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Finnish researchers found that adults in their country at risk for heart disease and stroke who took cholesterol- or blood pressure-lowering medications were more likely to reduce their activity levels and gain weight....Read More

The Chinese National Health Commission reported 65 new deaths from the coronavirus on Tuesday, raising the death toll in China to 490....Read More

World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has asked public health officials in countries impacted by the 2019 novel coronavirus to improve data-sharing in response to the outbreak....Read More

A study has found that more than half of all opioid prescriptions for dental procedures written in the U.S. between 2011 and 2016 exceeded the three-day supply limit recommended by the CDC....Read More

Hong Kong became the second place outside mainland China to record a death from a mysterious new disease on Tuesday as the Chinese government announced 64 people had died nationwide from the day prior....Read More

Chinese health officials announced Tuesday that the number of deaths connected to the coronavirus increased by 64 from the day prior, raising the global death toll to 426....Read More

CDC officials on Monday revealed there are 11 total confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S., announced a second person-to-person transmission and defended its aggressive response to an “unprecedented situation.”...Read More

In research published in JAMA Internal Medicine, processed meat consumption increased heart disease risk by nearly 2 percent, while partaking in un-processed red meat appeared to increase risk by less than 1 percent....Read More

No new countries have reported confirmed cases of the 2019 novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the WHO reported Monday, with 14,557 cases currently known worldwide, 14,411 of which have been in China....Read More

The U.S. declared a public health emergency over the outbreak on Friday, and the CDC also said it placed 195 Americans evacuated from China on quarantine, the first time for such an action in more than...