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5 myths surrounding vaccines -- and the reality (CNN) With dozens of measles cases popping up in the United States, Americans are buzzing about vaccines once more -- and some old fearful myths are resurfacing.
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Vaccines are a matter of fact Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon, is the multiple Emmy-award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN. The views expressed are his own.
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What Would It Take for Measles to Return Permanently to the US Measles was declared "eliminated" from the U.S. 15 years ago by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but recent outbreaks have health experts concerned that the disease could make a more permanent return to the U.S.
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Britain votes to allow world's first 'three-parent' IVF babies Britain voted on Tuesday to become the first country to allow a "three-parent" IVF technique which doctors say will prevent some inherited incurable diseases but which critics see as a step towards creating designer babies.
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How to Politely Ask People About Their Vaccinations The measles outbreak has some parents of young children wondering how to ask whether people around their family have been vaccinated against the contagious disease.
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Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Cut in Half savesaved; ">. by Parker Brown Staff Writer, MedPage Today. The number of people exposed to secondhand smoke dropped by half over the last decade, but one in four nonsmokers, or some 58 million people, are still exposed, a CDC report said today.
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UK moves toward making babies from DNA of 3 people CANTERBURY, England - Members of Parliament voted Tuesday to allow the creation of human embryos from the DNA of three people to try to eradicate a type of genetic disease that has caused the deaths of thousands of babies.
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FDA's Approval Of Palbociclib, A Novel Drug, Expands Treatment Options In ... Yesterday the FDA granted accelerated approval to Pfizer's palbociclib (Ibrance), a pill for use in patients with metastatic breast cancer.
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Answers about the measles Measles is an extremely contagious respiratory infection caused by a virus. Once common in the United States, it was eliminated here in 2000 but is resurgent today, mostly because of the growing number of people who are refusing to vaccinate their children ...
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Noncommunicable Disease - An Emerging Global Health Crisis Over the course of the last 30 years, I have watched women's cancers go from being a disease that only affects affluent countries to being a global problem.
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'Half of UK people' will get cancer One in two people in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, analysis suggests. Cancer Research UK said this estimate, using a new calculation method, replaced a forecast of more than one in three people developing the disease.
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Five Things to Know About Measles 1. Should I worry my children will get measles? If they have been vaccinated, the chances are low. Two doses of vaccine, most commonly given as the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) combination, is 97% effective at preventing measles, says the U.S.
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British Lawmakers Approve 'Three-Parent' In-Vitro Fertilization LONDON—The U.K. looks set to become the first country to allow in-vitro fertilization using DNA from three people after British lawmakers on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of the technique.
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RPT-Blood from Ebola survivors could help spur new disease treatments (Repeating to additional subscribers without any changes to text). By Julie Steenhuysen. CHICAGO Feb 4 (Reuters) - After successfully treating four Ebola patients last year, Emory University in Atlanta is now leading a government-funded project that will use ...
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Britain Set to Approve Technique to Create Babies From 3 People LONDON - Despite warnings that a new ethical threshold was being crossed, British lawmakers on Tuesday voted to allow the in vitro creation of babies using the DNA of three people, a procedure that could prevent the inheritance of genetic diseases.
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Study: Many Herbal Supplements Aren't What the Label Says ALBANY, N.Y. - Bottles of Walmart-brand echinacea, an herb said to ward off colds, were found to contain no echinacea at all. GNC-brand bottles of St. John's wort, touted as a cure for depression, held rice, garlic and a tropical houseplant, but not a trace of ...
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Breast Cancer Tests Betray 'Precision Medicine' Branding Yes, President Obama's new $215 million Precision Medicine Initiative supports important science, but it also bolsters biotech branding in a way the science doesn't always support.
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Living With Heart Disease As a 26-year-old woman with a type-A personality, being diagnosed with heart disease just before moving into my college campus and trying to attain financial stability and independence like every other fairly recent college grad, hasn't exactly been easy.
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UK lawmakers approve '3-parent babies' law London (CNN) Lawmakers on Tuesday voted in favor of a law that sets the stage for the United Kingdom to be the first country in the world to allow a pioneering in vitro fertilization technique using DNA from three people.
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Measles Vaccine Debate Shifts Tone Top Republican lawmakers on Tuesday strongly backed routine vaccination of children against deadly diseases, marking a shift in the political debate that has erupted around a multistate measles outbreak.
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Secondhand-Smoke Exposure Falls, Unevenly Half as many American nonsmokers are exposed to secondhand smoke now as a decade ago, but federal researchers remain concerned about high exposure among black nonsmokers, especially children, and people living below the poverty level.
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Secondhand Smoke Exposure Drops, CDC Reports Americans' exposure to secondhand smoke declined by half over the past decade, federal health authorities reported Tuesday, as states and municipalities banned smoking in bars, restaurants and offices, and fewer Americans smoked inside their homes.
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Roche says study of lymphoma drug shows significant benefit ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche said on Wednesday a late-stage study of its treatment for slow-growing, or indolent, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma showed significant benefit and met its primary endpoint early.
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How much sleep do you need? An expert panel releases its recommendations. Sleep is glorious and many of us feel like we aren't getting enough of it. Well, now you have a chart to consult! Just turn to the National Sleep Foundation's newly-released set of recommended sleep duration for various points of life, numbers that were ...
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4 big retailers accused of selling herbal formulas containing no herbs New York's attorney general told four major retailers to stop selling some of their store-brand herbal supplements, saying they contained ingredients not listed on their labels and could expose some consumers to serious health risks.
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Lung cancer a top killer of women in developed countries Lung cancer is by far one of the most serious diagnoses a person can receive, and it accounts for a huge number of cancer-related deaths worldwide.
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For Teens, Falling Asleep Gets Harder With More Screen Time -- Even If It's ... By: Laura Geggel Published: 02/03/2015 02:57 AM EST on LiveScience. Teenagers who while away the hours on an electronic device -- whether it's a computer, cell phone, tablet or TV -- tend to have more problems with sleeping at night, a new study finds.
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What Travelers Need to Know About Measles More than a hundred people across 14 states have come down with the measles, many of them sickened as a result of an outbreak in December at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif.
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Measles Q&A: A primer, and the debate over vaccines The measles outbreak has triggered a debate over the value of vaccines. A small but vocal group of activists argue that vaccines are harmful to children, despite the scientific community's overwhelming insistence and evidence that they're safe and valuable ...
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Measles outbreak: The loopholes in Canada's vaccination laws Publicly funded immunization programs continue to be stricken by lower-than-recommended rates of uptake among some Canadian populations, despite potentially saving hundreds of thousands of young lives a year.
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Parents with doubts about vaccinations face backlash from pediatricians, peers The letter arrived in the midst of a growing furor about the country's worst measles outbreak in years. Cindy Shay, a Maryland health-care lawyer, had been taking her children to Bayside Pediatrics in Annapolis for a decade when her doctor wrote last month ...
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Teens who use screens more sleep less New study shows a clear link between increased use of electronic devices during the day and less sleep at night - but what's causing it?
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British lawmakers vote to allow three-parent babies Britain's House of Commons voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to allow babies to be created using the DNA of three people in an effort to prevent potentially fatal diseases.
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US FDA approves Pfizer's high profile breast cancer drug Feb 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Pfizer Inc's Ibrance, a potential new standard of care for advanced breast cancer, in a regulatory decision that came more than two months earlier than expected.
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Hubbub over flu, measles vaccines spreads to US Capitol In a congressional hearing Tuesday, top health officials tried to explain how measles could have made such a comeback, and lawmakers asked why officials didn't take steps to produce a better flu vaccine when it became clear this year's version wasn't as ...
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U.K. may make babies from DNA of 3 people Rachel Kean, an activist for the muscular dystrophy campaign, was pleased by the House of Commons vote Tuesday in support of creating babies from the DNA of three people.
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Lawmakers Vote to Legalize So-Called 'Three-Person Babies' in the UK British parliamentarians have voted in favor of legalizing a form of IVF that would create babies from the biological material of three individual people.
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UK moves toward making babies from DNA of 3 people FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2008 file photo, a scientist works during an IVF process. British lawmakers will vote Tuesday Feb. 3, 2015, on whether to allow scientists to use controversial techniques to create babies from the DNA of three people to prevent children ...
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Secondhand smoke exposure falls but still affects 1 in 4 nonsmokers Exposure to secondhand smoke in the US has dropped by half between 1999 and 2012. However, 1 in 4 nonsmokers are still exposed to deadly secondhand smoke, according to a new study.
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Seattle gets a marijuana vending machine SEATTLE - Seattle residents can now purchase cannabis the same way they buy soda and snacks - right out of a vending machine. Well, maybe not quite the same.
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Study links a healthy diet to lower risk of COPD Smoking is the primary cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the US, accounting for 80-90% of all cases. For the remaining 10-20%, it is believed exposure to air pollution, secondhand smoke and genetic factors are involved.
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Cease-And-Desist Orders Hit Walmart, Walgreens And Others For Herbal ... Four large retailers were ordered yesterday by the New York State Attorney General's Office to immediately stop selling their store brands of herbal dietary supplements due to allegedly mislabeled or adulterated product content.
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A Marijuana First: Pot Vending Machines Dispense Weed Weed history is being made in Seattle: the first vending machines to dispense marijuana flower buds debuted Tuesday. The machines, called ZaZZZ, are being placed in medical pot dispensaries, which helps to verify customer's age and identity since medical ...
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Daily heart pill? One in three 'would prefer shorter life' Should all older people take a daily pill to prevent heart attacks ? It is an enduring question, even though the Food and Drug Administration currently says that a daily aspirin , for example, is not for everyone.
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1 in 5 Younger Diabetics Lacks Good Medical Care TUESDAY, Feb. 3, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- One in every five young American adults with diabetes hasn't seen a doctor in the past 6 months, a new government report indicates.
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This is how long your good night's rest should be, says the National Sleep ... A "good night's sleep" isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon, acknowledges the National Sleep Foundation. The organization has conducted a "scientifically rigorous update" to its sleep guidelines for different age groups, adding new sleep categories and ...
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FDA approves breast cancer drug from Pfizer WASHINGTON - Federal health regulators have approved a new medicine from Pfizer Inc. to treat postmenopausal women with a certain type of advanced breast cancer who have not previously taken other drugs.
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Health Highlights: Feb. 3, 2015 President Barack Obama wants Medicare to muscle its way into getting lower prices for certain types of drugs. In his $1.1 trillion health care budget, Obama asked Congress to give Medicare the power to negotiate on behalf of its beneficiaries for "specialty" ...
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Pfizer breast cancer drug gets early FDA approval WASHINGTON Federal health regulators on Tuesday approved a highly anticipated medicine from Pfizer Inc. to treat postmenopausal women with a certain type of advanced breast cancer who have not already taken other drugs.
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Britain takes first step to allow 3-parent babies LONDON: UK is set to become the first country to introduce laws to allow the creation of babies from three people. In an historic move, MPs have voted in favour of the creation of babies with DNA from two women and one man.
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