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Now, the total number of confirmed cases of dengue on Hawaii Island has reached to 11 after one more case was confirmed by the state Department of Health. As per the officials, the disease has been acquired locally.

Number of cases is on rise. Therefore, the state Department of Health officials want to pass on a message to the residents that they should take all the steps needed to prevent misquito bites.

Dr. Melissa Viray, deputy state epidemiologist, said, “Making sure that they don’t have any standing water around their homes, their screens are intact, if they are going out and about, that they properly use insect repellent”.

Preliminary testing of two long-acting injectable drugs has indicated that it could be possible to keep HIV at bay forever with injections every month or two. On Tuesday, Johnson & Johnson and partner ViiV Healthcare, which is specialized in HIV drugs, announced the finding of the first 32 weeks of the scheduled 96-week study, which has combined one drug from each company.

Major additional testing is required but the combination treatment would be a first if gets approval and may ultimately be a big advance over a disease, which was once almost universally fatal.

On Tuesday, Rep. Tim Murphy has introduced an updated version of his sweeping mental health reform legislation, seeking to allay some of the concerns of Democrats. The move has come a day before the bill was marked up in the House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee.

The measure was billed as the Republican response to the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. Firstly introduced in 2013, it has been controversial and delayed for years, but has now started moving forward.

The bill has received some bipartisan support, among its supporters 43 of 154 cosponsors were Democrats, but Democrats on the Energy and Commerce committee have come up with objections to many core parts.

In Colorado, three cases of life-threatening typhoid fever have been confirmed. CBS Denver has reported that all three of the sickened ones had eaten at a Qdoba Mexican Grill in Firestone in August.

State epidemiologist Dr. Lisa Miller with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, said that although the outbreak happened in August, the three illnesses have been reported only in recent weeks because the incubation of the rare infection and diagnosis take time.

The symptoms suffered by the infected customers included headaches, fever and other symptoms. Miller said that two of the three people were in fact hospitalized, which means they were very sick. CBS Denver reported that the three patients have now recovered.

Nowadays climate change is the most talked about topic in the top discussions held all over the world, but it seem that American public is least concerned about it. According to a new poll conducted by The Associated Press- NORC Center for Public Affairs Research most Americans pay very little attention to the issue of climate change.

According to climate and social scientists, the least botheration among American public restrict them from demanding and getting the changes that are very important to stop the global warming to reach a point where it becomes a crisis.

The AP-NORC poll that was conducted in mid-October has shown that almost two out of three Americans accept that global warming, but a majority of these people do not blame human activities for climate change.

So far, we have heard that climate change is causing melting down of ice sheet in Antarctica. This affect of climate change is said to be most devastating in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the glaciers along the Antarctic Peninsula. But now, a new study has shown that Antarctica's ice has grown over past two or more decades.

But several experts have shown their disagreement on the results of a recent study by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). They said the research refute all the previously conducted scientific investigations, including the ones that were performed by NASA researchers themselves.