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Daily exposure chemicals called phthalates, used in the manufacture of plastic food containers and many cosmetics, may lead to roughly 100,000 premature deaths among older Americans each year, a new study shows. The resulting annual economic burden is between $40 billion and $47 billion, a value more than quadruple that of previous estimates.

Analysis: we will be spending more time indoors this winter and airborne transmission means the risk of the virus spreading is even greater

Aussie parents grappling with the idea of sending their children back to school are calling for air purifiers to be rolled out in classrooms here. Suvir is one parent who would like to see the technology, which is already being used in hospitals and schools elsewhere, to be utilised in Australia.

B.C. is more than a month behind Alberta and Ontario in offering booster shots to fully vaccinated residents of care homes

Study finds kids to be potential spreaders of COVID-19 and emerging variants

If you have an autoimmune disease, you are probably ready to try anything that will help your symptoms and reduce inflammation in your body. Perhaps you have heard of autoimmune protocol (AIP) diets as well. Don’t know where to start? I explain how to follow an AIP diet and how to reintroduce foods. This blog of AIP recipes and AIP food list is for you! You can download the recipes and food lists as well in an easy PDF format.

Q. My doctor told me I should get a home monitor to keep tabs on my blood pressure. Which number is most important in the reading, the top or the bottom one?

Today, the White House announced that fully vaccinated foreign nationals can travel freely in and out of the United States beginning Nov 8.

TB patients have become collateral damage in the train wreck that is COVID-19. Until the emergence of COVID, tuberculosis was the deadliest infectious disease in the world. But health care workers were making slow, steady progress to contain it. Now for the first time in more than a decade the death toll from TB is rising.

TORONTO -- A new study tested more than 900 samples from high-touch surfaces in Ontario grocery stores for SARS-CoV-2 and found zero positive results, suggesting the risk of exposure to the virus in grocery stores is low.