Kids should also be taught safe sun exposure along with other habits that they carry over to adulthood, says expert. Sunlight is important for everyone as daily dose of vitamin D is availed from it which in return helps the body in absorbing calcium. However, just 15 minutes a day […]

Two pathogen reduction technologies is said to be funded by the US government to help reduce the Zika virus risk along with other typs of infections too from being transmitted through blood supply. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Monday to be allocating $30.8 million to Cerus […]

About 5,000 nurses of Twin Cities from five hospitals will be walking out of work on Sunday at 7 a.m. The hospitals which will be affected are operated by Allina Health – Abbott Northwestern in Minneapolis, Mercy in Coon Rapids, United in St. Paul, Unity in Fridley, and Philips Eye […]

In a new research it is found working out for about four hours after studying helps in improving long-term memory. It also helps in retaining new information. The study has been conducted by experts from Donders Institute in the Netherlands’ Radbound University Medical Center. Details of it are published in […]

Oral health services will be expanded in Missouri and twenty of its health centers are entitled to get funds. Jordan Valley Community Health Center in Springfield alone is said to be getting $350,000. Nationwide $156 million funding is being sanctioned to support 420 health centers in 47 states, Puerto Rico […]

In a new study it is found the Zika virus in late pregnancy may cause fewer birth defects. The researchers claim greatest risk to infants comes in early pregnancy. Columbia University infectious diseases expert D. W. Ian Lipkin said the birth defects may also occur in women who get no […]