November 20, 2014 Amish Mother Dies After Treating Burns With Home Remedy A severely burned Amish woman, treated with home remedies for two days before her family called 911, died of the infected burns, a county coroner said
November 20, 2014 Doctor Accused of Falsely Telling Patients They Had HIV A Manhattan doctor has been indicted for falsely telling about a dozen patients that they had HIV so he could put them on treatment and bill Medicaid for $700,000
November 20, 2014 Service Rat Licks Woman When It’s Time to Take Meds A California woman says she is able to stay healthy, thanks to the help of a rat. Dani Moore, who lives in Hesperia, Calif., has severe osteoporosis and her service rat, Hiyo Silver, will lick her face when the 56-year-old is about to have a muscle spasm
November 20, 2014 UN-Led Alliance Focuses on Young People and AIDS In a joint report released Wednesday titled "Opportunity in Crisis: Preventing HIV from early adolescence to young adulthood," five U.N. agencies, the World Bank and the International Labor Organization said that around the world some 2,500 young people are infected daily with HIV, and that in the year 2009 people between the ages of 15 and 24 accounted for 41 percent of new HIV infections among all those over the age of 15
November 20, 2014 AIDS Fight May Tilt More to Treatment After 30 years of AIDS prevention efforts, global leaders may now need to shift their focus to spending more on drugs used to treat the disease as new data show this is also the best way to prevent the virus from spreading
November 20, 2014 Spain Mulls Action Against Germany for E. Coli Blame Spain said on Wednesday it was considering legal action against German regional authorities for blaming its produce for an E. coli outbreak that has killed at least16 people in Germany, Sweden and other countries
November 20, 2014 Michigan Resident Among 4 Americans Sickened in E. Coli Outbreak A Michigan resident is among four people in the U.S. apparently sickened by a severe E. coli outbreak in Europe, which has killed 22 people, a state health official said
November 20, 2014 Woman Survives 4 Days Trapped in Bathroom After Fall A 75-year-old woman was Tuesday recovering in Townsville Hospital, north-eastern Australia, after spending four days trapped in her bathroom following a fall
November 20, 2014 Novartis Vaccine Shields Against Meningitis Cause Novartis AG's Bexsero vaccine helps protect toddlers against the most common cause of meningitis when used as a booster, the Swiss drugmaker said on Thursday, giving its meningitis franchise another lift
November 20, 2014 E. Coli Sickens 8 in Tenn., Kills 2-Year-Old in Va. A southwest Virginia 2-year-old died from an E. coli bacterial infection that also sickened another person in close contact with her, and East Tennessee hospitals have reported at least eight other E. coli infections since June 1