Category: Health Care News

Anyone out there who tried Pathway’s genetic testing kit, the Pathway Genomics Insight Saliva Collection Kit, which supposedly helps people assess their risk for inherited diseases? Any review on the product? Is it good or bad, helpful or ridiculous, risky or safe, etc. etc.?

Anyhoo, the FDA isn’t impressed by the fact that the manufacturer is selling the test kit without the agency’s approval and so it sent the manufacturer a letter asking it to explain why it shouldn’t get its ass spanked.

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Shingrix Good or Bad? Is Shingles Vaccine Effective or Not? Is Shingrix, the GlaxoSmithKline shingles vaccine for adults aged 50 years old an up good or bad? Does it work or is it ineffective?

Well, the vaccine has proven to be effective 90% of the time during trials conducted by the drug company. This means that it works for nine out of ten people who are vaccinated using Shingrix. This means that it does not work in one out of ten cases which means that these folks will have to find another way of battling shingles.
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Gay Drugs 2015 – Tylenol For All Families. Poor Franklin Graham and his homophobic ilk. What will he do now that pain and headache drug has come out in support for marriage equality? Will he grin and bear his headache?

Unlikely because blusterous people like him almost always come out to be Class A wimps. Will he find another drug company that shares his values of demonizing gay people? Sure he can always do that.

But, with the way the wind is blowing, it’s unlikely that he’ll ever find any pharmaceutical company that is sympathetic to his unChristian beliefs.

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Nightmare Bacteria: 8 Important Things You Should Know About CRE Superbug. What should you do if there’s a superbug out there which is antibiotic resistant and which kills 50% of people it infects? Well, the first thing we should do is learn more about the superbug which is why we are posting this list of 8 Things You Should Know About the Nightmare Bacteria (aka CRE Superbug):

1. It Is Deadly. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the nightmare bacteria “kill up to half of patients who get bloodstream infections from them”.

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Tick Bite Deaths: Can You Die From Tick Infection? Can you die from tick infection? Yes you can! Sure tick bites, for the most part, are not fatal but infected ticks can pass on their deadly viruses to a victim and this can have deadly consequences.

Let’s check out several cases from around the world where seemingly harmless tick bites caused the deaths of patients.

North Carolina, USA. ABC News reports on the case of Emilee Russell, a six-year-old girl from North Carolina who “died from Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a bacterial infection transmitted by ticks”.

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