Health news from leading news agencies
Reuters
- Rise in crime tied to rising blood pressure
- Survey logs big one-year jump in nicotine vaping among 8th-graders
- GSK's over-the-counter nicotine oral spray gets FDA panel backing
- One pill with four drugs may lower heart risks in poor population
- India bans e-cigarettes as global backlash at vaping gathers pace
- Childhood behavior problems linked to insomnia in adulthood
- Vegetarians have higher risk for stroke, lower heart disease risk
- U.S. charges 58 in Texas with healthcare fraud, illegal opioid distribution
- Factbox: India becomes latest country to ban sale of e-cigarettes
- Tanzania tells WHO it has no Ebola cases - statement
Foxnews
- Michigan man went from ‘perfectly healthy to brain dead’ in 9 days after contracting rare mosquito-borne disease, report says
- Young children getting their hands on marijuana-infused brownies, gummies in legal states, poison control centers say
- Rhode Island girl, 6, nearly dies after contracting rare mosquito-borne EEE virus: 'We could have lost her'
- 1 in 16 US women say first sexual experience was forced, coerced: study
- Parents of baby 'killed by kiss' welcome son on first anniversary of infant's death
- Penny-sized battery found lodged in 2-year-old's throat: 'I nearly lost my little girl'
- Virginia woman delivered son in bathtub after hospital sent her home, she says
- Mom had heart attack while driving kids to school: 'I can sit here and die or I'll drive'
- Texas mom nearly dies from vaping-linked lung illness: 'I wasn’t even a smoker before'
- Janitor comforting student with autism goes viral for act of kindness
BBC
- Finding good care home 'impossible' in some areas
- Boris Johnson 'glad' about new father's NHS confrontation
- Vaginal birth and Caesarean: Differences in babies' bacteria
- 'Systemic' failings with 999 call-handling service criticised
- India e-cigarettes: Ban announced to prevent youth 'epidemic'
- Gareth Thomas: 'Tabloids took my right to discuss HIV with my parents'
- Belgians raise €1.9m for baby's life-saving drug
- Boris Johnson confronted on east London hospital visit
- Can you turn around the health of an entire town?
- Inquiry into safety and wellbeing concerns at two hospitals