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Anti-vaccine billboards claiming that routine childhood shots are deadly have popped up in several West Virginia cities. They warn that the son of former Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Nick Catone died from a vaccine, though the infant’s death was officially ruled to be sudden infant death syndrome. A physician director for the Cabell-Huntington Health Department,

Bill Wilson says he struggled with his weight all of his life, but the bad habits escalated when he started his own mobile app business in 2007. “I found myself hitting the drive-thru all the time and eating out all the time, business meetings, things like that, and just slowly, slowly, slowly gaining weight to

Julie Chrisley‘s weight-loss journey has been slow but steady. The Chrisley Knows Best star tells PEOPLE since she started using Nutrisystem in January, she has lost 20 lbs. “I figured out the foods that were the best fit for me, and I started just doing the breakfasts and the snacks and then I added in

Riverdale star Camila Mendes is sharing more about her struggles with bulimia — and how she’s found her path to happiness. The 24-year-old tells SHAPE why she talks about her eating disorder on social media. “I realized that I have this platform, and young women and men who look up to me, and there is a tremendous power

Cameran Eubanks has deleted a photo of herself getting a flu shot after coming under fire from those who are opposed to vaccinations. On Thursday, the Southern Charm reality star, 34, posted a picture of her bandage after getting a flu shot vaccine with an Instagram caption encouraging people to get one. However, hours later,

While planning a post-graduation trip with college friends, Loyola University Chicago senior Anna Wassman was totally focused on saving for her trip — until she noticed a lump in her right breast that she had definitely not felt before. A former professional ballerina who’s “very in tune with her body,” Wassman immediately called her doctor, who told

The findings are significant as they come ahead of the United Nations General Assembly’s first high-level meeting on September 26 that will focus on stepping up efforts to end TB. Private practitioners in India are delivering a wide range of largely inadequate care to TB patients, says a new study in PLoS Medicine. The study,

More than 230,000 children under 15 months of age were treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments between 1990 and 2014 due to infant walker-related injuries, according to a new study today published in the journal Pediatrics. More than 6,500 of those were cases of skull fracture, according to the study, whose authors actively support the

Cancer isn’t generally thought of as a contagious disease but three people are dead after cancer cells entered their bodies after they received organ transplants. According to Newsweek, a case study in the American Journal of Transplantation reports that three individuals lost their lives to breast cancer as a result of organs from one donor.

Interested in Cuba? National security agencies and members of Congress are frustrated by the lack of answers about what the United States describes as “health attacks” that have injured American diplomats in Cuba. A meeting Thursday between U.S. and Cuban officials was intended to try to help determine the method and motive behind those mysterious

Nothing ruins a trip like coming down with something. If you’re a frequent sufferer of post-vacation colds, there’s something in the airport you might want to be extra careful around: those airport security trays. According to a new study from the University of Nottingham and the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare, the plastic

The number of children in the United States who are being diagnosed with ADHD is on the rise, according to a new study. Using data collected between 1997 and 2016 by the National Health Interview Survey from over 180,000 children between the ages of 4 and 17, the study found the amount of kids diagnosed

In 2016 in India, 42,000 deaths among women and 2.9 lakh deaths among men were attributed to alcohol consumption Alcohol is associated with one in 10 deaths globally in people aged 15-49, according to a study, ‘Global Burden of Disease’, published in The Lancet. Overall, alcohol is linked to 2.8 million deaths each year worldwide,

When comedian Jim Gaffigan‘s wife Jeannie was diagnosed with a large brain tumor last year, the couple of 15 years only knew one way to cope: with humor. Now that Jeannie is feeling “great” as she continues to recover after undergoing a nine-hour surgery to remove the tumor last April, they’ve turned her diagnosis and

Dogs, cats, parrots, hamsters, and, for some people, even snakes and rats are often our best friends–and for good reason. Pet owners have lower blood pressure and less stress, and they exercise more, among other benefits. Kids who grow up with pets are actually less likely to end up with allergies. But pets can sometimes

The results showed that ageing, combined with a high fat and high sugar diet, results in increased inflammation and stress in the hippocampus — responsible for long-term memory While ageing has been long identified as a significant risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, a new study shows that obesity during middle age may contribute to the