WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials plan to review the safety and evidence behind alternative remedies like Zicam and Cold-Eeze, products that are protected by federal law, but not accepted by mainstream medicine.
By Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Escalating violence by Boko Haram militants in recent months has uprooted hundreds of thousands in northeast Nigeria and led to a “humanitarian crisis”, aid agencies said on Thursday, amid fears that post-election unrest could hamper aid efforts. More than 1.2 million people have been displaced within Nigeria, while almost 200,000 have fled to neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon since Boko Haram launched
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s authorities said on Friday they had discovered the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus in two dead pelicans in a nature reserve in northeastern part of the Balkan country, close to neighboring Romania. “Samples were taken from the two birds after 21 Dalmatian pelicans were found dead and both are positive,” the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency said in a statement. The agency said it had imposed
Although the focus of our cognitive behavioral approach to permanent weight loss is on helping people change how they think so they can make long lasting changes in their eating, we do provide them with certain guidelines about food. They start making these changes while they are learning how to diet. Some dieters, who already know about…
Indiana’s governor on Thursday authorized the short-term use of a needle-exchange program recommended by federal health officials to combat a worrisome outbreak of HIV infections in a rural county tied to intravenous prescription drug abuse. Republican Governor Mike Pence said he personally opposes needle-exchange programs but signed an emergency order allowing one to be used in Scott County in southern Indiana. Scott County has had 79 HIV cases since December,
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