HEALTH

Parkinson’s disease afflicts thousands more Americans than previous estimates: new study

Some 90,000 people are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in the United States each year — which is roughly a 50% increase...

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Chinese hospitals ‘extremely busy’ as COVID spreads unchecked

CHENGDU (Reuters) -Chinese hospitals were under intense pressure on Wednesday as a surge of COVID-19 infections strained medical resources, while the scale...

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‘Things could always be worse’: Greenville nonprofit remains positive after pipes burst after Christmas

Instead of patients, fans filled the Carolina Family Services facility Monday morning. “Things could always be worse,” Executive Director Jennifer Brooks said....

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Chinese buy cold medicine overseas amid severe drug shortage

Chinese people are buying huge quantities of cold medicine in countries like Japan and Thailand, spurred by the severe drug shortage in...

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After year with cancer, Star Tribune editor still here, still swinging

Greetings, everyone, and happy holidays. It’s me again. It was exactly six months ago, halfway to Christmas, that I shared a part...

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Hospital sets final day for patients in Madera for Jan. 3. Here are remaining health options

At full strength, Madera Community Hospital used to employ as many as 700 people, from nurses, respiratory and radiation technicians and orderlies...

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Chinese cities give out free fever drugs as COVID flares

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Cities in China began distributing free anti-fever drugs to the public, as COVID-19 sweeps through the world’s most populous...

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Olympic gold skier Bode Miller’s son, 3, hospitalized after suffering febrile seizure

The wife of Bode Miller, a 2010 Olympic gold medalist, said on Instagram that the couple’s 3-year-old son was hospitalized on Tuesday...

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Walgreens, CVS limit sales of children’s medications amid ‘tripledemic’

CVS and Walgreens are limiting how many children’s pain relief medications people can buy at once amid a winter “tripledemic” of respiratory viruses,...