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Certain surgical gowns and surgical packs made by Cardinal Health may not be sterile and should not be used, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. On Jan. 11 and Jan. 15, 2020, the medical device maker alerted its customers about quality issues affecting some of its Level 3 surgical gowns and PreSource procedural packs that contain these gowns. […] Data reported in the just published American Heart Association’s Heart & Stroke Statistics—2020 Update, show heart disease and stroke deaths continue to decline, but that trend has slowed significantly in recent years. Further discouraging is that more people are living in poor health, beginning at a younger age, as a direct result of risk factors that contribute to these leading […] DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: As scientists find that a powerful hallucinogenic can ‘reboot’ the brain… Could magic mushrooms be the new Prozac? Many of our most effective and lifesaving drugs are based on unpleasant and even toxic substances. Penicillin, for example, the antibiotic that has saved countless lives, is produced by fungi called penicillium, which appear as mould on bread and […] Robbie Williams is one of those rare boyband escapees who has gone on to achieve runaway success as a solo artist, selling millions of records worldwide and topping the UK charts numerous times. The star has also attracted headlines over the years for other reasons too – his battles with alcoholism and substance abuse have largely played out in the […] UK will ‘send in military’ to rescue 200 trapped Brits after China BLOCKS them from leaving: Coronavirus evacuees ordered to abandon loved ones and are warned: ‘if you’re sick you’ll be left behind’ UK Government was due to send a plane to pull people out of Wuhan today It would have brought back as many as 200 expats and citizens […] Happiness is linked to hormones. If you feed them just the right kind of food, they can make life easy for you. It is said that you are what you eat. Your health, especially your mental health, is dependent on a lot of factors, one of them being food. Everybody wants to be happy in life, but happiness is not […] Women’s blood vessels AGE faster than men’s which increases their risk of heart diseases at a younger age, study claims Women aged 30 with high blood pressure ‘more likely to have heart disease’ This is because their blood vessels and arteries are less efficient at that age Authors of study say finding may reshape way doctors assess heart disease Women’s blood vessels age […] Inflammation in the human body has been revealed to be managed through a unique, highly-organised shape of receptors that ‘dance’ across a cell surface, according to new research. The discovery, published in Science Signaling today, explains how this process makes cells decide whether to die, multiply or migrate across the body. The team, from the University of Reading and German […] “It happens when you least expect it. … It was my last semester before it was time for me to graduate. That’s when I found out.” Morgan Park resident Angela Williams was 40 years old in 2015 when she received a diagnosis of cervical cancer following a routine gynecological checkup. “There are so many emotions when you hear the word […] Rush University Medical Center is the first health care organization to launch medical record company Epic’s module for genomic results, giving providers the tools they need to tailor patient care at the molecular level. Rush will use the module as part of its Precision Oncology Center to integrate the power of genomic sequencing data into oncologists’ daily workflows so they […]
FDA warns of surgical gowns that may not be sterile
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UK will 'send in the military' to rescue Brits in Wuhan
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Women's blood vessels age FASTER than men's, scientists find
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