Health officials say the shortage is only temporary and supplies of the high-dose shots often used by seniors will be available soon.
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Juul halts sales of fruit, dessert flavors for e-cigarettes
Juul, the best-selling e-cigarette brand in the U.S., has been besieged by scrutiny, including multiple investigations by Congress, the Food and Drug Administration and several state attorneys general.
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Study: Opioid crisis cost U.S. economy $631 billion over 4 years
The cost of this year’s crisis is likely to be between $171 billion and $214 billion.
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Regularly working 10 hours a day may increase stroke risk
Log long hours for 10 years and the risk appears to rise to 45 percent more than for those who work less.
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Who says you can’t eat red meat? Food advice questioned anew
Health experts are wrestling with how solid scientific findings should be before guidance is issued, how to address biases that might skew conclusions and whether the pleasure we get from eating should be considered.
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Taco Bell pulls beef from some stores over quality concerns
Affected locations are in Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and elsewhere.
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Flu shots offered around Maine as experts say this season may be bad
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and community groups step up their immunization efforts as the state reports its first illnesses.
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First flu cases of the season reported in Maine
Public health authorities recommend immunizations for anyone who is 6 months old or older.
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Interactive search: See who donated to overturn Maine’s new vaccination law
Mainers for Health and Parental Choice, a political action committee, has raised $161,841 this year for a campaign to overturn a new state law to limit exemptions for childhood vaccinations in Maine. Another PAC set up to defend the vaccination law, Maine Families for Vaccines, was created in late September and has not reported any contributions. […]
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For the first time in decades, EPA to overhaul how cities test for lead in water
“It’s a national embarrassment,” one expert says of the current rule, which has been in place since 1991.