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After 2 Years And 2500 Deaths, Guinea Is Ebola-Free For a country to be declared free of the virus, it must go 42 days without seeing a new infection. 12/29/2015 12:54 am ET. Michael McLaughlin Reporter, The Huffington Post.
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AU Praised for Aiding Liberia's Ebola Fight Acting Minister Shoniyin said the AU is regarded as one of Liberia's Ebola champions because it worked tirelessly to stamp out the virus.
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Gum disease linked to breast cancer, study finds THERE'S a link between gum disease and breast cancer for middle-aged and older women, according to a new study. The report, published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, found that women with gum disease are 14 percent ...
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How do hospitals determine if someone is brain dead? The rules for judging when a patient is brain dead vary widely from hospital to hospital, despite the existence of national standards created to ensure accuracy, a new study has found.
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US patients get higher radiation doses in some heart tests ... - Compared to patients in other countries, the typical U.S. patient is more often exposed to excessive radiation during myocardial perfusion imaging, a new study suggests.
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More than 90% of people who overdosed on prescription painkillers can still ... A pharmacist displays tablets of the prescription painkiller OxyContin. A new study finds that 91% of people who had a nonfatal overdose of opioid painkillers like OxyContin continue to get refills from a doctor.
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Even after OD'ing, many can get refills of opioids In 70 percent of the cases, the physician who prescribed opioid painkillers after the overdose was the same as the one who wrote the prescription before the overdose.
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Many continue to receive opioid prescriptions after overdose (Reuters Health) - Almost all people who overdose on prescription opioids continue to receive prescriptions for these painkillers, according to a new study.
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What constitutes brain death? Depends on which hospital you're in, study finds After 13-year-old Jahi McMath was declared brain dead following a tonsillectomy procedure, physicians asserted that the diagnosis of brain death was rarely wrong.
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Asthma epidemic in children levels off for most The "asthma epidemic" became a serious public health concern as more children were diagnosed with asthma in the last few decades, but those numbers may finally have plateaued for children overall, according to a new study.
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Studies give breast cancer survivors who have used... Breast cancer survivor Crystal Constanza Ross of Indiana Township says she suffered few side effects while on the hormone therapy tamoxifen but stopped taking it when she developed a blood clot.
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Wanted in China: Organ donors On her birthday this year, Hangzhou retiree Jiang Yaping, 60, signed hospital forms pledging to donate her corneas and vital organs after her death.
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Drug-resistant "super-gonorrhea" could be untreatable, doctors warn Gonorrhea could become untreatable in the U.K., England's top health official warns. There's concern in the U.S., too. British media report that the country's chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, has written to all general practice physicians and ...
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More Twins Are Born In The U.S. Now Than Ever Before The country's twin birth rate hit 33.9 twins per 1,000 births in 2014, up from 33.7 twins per 1,000 births in 2013, according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Clinton announces plan to battle Alzheimer's The ad features Keith Thompson, a New Hampshire librarian who tells the story of how he takes care of his 84-year-old mother with Alzheimer's disease - and how he relayed the story to Clinton when he met her.
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Zika Virus, a Mosquito-Borne Infection, May Threaten Brazil's Newborns A surge in the number of infants born with tiny brains has led Brazil's health ministry to warn pregnant women to take extreme measures to avoid mosquito bites, which may infect them with a recently arrived virus.
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Chipotle reopens Boston restaurant linked to norovirus outbreak Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc said it reopened its Boston restaurant, which was linked to a norovirus outbreak that sickened more than 130 people earlier this month.
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Precision Weight Loss Program with specific advice could be more effective for ... Weight reduction programs work differently for different people. However, soon weight loss techniques will be formulated depending upon the genetics of the person, according to a new study.
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New strain of 'super gonorrhea' puts disease at risk of becoming untreatable ... England's chief medical officer says that gonorrhea is at risk of becoming an untreatable disease. Dame Sally Davies wrote to all general practitioners and pharmacies to ensure the prescription of the correct drugs after a national public health alert ...
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Brazilian Women Warned Against Pregnancy After Virus Outbreak The outbreak of a mosquito-borne virus called Zika has prompted Brazilian officials to warn women against getting pregnant, CNN reports.
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House opioid proposal differs from governor's bill An influential lawmaker unveiled a House bill Monday night aimed at combating the deadly scourge of opioid abuse. Representative Elizabeth A. Malia, House chairwoman of the Joint Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse, revealed legislation ...
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Generosity won't fix our shortage of organs for transplants Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week we're talking about government compensation for organ donors.
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CardioBrief: Salt Restriction Harmful in HF? savesaved. by Larry Husten CardioBrief. Sodium restriction is a cornerstone of heart failure management, but many people would be surprised to learn that there is no good supporting evidence for the practice.
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Brazil, with more than 1.5 million dengue cases, approves Dengvaxia Brazil accounts for more than 70 percent of all the dengue fever cases reported in the Western hemisphere with 1.5 million of the 2.1 million total in 2015.
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World Action Needed to Prevent Widespread Antibiotic Resistance December 28, 2015 8:30 PM. Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928, we have used antibiotics against a host of infections. But now, doctors are finding that more and more bacteria are resistant to even the strongest antibiotics available.
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Samsung has an all-in-one health chip for wearables All the tracking and monitoring is done on-board without the need for external processing. Timothy J. Seppala , @timseppala. 9h ago in Wearables.
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The Average American Worker's Biggest Worry -- Is It Yours, Too? Workers worry that their savings won't be enough to cover their healthcare costs in retirement. Todd Campbell. (TMFEBCapital).
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Way more Americans are drinking themselves to death. Here's why. According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after controlling for age, the alcohol-induced death rate reached 8.5 per 100,000 people in 2014, up from 7.1 in 1999 and 7 in 2006.
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Congress raises bipartisan concern over avian flu vaccine stock Washington - Leading members of a bipartisan House committee are questioning the efficacy of the US Health Department's influenza pandemic preparedness and response plan.
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Recognizing The Symptoms Of Sudden Cardiac Arrest And Getting Medical Help PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Sudden cardiac arrest may not be as sudden as doctors have thought with at least half of the patients having at least some warning signs in the weeks before.
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U.S. Deaths from Alcohol Hit Record Levels Just in time for New Year's Eve, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have put a damper on your party with the news that alcohol-related deaths have climbed 37% since 2002.
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State-Level Brawls Over Medicaid Reflect Wider War in GOP John Thune of South Dakota, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, voted earlier this month to repeal major provisions of the Affordable Care Act and to end its expansion of Medicaid, arguing that the health law was "unpopular and unaffordable.
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Health: Many people ignore warning signs of cardiac arrest long before event File-This Jan. 4, 2008 file photo shows Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Sudden cardiac arrest may not always be so sudden: New research shows a lot of people ignore potentially life-saving warning signs in the days and weeks before they ...
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Despite innovations in treatment, HIV rates still high, including in Baton ... Scientific advances for HIV/AIDS have exploded in recent years, and doctors have new ways both to treat people who already have the disease and to prevent others from acquiring it.
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Gay Men Will Be Able To Donate Blood The nation's three-decade-old ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men was formally lifted Monday, but major restrictions will continue to limit who can give blood.
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White Plains native and Nobel-winner dies at 74 Dr. Alfred Goodman Gilman, a White Plains native who won a Nobel Prize for his breakthrough research into the inner workings of cells and co-founded Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, died last week in Dallas.
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