Neutrogena, a popular cosmetics brand, is voluntarily recalling disposable makeup wipes that may have been contaminated with a bacteria that can cause serious health risks. More than 1,300 of the brand’s towelettes tested positive for Pluralibacter gergoviae, or P. gergoviae, a naturally occurring bacteria commonly found in beauty products, according to data from the FDA….
Hong Kong residents aged 18 to 49 who have chronic illnesses can receive a subsidised flu jab later this year under health authorities’ plan to expand the city’s vaccination programme, the Post has learned. The new move would help to identify the city’s hidden population with chronic illnesses and provide them with stronger community healthcare…
HOUSTON (WKRC) – A rheumatologist was caught defrauding Medicare and Medicaid by falsely diagnosing people, performing chemotherapy on healthy patients and prescribing unnecessary drugs that caused harm, among other things. Jorge Zamora-Quezada, 68, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release for orchestrating a health care fraud scheme involving…
EAGLEVILLE, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — Amanda Phillips used her experience fighting Crohn’s disease to create a line of adaptive clothes fit for patients like herself. She left her career in finance to start her small business, ‘BeWell.’ Through it, she sells shirts fit with discreet zippers to facilitate bloodwork, IVs, ports, breastfeeding, and more. BeWell has…