Kids Health

Read this before you set foot in Dollar General again

It may be tempting to get most of your shopping done at Dollar General. After all, it’s affordable, and according to GlobalData Retail, 75 percent of Americans live within five minutes of one of the stores (via Business Insider). However, before you go in and load up your cart, there are some things you might […]

Health News

CDC will again post COVID-19 hospitalization data

(HealthDay)—In a quick policy reversal, the Trump administration on Thursday told the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to once again post data about COVID-19 hospitalizations on its website. Earlier in the week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ordered the CDC to stop posting the data because it was doing so […]

Health News

FDA: Safe to Eat Romaine Lettuce Again, but Check Labels

TUESDAY, Nov. 27, 2018 — In a statement released late yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., announced that the agency was lifting its advisory against eating romaine lettuce, first put in place last Tuesday. At that point, the agency had not been able to narrow down the source of the […]

Health Problems

Fear and anger as cholera strikes again in Zimbabwe

Sixty-year-old Emma Zhakata winces, struggling to hold back tears as she relates how her husband, one of 32 cholera victims in Zimbabwe, died within hours of falling ill. She never suspected her 69-year-old husband, Wonder Zhakata, would die suddenly after complaining that he felt weak and was suffering stomach pain. After she rushed her husband […]