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A large six-nation study has showed that huge help can be provided to the very poorest of the poor to meet their basic needs for survival by providing them goats, sheep, chickens or other livestock. Training could also be provided to them under a program to help them make money by using the above mentioned items.

Economist Dean Karlan of Yale University and the nonprofit Innovations for Poverty Action has to say that such an approach does not mean complete eradication of poverty, but will certainly reduce the impact of impoverishment by a big margin for participants.

A joint investigation has been launched by the New Mexico Department of Health, the City of Albuquerque Environmental Health Department and the New Mexico Environment Department into many illnesses caused by Salmonella paratyphi. Six New Mexico residents have been confirmed with the illness caused by Salmonella paratyphi.

The stint is on to determine the source of the outbreak. Of the six affected people, five reported eating sushi containing raw fish. Possible exposures linked to sushi are being investigated by the City of Albuquerque Environmental Health Department and the New Mexico Environment Department. The investigation is also getting support from federal agencies, including the CDC and other states.

Health officials in Massachusetts on Friday overhauled the process of granting licenses for medical marijuana dispensaries.

Regulators from the administration of Governor Charlie Baker revamped licensing strikes away the subjectivity and secrecy that had ruined the system under former governor Deval Patrick’s tenure.

It has been found that the controversy surrounding the previous system sparked more than two dozen lawsuits, and left patients without any dispensaries 2½ years after voters approved marijuana for medical use.

A new map released by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has offered the most distinctive causes of death in each state across the country. The map suggests that heart disease and cancer could be counted as the leading cause of mortality around the United States. The CDC map uses the data and medical records between 2001 and 2010.

After heart related ailments and cancers, diabetes, flu related illnesses and inflammatory diseases of pelvic organs were among the causes of death.

Some of the ratings highlighted in the map were quite surprising, such as in mining states of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky, where pneumoconioses, was the most distinctive cause of death. Pneumoconioses are brought on by inhaling certain dusts.

The Boardman Relay for Life always has something interesting when it starts and on Friday night, the Survivors Lap featured some enthralling stories. According to the Survivors Lap, it was for a number of people in the country who have been saved by the American Cancer Society due to the funding from Relay for Life.

On Friday, two individuals who have beaten cancer twice were holding a banner of the Survivors Lap at Boardman Center Middle School. It included John Whitinger, who is founder of Poland Relay. According to Whitinger, he came back to the place where his journey against the cancer had started.

According to Columbia University researchers, a new study conducted by them has found that more than half of the popular probiotics contain traces of gluten. That amount of gluten could trouble a number of people who are suffering from digestive illnesses, the researchers said.

The Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University stated that the researchers examined more than 20 top-selling probiotics and found that about 55% of them contained detectable gluten. Samantha Nazareth, a gastroenterologist at CUMC and lead author of the study, said probiotics are very popular as a number of people who have been suffering from celiac disease take dietary supplements.