effects of this cooking technique has been largely inconclusive and focused on healthy people. For the first time, UMass Amherst food scientists set out to examine the impact of frying oil consumption on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and colon cancer, using animal models.

Research continues to show a connection between lung cancer and air pollution exposure. Here’s how air pollution can lead to cancer.

Officials in southeast France said Friday they were urging some 56,000 young people to get vaccinated against meningitis, after 12 cases over the past year that led to at least one death.

A healthy substitute for sugar in baking may seem like a contradiction.  And it used to be.  

Back in the summer of 2005, I got a call to figure out a moisture problem in a new house.  The homeowners took me into the master suite, where the first thing to catch my eye was the towel folded neatly on the floor.

Growing up in Southern California, I recall countless days of not being allowed to play outdoors because of dangerously high levels of smog in the air.

The virus likely spread from animals to humans and can cause renal and liver failure