The brains of dead pigs have been somewhat revived by scientists hours after the animals were killed in a slaughterhouse. The Yale University research team is careful to say that none of the brains regained the kind of organized electrical activity associated ...
In 2017, Susan learned that she carries a genetic mutation that may elevate her lifetime risk of developing breast cancer to 72 percent. Her doctor explained that individuals who have this mutation in the BRCA2 gene have choices in treatment. Some people ...
Ten newborns with the rare genetic disorder known as bubble boy disease were cured with gene therapy, researchers revealed Wednesday. The treatment appears to have completely rid the babies of their immune disorder with no side effects or ...
Sometimes rare diseases can let scientists pioneer bold new ideas. That's been the case with a condition that strikes fewer than 100 babies a year in the United States. These infants are born without a functioning immune system. The disease is called severe ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's Department of Health defended its mandatory measles vaccination order in a state court on Thursday after a group of anonymous Brooklyn parents sued, arguing that the order was unconstitutional. FILE PHOTO: ...
(CNN) The Santa Clara County, California, health department said a person with measles visited Google's headquarters in Silicon Valley, which is in their county. The adult is a resident of San Mateo County. As of April 10, California has reported 21 cases of ...
They were born without a working germ-fighting system, every infection a threat to their lives. Now 10 babies with "bubble boy disease" have had it fixed by a gene therapy made from one of the immune system's worst enemies — HIV, the virus that causes ...
The man who is believed to have brought the ongoing measles outbreak to Michigan thought he was immune to the disease, according to a doctor who spoke with him. The man, who remains unidentified but is believed to be "patient zero" in Michigan, ...
US scientists have partially revived pig brains four hours after the animals were slaughtered. The findings could fuel debate about the barrier between life and death, and provide a new way of researching diseases like Alzheimer's. The study showed the ...
William Peranteau is the guy parents call when they've received the kind of bad news that sinks stomachs and wrenches hearts. Sometimes it's a shadow on an ultrasound or a few base pairs out of place on a prenatal genetic test, revealing that an unborn ...
You got a kitten. Congratulations! You've joined the club of more than 36 million Americans with pet cats. Now, will your kitty be an indoor cat or an outdoor cat? You may want to keep it indoors, suggests a study published Tuesday in Biology Letters.
Monotherapy with UB-421 may suppress human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) for up to 4 months in infected patients undergoing a short-term antiretroviral therapy (ART) pause, according to a study published online today in the New England Journal of ...
A baby in Texas was born without skin on much of his body, according to news reports. The boy, Ja'bari Gray, was born Jan. 1 in San Antonio and weighed only 3 lbs., according to the San Antonio Express-News. He lacks skin on much of his body, with the ...
A man from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York, traveled to Michigan without knowing he was infected with measles — a highly contagious respiratory infection that has infected more than 500 people in the U.S. so far this year.
Sixty medical professionals in five states, including doctors who allegedly traded sex for prescriptions, were charged for participating in the illegal prescribing of more than 32 million opioids and other dangerous narcotics, federal prosecutors announced ...
Maryland health officials confirmed Wednesday that a third person contracted measles in the Pikesville area of the state this month. The latest person to contract the disease is not connected to the previous two patients who had "household contact" with their ...
Stephanie Spoor lived with lupus for three decades. But after suffering heart failure and becoming infected with a recent outbreak of a deadly fungus, she survived less than two months. Spoor, of Crystal Lake, died in February at 64 while awaiting a lung ...
Advanced pancreatic cancer is often symptomless, leading to late diagnosis only after metastases have spread throughout the body. Additionally, tumor cells are encased in a "protective shield," a microenvironment conferring resistance to many cancer ...
Engineering bacteria to intelligently sense and respond to disease states, from infections to cancer, has become a promising focus of synthetic biology. Rapid advances in genetic engineering tools have enabled researchers to "program" cells to perform ...
The New York City Board of Health voted unanimously Wednesday to extend an order for mandatory measles-mumps-rubella vaccinations and fines for noncompliance in certain ZIP Codes in Brooklyn, where a measles outbreak began last fall in the ...
Researchers are developing new ways to mine growing stores of genetic data to predict risk of disease. The latest such tool, which assesses the risk for obesity, illustrates both the promise and the limitations of this emerging area of research. In a paper ...
HIV treatment has come a long way since the early days of the epidemic. Patients can now take various combinations of dozens of medications keep the virus under control and halt their disease from decimating their immune systems and leading to more ...
An NHS target to reduce the number of people with learning disabilities being treated in long-stay hospitals has been missed, resulting in more than 2,200 remaining in-patients in England. Charities say they are at risk of abuse and neglect in hospital units ...
(CNN) Eight people in several states have been hospitalized with listeria infections, including one person who died, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The infections of the bacterium listeria monocytogenes have been reported in Michigan, ...
(Reuters Health) - Smokers may find cigarettes easier to resist when they smell things they enjoy like peppermint or chocolate, a small study suggests. Most adult smokers say they want to quit, and many try. But about half of smokers who attempt to stop ...
Hello and happy hump day, readers. I'd like to preface this by saying, we live in interesting times. Times of gene editing and cancer immunotherapy, pictures of black holes 55 million light years out, and, apparently, zombie pig brains. Yale researchers say ...
A breast cancer cell is like a house with three locks on the front door. Keys, or receptors, allow drugs to unlock the door and kill the cell. However, in triple-negative breast cancer, these keys are absent, thereby resulting in few options for drug therapy, until ...
Around four million people in the UK carry genetic variants that protect them from obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease, suggests new research from the University of Cambridge. The team say the discovery could lead to the development of new drugs ...
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, April 17, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Folks start forgetting things as they get older, like where they put their car keys or what they had for breakfast. But their memories might get a boost ...
THURSDAY, April 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A listeria outbreak that has sickened eight, including one death, has now been linked to deli meats and cheeses sold at stores in four states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said ...
An Israeli flight attendant is in a coma after contracting measles, Israeli officials say. The 43 year-old woman, who works as a flight attendant for El Al, Israel's national airline, was hospitalized in Tel Aviv at the end of March. Israeli Health Ministry reported there ...
About one in eight women in the United States will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. The vast majority of these cancers rely on the hormone estrogen to grow. Estrogen-receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer tumors are frequently treated with the drug ...
The novel antiplatelet agent ACT017 confers reduced risk for bleeding and may be a safe and effective alternative for patients with stroke, according to early findings published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. Christine Voors-Pette, MD, ...
WEDNESDAY, April 17, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Folks start forgetting things as they get older, like where they put their car keys or what they had for breakfast. But their memories might get a boost from an electromagnetic device that gives the brain a helpful ...
By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, April 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- When you eat during the day could influence your chances of surviving a heart attack, a new study finds. Specifically, skipping breakfast and eating dinner ...
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When Withings introduced pulse wave velocity (PWV) measurements on its flagship scale, it offered customers an indicator of their cardiovascular health. In addition to more standard calculations, like weight and body mass index, the Body Cardio scale used ...
By Dennis Thompson. HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, April 17, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The death of brain cells may not be as sudden, or as irreversible, as previously believed. Four hours after a pig's death, Yale scientists restored circulation and ...
By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, April 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say an experimental stroke drug prevented blood clots without the typical side effect of blood thinners: increased bleeding risk. Bleeding is a ...
THURSDAY, April 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- When you eat during the day could influence your chances of surviving a heart attack, a new study finds. Specifically, skipping breakfast and eating dinner late in the evening were associated with poorer ...
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Public health officials in Israel are urging crew members on national air carriers to ensure that they have received the proper dosage of the measles vaccine after a flight attendant contracted the deadly disease, possibly in New York. Officials with Israel's ...
Sophia Antipolis, 18 April 2019: People who skip breakfast and eat dinner near bedtime have worse outcomes after a heart attack. That's the finding of research published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European ...
Celebrities and public figures have recently been more open about mental health conditions they deal with. This is a positive sign of shrinking stigma around mental illness, and it also helps in reducing it. The most recent in this line was Ariana Grande's ...
High-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) temporarily increased activity in the hippocampal-cortical network and improved memory in cognitively normal older adults, a small pilot study showed. Non-invasive brain stimulation increased fMRI ...
A University of Cambridge-led research team has shown how a prescription drug that is used to treat high blood pressure may represent a promising candidate for treating disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and Huntington's disease ...
Measles, mumps and rubella vaccines are seen at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y., Wednesday, March 27, 2019. The county has seen a measles outbreak that has infected more than 150 people since last fall. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig).
The next time you think about passing your preschooler a smartphone or tablet at the dinner table to keep them entertained, you might want to think twice. A new study out of the University of Alberta has found that by the age of 5, children who spent two hours ...
Researchers have designed a new type of adhesive patch that can be placed directly on the heart and may one day help to reduce the stretching of heart muscle that often occurs after a heart attack. The patch, made from a water-based hydrogel material, was ...
BLAIRSTOWN, NJ — A Blairstown woman was attacked by a rabid gray fox over the weekend, Blairstown animal control officer Scott Hendricks said. The woman was bitten twice by the fox after the fox killed one of the cats on her Golden Chain Road farm, ...
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