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Breast Biopsies Leave Room for Doubt, Study Finds Breast biopsies are good at telling the difference between healthy tissue and cancer, but less reliable for identifying more subtle abnormalities, a new study finds.
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Guinea Ebola cases rise, three doctors infected CONAKRY/DAKAR (Reuters) - Guinea has suffered a setback in its fight against Ebola with a rash of new cases, including three doctors infected by the virus, with officials blaming weak surveillance and a failure to follow safety procedures.
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Dementia drug research aided by $100 million venture capital fund LONDON (Reuters) - The world's first venture capital fund dedicated to finding new ways to prevent and treat dementia has raised $100 million with the backing of the British government and several of the world's leading drugmakers.
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US Ebola patient now in critical condition: NIH WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An American being treated for Ebola was in critical condition Monday, the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Maryland said.
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Half a million babies die each year in unhygienic hospitals LONDON (Reuters) - Over a third of hospitals and clinics in developing countries have nowhere for staff or patients to wash with soap, and almost 40 percent have no source of water, according to a WHO-backed international review published on Tuesday.
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Coke a Good Snack? Health Experts Who Work With Coke Say So Coca-Cola is working with fitness and nutrition experts who suggest its soda as a treat at a time when the world's biggest beverage maker is being blamed for helping to fuel obesity rates.
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Listeriosis Not Cause of Kansas Deaths: Officials March 16, 2015 -- A foodborne illness linked to ice cream products may have contributed to the deaths of three hospital patients in Kansas since late 2013, but did not cause the deaths, according to health officials.
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US Ebola patient now in 'critical' condition: NIH WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The condition of the American Ebola patient being treated at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Maryland has worsened from serious to critical, NIH said in a statement on Monday.
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Poll: Parents may share too much about tots on social media A father holding his baby girl and uses a laptop. A newly-released University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital poll reveals that nearly 70% of parents use social media to get advice from other parents.
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Study links Disneyland measles outbreak to low vaccination rates Although epidemiologists have not yet identified the person who brought measles to Disneyland, triggering an international outbreak, researchers now say that parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids are probably to blame.
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A Requiem For Routine Clot Removal During Heart Attacks Using a stent to open a blocked coronary artery is the treatment of choice in the early period of a heart attack (myocardial infarction).
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Aspirin users with common genes may get less colon cancer CHICAGO - Researchers have identified common genetic traits that may explain how aspirin can help protect against colon cancer. It's too soon to recommend aspirin for colon cancer prevention and the needed genetic tests aren't available outside of ...
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Doctors treating patient with Ebola at NIH downgrade condition to critical Doctors treating an American health-care worker who was transported to the National Institutes of Health last week after being infected with Ebola have downgraded the patient's condition from serious to critical.
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Is There Really A Link Between Diet Soda And Belly Fat? Artificial sweeteners - and their most popular protégé, diet soda - haven't exactly been the nutritional godsends they were supposed to be.
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Hepatitis C Drugs Will 'Strain Budgets': Study MONDAY, March 16, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- New hepatitis C drugs promise cure rates above 90 percent, but could prove to be budget-busters for public and private health insurers, a new analysis finds.
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Esperion Therapeutics Announces Positive Top-Line Phase 2b Results for ETC ... Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESPR), an emerging pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing first-in-class, oral low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-cholesterol) lowering therapies for the treatment of ...
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Half a million babies die each year in unhygienic hospitals Over a third of hospitals and clinics in developing countries have nowhere for staff or patients to wash with soap, and almost 40 percent have no source of water, according to a WHO-backed international review published on Tuesday.
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Critical Reports Mount On Hepatitis C Pill Costs The staggering costs of hepatitis C pills are the subject of two new medical journal reports pointing out that employers, insurers and the U.S.
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FDA panel recommends unblinding study after Imbruvica shows clear benefit (Reuters) - An independent panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended unblinding a late-stage study testing Pharmacyclics Inc and Johnson & Johnson's Imbruvica, after the treatment was successful in treating two types of cancer in ...
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Pharmacyclics cancer drug successful as combination therapy - independent ... March 16 (Reuters) - An independent panel recommended unblinding a late-stage study testing Pharmacyclics Inc and Johnson & Johnson's Imbruvica, after the treatment was successful against two similar forms of cancer in combination with other drugs.
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UPDATE 1-Esperion cholesterol drug succeeds mid-stage study (Adds details, share movement). March 17 (Reuters) - Esperion Therapeutics Inc said its experimental drug showed greater reductions in cholesterol levels in patients on statins, compared with a placebo, in a mid-stage study.
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Esperion cholesterol drug succeeds mid-stage study March 17 (Reuters) - Esperion Therapeutics Inc said its experimental drug showed greater reductions in cholesterol levels in patients on statins, compared with a placebo, in a mid-stage study.
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American worker who contracted Ebola in Africa now in critical condition at DC ... WASHINGTON - An American health care worker who contracted Ebola while volunteering in a Sierra Leone treatment unit has been downgraded to critical condition at the National Institutes of Health, doctors said Monday.
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Social Media Campaign Reunites Man With Childhood Nurse Gary Bentley had open heart surgery when he was only 10 years old. But it's not the pain, or even the fear he recalls from that hospital stay in 1973.
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France Aims to Criminalize Advertising With Anorexic Models France's health minister says she supports plans to criminalize the use of advertising with anorexic models in France. The measure would put France, a world capital of fashion, with countries like Israel and Spain that are cracking down on the glorification of ...
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Nebraska Facility Prepares For New Ebola Patient Dr. Phil Smith, of the Biocontainment Unit at the University of Nebraska explains the procedures for treating an American health car provider who was exposed to Ebola while working in Sierra Leone.
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Condition of American healthcare worker with Ebola worsens The condition of an American healthcare worker being treated for Ebola at the National Institutes of Health has worsened, officials announced Monday.
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UK, drugmakers establish $100M Alzheimer's venture fund Major drugmakers, the British government and a top Alzheimer's research charity are pooling more than $100 million to create a global fund to accelerate efforts to find a treatment or even a cure for the mind-robbing disease within a decade.
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UN: Ebola Not Over Until Cases Reach Zero GENEVA—. The United Nations Children's Fund warns the Ebola epidemic will continue to devastate the lives of children and their communities in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea as long as one case of this deadly disease remains.
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Big Pharma backs new $100m dementia venture fund A group of large major drug companies has backed a new UK-led venture capital fund dedicated to dementia research. GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Lilly and Biogen have all committed to invest in the fund, alongside charity Alzheimer's ...
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| Manual Clot Removal After Heart Attack May Not Help, Could Harm MONDAY, March 16, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- A new study calls into question the value of removing blood clots from a patient's heart arteries during angioplasty, a procedure to open blocked arteries.
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4-year-old girl battling cancer whose dying wish to meet Taylor Swift came true ... The little girl who captivated social media with her final wish to dance with Taylor Swift died on Sunday after a 10-month battle with brain cancer.
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All birds in Amethi's outbreak area culled All sick birds in Amethi were culled here on Monday in wake of the current avian flu outbreak. Surveillance and mapping of diseased birds in places around the outbreak area would be the focus now.
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4-year-old who wanted to "shake off" cancer with Taylor Swift dies A four-year-old girl who wanted to wanted to "shake off" cancer and got her final wish by video chatting with star Taylor Swift, died Sunday in San Antonio.
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Will the rise of 'over-sharenting' mean the end of privacy for our children? Your toddler vomited in the car on your way to the dentist. Frazzled, you post a status on Facebook about the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day.
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Environmental authorities say medical waste found in Arkansas River in eastern ... PAWNEE, Okla. - The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality says medical waste including used vials and syringes has been found in the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma.
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Loneliness, isolation as dangerous as weight, study says In this July 17, 2014 photo, Carolyn Allen, left, recounts how she fell in the bathtub and was helped by roommate Marcia Rosenfeld, right, who owns the Brooklyn, New York apartment where Allen lives.
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American With Ebola Now in Critical Condition MONDAY, March 16, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- The condition of an unidentified American health care worker infected with Ebola in West Africa has been downgraded from serious to critical, doctors at the U.S.
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ACC: Weight Loss Might Also Shed Afib savesaved. ▷. video-image. Loading the player... Anne B. Curtis, MD | For more exclusive On the Scene video at ACC.15, please visit: bit.
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| Vitamin D Won't Help Fight High Blood Pressure, Researchers Say MONDAY, March 16, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Vitamin D may help the body in many ways, but a new data review suggests it won't do much to lower high blood pressure.
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Implanted heart valve safe for low-risk patients: Danish study (Reuters) - A minimally invasive procedure that allows doctors to implant a new heart valve supplying blood to the body is safe for low-risk patients, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology meeting in San Diego.
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France considers ban on ultra-skinny models from catwalks The French government on Monday backed parliamentary plans to introduce fines and prison sentences on anyone employing skinny, undernourished fashion models or who "glorify anorexia".
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Fresh blood no better for transfusions in very ill patients: study TORONTO -- A new study suggests freshly donated blood is not better than older blood when it is transfused into severely ill patients.
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'Super-skinny' models may be banned in France France is inching closer to a ban on the use of skinny models, a trend which one leading MP has branded the 'glorification of anorexia'.
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Video shows teenager and 5-year-old brother being beaten by another girl in ... A disturbing video has been making the rounds online showing the savage beating of a teenage girl and her baby brother at the hands of another teen in an Indianapolis park over the weekned.
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GlaxoSmithKline and J&J back a $100M new Alzheimer's R&D project GlaxoSmithKline ($GSK), Johnson & Johnson ($JNJ) and a group of industry titans are helping kick off a U.K. government-led fund designed to spotlight new approaches to dementia and Alzheimer's disease, investing in a $100 million effort to bankroll ...
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What is the global economic burden of type 2 diabetes? Around 382 people worldwide have diabetes. By 2035, this figure is estimated to rise to 592 million, with type 2 diabetes accounting for around 90% of all cases.
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Disneyland measles outbreak linked to low vaccination rates The blame started being assigned almost as soon as measles struck Orange County this winter. Public health experts and frustrated, pro-vaccine parents pointed fingers at those who refused, delayed, neglected or simply forgot to get their children the shots, ...
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New cholesterol-lowering drug evolocumab 'halves the risk of a heart attack' A new type of cholesterol-lowering drug may halve the risk of a heart attack or stroke, new research suggests. People taking the experimental drug for high cholesterol were half as likely to die or suffer a heart attack or stroke as those taking conventional ...
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Diabetes is 'epidemic' with 400 million sufferers worldwide 'It is a chronic disease that has spread widely in recent decades - not only in high-income countries, but also in many populous low and middle-income countries such as India and China.
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