 | ||||||||
| health | ||||||||
| NEWS | ||||||||
A quarter of adults with sprained ankles were prescribed opioids in the ER A quarter of the adults who went to hospital emergency departments with sprained ankles were prescribed opioid painkillers, a new study shows, in another sign of how commonly physicians turn to narcotics even for minor injuries.
| ||||||||
CDC Surveillance Report Reveals Outbreak Numbers, But Not Consequences of Foodborne Illness The CDC Surveillance Report for Foodborne Disease Outbreaks from 2009 - 2005 was released in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report today.
| ||||||||
HIV-reduction targets looking increasingly like an unattainable dream The ambitious target of ending the AIDS epidemic within a generation is looking increasingly like an unattainable dream, with plans to scale-up treatment and prevention sputtering, and funding stagnating.
| ||||||||
MD Overdose Deaths Hit Record Numbers In 2017, Early 2018 BALTIMORE, MD - Opioid addiction continues to kill Marylanders at a record pace, with fentanyl driving the increase in overall overdoses in 2017 and in the first quarter of 2018, according to new statistics.
| ||||||||
USA Today investigation ranks states with the highest maternal death rates The United States is the "most dangerous place to give birth in the developed world," a USA Today investigation finds. Each year across the country, more than 50,000 mothers are severely injured during or after childbirth and 700 die.
| ||||||||
Why Is the US One of the 'Most Dangerous' Places in the Developed World to Give Birth? Hundreds of U.S. women die each year giving birth, and hospitals across the country aren't routinely following practices that would save women's lives during childbirth, according to a new USA Today investigation.
| ||||||||
Experimental Alzheimer's drug stirs hope to slow disease after early trials CHICAGO - Hopes are rising again for a drug to alter the course of Alzheimer's disease after decades of failures. An experimental therapy slowed mental decline by 30 percent in patients who got the highest dose in a mid-stage study, and it removed ...
| ||||||||
Russian worms frozen for nearly 42000 years alive and well, scientists say A pair of nematodes - roundworms - are apparently alive after they were frozen in permafrost for nearly 42,000 years. Russian scientists said the two prehistoric worms, out of a group of about 300, are moving and eating after they came back to life in ...
| ||||||||
Possible Measles Exposure At Logan Airport And Boston Restaurant BOSTON, MA - Health officials are warning anyone who visited Tasty Burger on Boylston Street on July 19 or Logan Airport on July 20 that they may have been exposed to the Measles.
| ||||||||
Health Officials Warn About Possible Measles Exposure BOSTON (AP) - Boston health officials are warning about possible exposure to measles. The city Public Health Commission said Friday two areas were potentially impacted by a recently confirmed case.
| ||||||||
CDC: backyard chickens are spreading salmonella to people WICHITA - If you're really loving your backyard chickens and all those fresh eggs, you might be giving your flock a little bit of extra attention - and some snuggles and kisses.
| ||||||||
The 'Scutoid' Is Geometry's Newest Shape, and It Could Be All Over Your Body Scientists have just defined a new shape called the scutoid (SCOO-toid) while studying epithelial cells, the building blocks of embryos that eventually end up forming our skin and lining our organs and blood vessels.
| ||||||||
Maryland hits record-high drug deaths, fueled by fentanyl BALTIMORE - Maryland, a state that already had one of the country's most punishing overdose mortality rates, notched a record-high number of drug deaths last year.
| ||||||||
Most Americans skeptical about gene editing A new survey from Pew Research Center has found that nearly half of the surveyed Americans believe that in the coming 50 years, nearly all genetic birth defects could be eliminated due to advances in gene editing.
| ||||||||
Is CBD legal? Does it even work? It's time to clear the haze of confusion surrounding the "miracle" ingredient CBD (cannabidiol) is basically the Meghan Markle of the wellness world: Newly minted supplement-shelf royalty, it's getting shout-outs absolutely everywhere right now, thanks to its everywoman appeal.
| ||||||||
Doctor Indicted On Nine Counts For Writing Illegal Opioid Prescriptions Tied To Two Deaths Officials with the Department of Justice charged a West Virginia doctor accused of recklessly prescribing opioids between 2013 and February 2018 that were linked to fatalities.
| ||||||||
Most Americans Support Gene Editing for Babies to Treat Diseases, Poll Finds The idea of using gene-editing technology to tweak a baby's DNA before birth has been the topic of fierce debate for years. But now, most Americans say using this technology on embryos would be acceptable under certain circumstances, according to a new ...
| ||||||||
Cuomo launches hepatitis C task force ALBANY - Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced the formation of task force to address a growing need for hepatitis C prevention and treatment in the state Friday.
| ||||||||
Officials link increase in hepatitis C cases in Illinois to growing injection drug use The number of reported cases of hepatitis C, a viral condition that can infect the liver, increased over the past decade in Illinois, state health officials said Friday.
| ||||||||
Americans Would Do Anything To Make Their Kids Smarter. Except Edit Their Genes. Scientists are inching closer to successful human applications of CRISPR-Cas9, a genome-editing technology that helps them easily find, delete, and replace genes in any living organism.
| ||||||||
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? This Cat Parasite Might Help You Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite found in cat poop, can influence behavioral changes in humans and other vertebrates. Next Article. --shares.
| ||||||||
Mutated strains of HIV in Saskatchewan causing illness quicker: study AMSTERDAM - Research suggests mutated strains of HIV circulating in Saskatchewan are leading to faster-developing AIDS-related illnesses among Indigenous people.
| ||||||||
How To Properly Apply Sunscreen To Beat A Burn, According To Dermatologists I have never, not once, in my entire 26 years of life, returned home from a day at the beach burn-free. You could say the sun and I, are just not friends.
| ||||||||
Indiana parents sue after girl with autism restrained in class The parents of a northern Indiana girl with autism are accusing a special education teacher of belting the 8-year-old into a homemade restraining chair in the classroom.
| ||||||||
August 10 Event – AIDS 2018: What Happened and What's Next? At 9:30 a.m. ET on Friday, August 10, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will hold a briefing to assess the major outcomes of the 2018 International AIDS ...
| ||||||||
What Is "Summer Penis"? Doctors Explain Everything You Need To Know, & Wow, It's So Weird Ah, sex. One of the most universal experiences in the world, it's also one of the most complicated. And as things in the bedroom seem to be constantly evolving, it's no surprise that there are new sex trends almost every day.
| ||||||||
Vaping more harmful than cigarettes — DOH By Minerva Newman and Larnie Bacalando. CEBU CITY - Vaping tripled the harm than smoking cigarette gives to smokers, the Department of Health (DOH) in Central Visayas said as it launched the "Smoking Ban Drive" this month.
| ||||||||
Birmingham leaders named to Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame The Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame has inducted 11 new members that can boast multiple accomplishments in the health field in the state.
| ||||||||
Miss Mpumalanga represents SA at World Aids conference MBOMBELA - The conference, with the theme "Breaking Barriers Building Bridges", will assist Hollenbach's efforts in fighting HIV/Aids in this province as the current Zazi - Know Your Strength HIV/Aids ambassador.
| ||||||||
Drug-user study to look at eliminating Hepatitis C virus A major new study involving drug users is to explore a way of eliminating the killer Hepatitis C virus. Hundreds of Scots will take part in the research led by Glasgow Caledonian and Bristol universities.
| ||||||||
Relay For Life marches on NEW ULM - Eden "Bliss" Kalk talked about how to battle cancer and appreciate what's really important in life in detail at the 23rd Annual Relay For Life of Brown County 2018 at the Brown County Fairgrounds July 27.
| ||||||||
"Deadly mosquito" or "living freshwater"? Organizations fighting disease often use catchy taglines such as "Which animal kills most people?," as the Gates Foundation did at its 2018 annual campaign against malaria (1).
| ||||||||
St. Regis Team Reigns Supreme at Sentebale Polo Cup Sentebale. In the African language of Sesotho it means "Forget-Me-Not," a favorite flower of late Princess Diana and a vow sworn by HRH The Duke of Sussex to the thousands of children infected with HIV each year in southern Africa.
| ||||||||
| You have received this email because you have subscribed to Google Alerts. |
 Receive this alert as RSS feed |
| Send Feedback |
No comments:
Post a Comment