The former Act Up campaigner is now an epidemiologist — and MacArthur grantee — searching for new ways to halt epidemics. Image. Gregg Gonsalves, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health. "I wanted to marry activism to science.
When Theresa Ward had her first child 14 years ago, the Pittsburgh mom followed the pediatrician's recommendations and fully vaccinated her son on schedule. But when the boy turned 3, Ward began to worry about risks associated with vaccines, like fever ...
Most people with dementia have a number of brain abnormalities, not just Alzheimer's disease. The finding is forcing scientists to rethink the search for treatments. Image. A light micrograph of brain tissue of a person with Alzheimer's disease, which shows the ...
It's an unfortunate fact of life — as we age, we tend to become more forgetful. Aging brains struggle especially with working memory. Called the workbench of the mind, working memory allows us to store useful bits of information for a few seconds, and use that ...
Two new health initiatives are set to be rolled out in the fight against cancer. Boys aged 12-13 in Northern Ireland are to be offered a vaccine to protect them against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)-related cancers. A better bowel cancer detection test is also ...
(CNN) The percentage of boys who start having sex at a young age can vary based on factors such as where they live and their mothers' education level, according to a new study. Yet among those boys, only about half described their first time as something ...
BOPIRA, Mozambique — As battered notebook in the lists the people still alive in this village after a devastating cyclone. But sip by sip, a deadly threat remains. Nearly a month after Cyclone Idai made landfall and unleashed flooding that reached the tops of ...
There's nothing fun about this fungus that's a yeast. Candida auris can, did, and is continuing to spread in hospitals around the world. It can remain on people's skin and objects, such as hospital furniture and equipment, for quite a long time and thus spread ...
(CNN) The number of children and teens in the United States who visited emergency rooms for suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts doubled between 2007 and 2015, according to a new analysis. Researchers used publicly available data from the National ...
For almost 40 years, the Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have issued dietary guidelines for the general public. Now, amid a childhood obesity epidemic in which Harvard researchers predict 57% of children ...
Vitamin D has been reported to have a wide range of benefits. However, a recent case study indicates that excessive use of vitamin D can cause kidney damage in people who are not deficient in the vitamin. The article was published online April 8 in the ...
NEW YORK — As more states make it legal to smoke marijuana, some officials, researchers and others worry what that might mean for one of the country's biggest public health successes: curbing cigarette smoking. The juxtaposition strikes some as jarring ...
NEW YORK. — As more states make it legal to smoke marijuana, some government officials, researchers and others worry what that might mean for one of the country's biggest public health successes : curbing cigarette smoking. Though there are notable ...
With spring comes glorious sunshine, warmer weather — and ticks. Ticks and some insect pests can carry bacteria, viruses and parasites that may cause disease in humans. One in particular, the blacklegged deer tick (Ixodes scapularis), is well-known for its ...
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). SUNDAY, April 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Regular brushing and flossing can save your teeth into old age. Could it also save your brain? The bacteria involved in gum disease might play a key role in ...
NEW YORK — Sniffling, sore-throated kids seen via telemedicine visits were far more likely to be prescribed antibiotics than those who went to a doctor's office or clinic, according to a new study. Many of those prescriptions disregarded medical guidelines, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — As more states make it legal to smoke marijuana, some government officials, researchers and others worry what that might mean for one of the country's biggest public health successes : curbing cigarette smoking. Though there are ...
People diagnosed with type 2 diabetes under the age of 40 were more likely to have developed or died from cardiovascular disease (CVD) than those of similar age without the disease, according to a study. Researchers also found that higher excess risk for ...
New exposure sites have been found across Oakland County and more than 2,150 vaccines have been given in the last three weeks. By Jessica Strachan, Patch Staff | Apr 8, 2019 11:50 am ET. Reply. 0. The measles outbreak has reached 38 cases in ...
MONDAY, April 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Scotland is already seeing a payoff for vaccinating adolescent girls for human papillomavirus (HPV). Since the vaccine became routine about a decade ago, cervical cancer cases in young Scottish women have ...
By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, April 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Scotland is already seeing a payoff for vaccinating adolescent girls for human papillomavirus (HPV). Since the vaccine became routine about a decade ago, ...
A huge analysis of drinking patterns among veterans has found genetic distinctions between heavy drinkers and alcoholics, according to a study published last week in the journal Nature Communications. The research team, co-led by the University of ...
Leaders in a New York county are weighing legal options after a judge ruled Friday against banning unvaccinated children from public places as a way to prevent the measles outbreak in Rockland County from spreading. Rockland County enacted the ...
The number of patients with Parkinson's disease worldwide was 2.5 million in 1990 and jumped more than 100% in the 25 years since to an estimated 6.1 million in 2016, according to findings published in Lancet Neurology. Some data suggest that number ...
A new study suggests that children with cold symptoms who get care via telemedicine are much more likely to be prescribed antibiotics than those who are seen in-person, prompting concerns about over-prescription and the rise of drug-resistant germs.
The number of measles cases recorded across the U.S. rose by almost 100 last week as the annual total continued its march toward record levels, federal health officials reported Monday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 465 cases have ...
Telemedicine may be leading to the overprescribing of antibiotics to sniffling children, a new study suggests. Kids with cold symptoms seen via telemedicine visits were far more likely to be prescribed antibiotics than those who went to a doctor's office or clinic, ...
Scientists have identified key changes in immune cells within cancerous tumours that could help improve the development of treatments. The study also found a set of genes that are expressed at high levels in breast cancer tumours and linked to more ...
A children's hospital in the District has reported an outbreak of norovirus, saying three of its patients showed signs of the illness last week and have tested positive. Officials with the HSC Pediatric Center, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children, said they have ...
Approximately one in 10 heterosexual Japanese adults in their thirties are virgins, according to scientists investigating why a portion of the country's population appears to been turned off by sex. In the past decade, half of the population had lost their virginity ...
By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, April 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Vitamin D is the healthy "sunshine" vitamin, but it can have a dark side, one Canadian man discovered. A team of Toronto physicians reported on the case of a ...
New York – As more states make it legal to smoke marijuana, some government officials, researchers and others worry what that might mean for one of the country's biggest public health successes: curbing cigarette smoking. Though there are notable ...
The brains of mice and of humans may not be identical, but they have a few important things in common. Other than general gray wrinkliness, and a similar structure, each experiences a key window of development during adolescence, which begins in ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Like health officials facing outbreaks of disease, internet companies are trying to contain vaccine-related misinformation they have long helped spread. So far, their efforts at quarantine are falling short. Searches of Facebook, Pinterest ...
MONDAY, April 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Vitamin D is the healthy "sunshine" vitamin, but it can have a dark side, one Canadian man discovered. A team of Toronto physicians reported on the case of a 54-year-old man who developed kidney damage after ...
A study published in Pediatrics revealed that children with acute respiratory infections who are treated through direct-to-consumer telemedicine visits are significantly more likely to receive antibiotics. These children, according to the researchers, are also less ...
Scientists have created new imaging technology to visualise what cells eat, which could help with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer. Edinburgh University researchers developed chemical probes which light up when they attach to ...
MONDAY, April 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Suicide attempts and talk about suicide are rising alarmingly among America's kids, with emergency departments seeing a near doubling of cases over less than a decade, a new study reveals. Among children ...
As more states make it legal to smoke marijuana, some government officials, researchers and others worry what that might mean for one of the country's biggest public health successes : curbing cigarette smoking. Though there are notable differences in ...
Like health officials facing outbreaks of disease, internet companies are trying to contain bad information about vaccines. By BARBARA ORTUTAYAssociated Press. Email Writer. Share. facebook · tweet · reddit · email · print. Read Article. SAN FRANCISCO ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Zapping the brains of people over 60 with a mild electrical current improved a form of memory enough that they performed like people in their 20s, a new study found. Someday, people might visit clinics to boost that ability, which declines ...
Developed primarily to treat drug-resistant epilepsy in children in the 1920s, the ketogenic (or keto) diet has since morphed into a very popular weight loss and mental well-being fad whose advocates are about as avid as champions of the Atkins low carb diet.
When Whitney Bliesner's twin sister Jill Noe told her she would be jealous if anyone else got to be her surrogate, she was incredibly moved. "It still gives me goosebumps to this day," said Bliesner, who has a rare genetic disorder that would make pregnancy ...
Dozens have fallen ill in a multi-state E. coli outbreak — but the CDC says the cause of the outbreak isn't known. A reported 72 people have become sick with E. coli O103 since March 2, the CDC announced Friday. Eight people have been hospitalized, ...
BOPIRA, Mozambique (AP) - As battered notebook in the lists the people still alive in this village after a devastating cyclone. But sip by sip, a deadly threat remains. Nearly a month after Cyclone Idai made landfall and unleashed flooding that reached the tops ...
More than 70 people across five states were struck down by E. coli between in the past five weeks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Eight of the 72 cases were so severe that the people had to be hospitalized for treatment.
Motherhood is a beautiful journey. The ability to give birth to a beating heart is surely miraculous and it is only obvious that it comes with a lot of body changes in a woman. When 26-year-old Priyanshi gained weight, post her cesarean delivery, people were ...
Eating garlic could reduce the risk of developing memory problems later in life, scientists who studied mice believe. Some 5.8 million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer's disease, with this figure predicted to hit 14 million by 2050. But we don't know what ...
A thirty something woman came to see me in a panic. "I have so much to do. I have to take care of my family, do the cooking and the cleaning, work a part time job, spend some time with my husband and find time for me. I am getting worried that I stay ...
A 99-year-old woman who died not knowing her organs grew on the wrong side of her body is thought to be the oldest person to survive with the rare congenital condition. Rose Marie Bentley, from the rural town of Molalla, Oregon, was born with situs ...
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