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Drug-resistant malaria: the world's next big health crisis? - TRFN MIN SAW, Myanmar (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ka Lar Nar caught malaria for the sixth time when he was working away from home on his small farm in the jungle of south-eastern Myanmar but this time it was a lot harder to get rid of it. After testing ...
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Drug-resistant malaria: the world's next big health crisis? -TRFN MIN SAW, Myanmar, Dec 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ka Lar Nar caught malaria for the sixth time when he was working away from home on his small farm in the jungle of south-eastern Myanmar but this time it was a lot harder to get rid of it.
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Survey: Teen marijuana use declines even as states legalize Marijuana use among teens declined this year even as two states, Colorado and Washington, legalized the drug for recreational use, a national survey released Tuesday found. University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future study, now in its 40th year, surveys ...
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More Teens Using E-Cigarettes Than Tobacco Cigarettes, Survey Finds For the first time, more teens are smoking e-cigarettes than tobacco cigarettes, according to a new survey of 40,000 to 50,000 students in the 8th, 10th and 12th grades. The annual University of Michigan "Monitoring the Future" report found that both alcohol ...
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It's OK to be old if you feel young, study suggests When it comes to longevity, feeling young may be more important than being young. So say a pair of researchers from University of College London and the International Longevity Centre-UK. They analyzed data on nearly 6,500 English adults and found that ...
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With Hospitals Under Stress, Tennessee's Governor Pursues Medicaid Expansion WASHINGTON — Under mounting pressure from financially strapped hospitals, Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee proposed on Monday an alternative plan for expanding Medicaid that he said would bring health coverage to tens of thousands more poor ...
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Here Is the Lie of the Year from PolitiFact Vaccine Research At Bavarian Nordic A/S Pharmaceuticals An employee uses a microscope during research in a laboratory used to detect contamination in employees' clothing at the Bavarian Nordic A/S biotechnology company, where the research into ...
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| Galapagos loses partner on inflammatory bowel drug BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian biotech group Galapagos said on Tuesday that its research partner Janssen Pharmaceutica, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, had pulled out of a program to develop a new drug to treat bowel disease. Galapagos said it had ...
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Justices let stand a ruling blocking an Arizona abortion law WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision temporarily blocking an Arizona law that limits the availability of medicinal, nonsurgical abortions. As is its custom when it denies review, the court gave no reasons for its action, which ...
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MTA will examine Metro-North train engineers for sleep apnea The MTA will soon start screening train engineers on the Metro-North line for a sleep disorder that caused a fatal derailment in the Bronx a year ago, officials said Monday. Medical staff will start screening engineers for sleep apnea in January.
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Study finds teens flocking to e-cigarettes E-cigarettes are usually made of metal parts combined with plastic or glass. They heat the liquid nicotine solution, creating vapor that quickly dissipates when exhaled. A new Montoring the Future survey says teens are flocking to e-cigarettes. (ASSOCIATED ...
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| Galapagos regains full rights to GPR84 inhibitor GLPG1205 MECHELEN, Belgium, Dec. 16, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Galapagos NV (Euronext: GLPG) announced today it has agreed with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV that Galapagos will regain full and unencumbered rights to the entire GPR84 program going ...
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Sierra Leone announces holiday ban, response surge Sierra Leone's government announced a ban on Christmas and New Years' parties and other festivities to curb the spread of Ebola and said it will launch a month-long response surge to fight the virus, which is still fueling intense illness, especially in the ...
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Indiegogo Launches (Nearly) Free Life&Event Fundraising Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo has launched Indiegogo Live, a new section that allows users to start a campaign aimed at raising money for someone facing unexpected family expenses, such as emergency medical bills. Unlike other similar platforms, ...
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Justices Let Abortion Decision Stand WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision temporarily blocking an Arizona law that limits the availability of medicinal, nonsurgical abortions. As is its custom when it denies review, the court gave no reasons for its action. The law ...
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New Test Detects Heart Disease Risk, Especially for Black Women A new test makes it easier for doctors to measure a fairly new indicator of heart disease risk — one that is especially helpful for African-American women. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the test Monday. It measures the inflammation caused ...
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Indiegogo Life lets you fund personal causes for free Indiegogo launched a standalone service Monday that lets users raise money for anything from medical expenses and tuition payments to vacations and parties — without charging them a fee. The Indiegogo Life platform caters to personal causes that directly ...
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Do patients mind if their healthcare data is shared? It depends Healthcare data may be valuable to researchers and companies, but patients' comfort levels about having their data shared may depend on the purpose, a new survey suggests. Using health data and information for research was more appropriate than for ...
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Whooping cough epidemic hits California, which is seeing most cases since 1940s Julietta Losoyo (right), a registered nurse at the San Diego Public Health Center, gives Derek Lucero a whooping cough injection while his father, Leonel, holds him. His brother, Iker, 2, looks on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 in San Diego. (The Associated Press).
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US Ebola Panic Vanishes Just as Money Is About to Flow Two months after the first U.S. Ebola patient died in Dallas, thousands of people have been screened at airports and tracked by health workers, and millions of dollars have been spent readying hospitals. And there's been just one new case diagnosed in ...
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Teen using e-cigarettes over real ones, survey says WASHINGTON – More teens are trying out e-cigarettes than the real thing, according to the government's annual drug use survey. Researchers were surprised at how many 8th, 10th and 12th graders reported using electronic cigarettes this year, even as ...
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Tennessee to Expand Medicaid as Republicans Adapt to Obamacare Tennessee has moved to the forefront of a new group of Republican-led states jockeying for hundreds of millions of dollars available under Obamacare for Medicaid expansions. Governor Bill Haslam, a Republican, announced today that the state would ...
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2014 was a bad year for mumps, a nearly forgotten virus A nearly forgotten virus has made a comeback. Mumps sickened nearly 1,100 Americans this year, causing outbreaks among college students and professional hockey players. Nearly twice as many Americans have developed mumps this year as in all of ...
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Study offers support for the notion of e-cigarettes as a gateway drug Do e-cigarettes lure teens into a world of vice that turns them into smokers of regular cigarettes? This is the big fear of anti-smoking activists, and new data from Hawaii suggest they may be right. A survey of 1,941 ninth- and 10th-graders from Oahu found that ...
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From Google To Congress, '60 Minutes' Explores The Rise Of Mindfulness While the world is getting more and more technologically connected, a lot of people seem to be feeling more mentally disconnected—from others, and from themselves. "I'm on mobile devices all day long," said Anderson Cooper on tonight's 60 Minutes (which ...
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Don't skip out on flu vaccine, officials advise This year's flu virus, in some cases, has changed, but infectious disease doctor Benjamin Chan's advice has not. In September, just after the virus made its debut for the season in New Hampshire, the state epidemiologist had a simple message: To protect ...
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Flu vaccine not perfect but still worth getting, health officials say COLUMBIA — Although the flu vaccination may not be quite as effective as expected, the health department is still urging people to get the shot. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory earlier this month about the potential for ...
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Teen Use of E-Cigarettes on The Rise, May Be A Gateway Drug E-cigarettes (Photo : Reuters) Public health officials are concerned that e-cigarettes may be recruiting a new generation of young cigarette smokers as the e-cigarette use among teenagers in the United States and Hawaii continue to rise, according to a recent ...
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Health Department urges health care workers to get vaccinated against the flu The Allegheny County Health Department is urging all health care workers in Allegheny County to get vaccinated against influenza. Vaccination against the flu will help to protect not only health care workers but also their patients. Health care workers include ...
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UnitedHealth Group To Pay Bundled Fee For Cancer Care Going further away from fee-for-service medicine, UnitedHealth Group UNH, the nation's largest health insurer, said it will pay the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center a "bundled payment" for head and neck cancer care. UnitedHealth Group's ...
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New Biotech Firm All Set To Find Treatment of Alzheimer, Parkinson and ALS Yumanity therapeutics declared to work on neurodegenerative disease. Currently, there are almost 50 million people in this world who suffers from multiple kind of neurodegenerative disease. The term neurodegenerative are used for several medical ...
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Flu season is here, getting worse, says county health official Flu is on the rise in King County and a top health official says vaccination is still the best way to prevent illness, despite a mismatch between this year's shots and the dominant virus. By JoNel Aleccia. Seattle Times health reporter. PREV of NEXT. "Flu season ...
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Yumanity Therapeutics launched to challenge neurodegenerative diseases Yumanity Therapeutics has officially been launched by Dr. Tony Coles, who is world-renowned in the biotech industry. The goal of the company is to challenge and defeat diseases that are debilitating and crippling for those who encounter them.
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| Do patients mind if their healthcare data is shared? It depends Reuters Health - Healthcare data may be valuable to researchers and companies, but patients' comfort levels about having their data shared may depend on the purpose, a new survey suggests. Using health data and information for research was more ...
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Curbing the cost of cancer care UT's M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, after a tuneup with the Harvard Business School, is launching a pilot program using bundled payments for all the care that neck and head cancer patients will receive in a year. It's a big break with fee-for-service medicine ...
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Gov. Bill Haslam unwraps Tennessee Medicaid expansion alternative Gov. Bill Haslam announces his proposal to expand Medicaid in Tennessee during a news conference at the state Capitol in Nashville on Monday. The Republican governor said he will call the state Legislature into special session to take up the proposal that ...
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Flu recovery can be difficult DO stay home from work or school so that you don't infect others and hinder your own recovery. DO take your recovery slowly and seriously. Just because you're fever free doesn't mean you are well. DON'T forget to drink and stay hydrated, even though you ...
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Sierra Leone's Ebola orphans are the forgotten victims of the crisis Many children living in remote parts of Sierra Leone have lost the adults they depended on at the hands of a virus that they don't understand. Photograph: Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images. John Momodu Kargbo in Makeni. Tuesday 16 December 2014 ...
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Feeling Younger Can Lead To Lower Death Rate For Older People WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Bernama) -- Feeling younger than their actual age might be good for older people, Xinhua news agency reported. A study published online Monday by US journal JAMA Internal Medicine found that older people who felt three or more ...
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First menstrual cycle age linked to heart disease risk London: A study of over a million women has shown that women who had their first menstrual cycle at age 10 or younger, or age 17 or older, may be at higher risk of developing heart disease, stroke, and complications of high blood pressure. Having the first ...
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Boy Struck by Lightning Is Home for Christmas A Texas boy who was struck by lightning while playing soccer three months ago is well enough to return home for the holidays. 1:04 | 12/15/14. More ABC News Videos | ABC World News. Coming up in the next {{countdown}} {{countdownlbl}}. Coming up next ...
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Thousands of skin, eye burns linked to indoor tanning Enter an indoor tanning booth today and you may find yourself with skin cancer decades down the road. But some painful consequences could be immediate. An estimated 1,957 indoor tanners landed in U.S. emergency rooms in 2012 after burning their skin ...
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Biotech Entrepreneur Tony Coles Takes Aim At Parkinson's And Alzheimer's 141201_Pure_Ostow-7918 Tony Coles, the chief executive who sold Onyx Pharmaceuticals to Amgen Amgen for $10.4 billion in 2013, is starting a new company that will use yeast to try and discover new treatments for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and ...
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People who feel younger may live longer Reuters Health - Everyone dies, but a new study says feeling sprightly might suggest a person has more time left than people who feel their age or older. Older people in the UK who felt at least three years younger than their chronological age were less likely ...
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Mixed Results With Longer Anti-HER2 Therapy Meeting Coverage. Mixed Results With Longer Anti-HER2 Therapy. Published: Dec 15, 2014. By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today. save. |. A. A. Post Test Complete · Take Posttest. Action Points. Note that this study was published as an ...
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Roche biotech unit submits skin cancer drug application to US regulator ZURICH Dec 15 (Reuters) - Genentech, U.S. biotech unit of Swiss drugmaker Roche holding, said on Monday it had filed a marketing application to U.S. regulators for the use of its experimental drug in combination with another medicine to treat an advanced ...
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Timing of First Period Tied to Women's Later Heart Risk: Study MONDAY, Dec. 15, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- The timing of a woman's first period may be linked to her later risk of heart disease, British researchers report. In a study of more than 1 million women, those who had their first period at age 10 or younger, or at ...
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How Obama Bungled Obamacare's Success Stories The president's health care plan has saved many lives. So why hasn't he told us about them? + READ ARTICLE. By now, there are thousands of people who can make Barack Obama and the Democrats' case for the Affordable Care Act. Across the nation, ...
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Mixed Results With Afinitor in Advanced Breast Cancer Meeting Coverage. Mixed Results With Afinitor in Advanced Breast Cancer. Published: Dec 15, 2014. By Ed Susman , Contributing Writer, MedPage Today. Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor, Perelman School of Medicine at the University ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Cuomo to sign ban on pets' tattoos, piercings ALBANY — You can pet them, but you can't pierce them. Gov. Cuomo on Monday will sign legislation outlawing the tattooing or piercing of pets, the Daily News has learned. "This is animal abuse, pure and simple," Cuomo said. "I'm proud to sign this ...
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