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How HHS Secretary Alex Azar Reconciles Medicaid Cuts With Stopping The Spread Of HIV In his State of the Union address this year, President Trump announced an initiative "to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years." The man who pitched the president on this idea is Alex Azar, the Secretary of the Department of Health ...
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CDC finds 78 new measles cases as outbreak sprints toward record and experts blame anti-vaxxers For the second week in a row, U.S. health officials added dozens of new reports to the year's list of confirmed measles cases, bringing the total to 465 — already the highest number in the last five years. It's another significant milepost on the road to what will ...
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Culture of Secrecy Shields Hospitals With Outbreaks of Drug-Resistant Infections In January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent out an urgent public alert about a deadly bacteria, resistant to virtually every known antibiotic, that sickened more than a dozen Americans who had elective surgery at Grand View Hospital in ...
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Orthodox Jewish yeshivas banned from sending unvaccinated students to school in New York Orthodox Jewish schools in New York have been ordered to ban unvaccinated students, as measles cases in the city continue to climb "at an alarming rate" within the Orthodox community, health officials said. The New York City Department of Health said in a ...
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Candida Auris: The Fungus Nobody Wants to Talk About In 30 years, I've never faced so tough a reporting challenge — and one so unexpected. Who wouldn't want to talk about a fungus? Last year, I began spade work on a series of articles about drug-resistant microbes: bacteria and fungi that have developed the ...
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Measles Spreads to 4 More States as 2019 Outbreak Grows A measles outbreak that has sickened hundreds of people continues to spread throughout the United States, new government data shows, with four states recording their first cases of the virus for 2019. In the first week of April, the country added 78 new ...
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Spread of Measles Accelerates, With US Cases Rising to 465 So Far This Year The spread of measles is accelerating in the U.S., driven mostly by an outbreak in New York City, data released Monday show, signaling the difficulties that public health officials are having in stopping transmission of the highly contagious disease.
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Yeshivas that let in unvaccinated students amid measles outbreak could face closure, NYC says New York City has ordered yeshivas in a heavily Orthodox Jewish section of Brooklyn to exclude from classes all students who aren't vaccinated against measles or face violations and possible closure. The city health department's order to all yeshivas in ...
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New York City declares measles public health emergency New York Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency Tuesday in parts of Brooklyn's Williamsburg section following a measles outbreak affecting the Orthodox Jewish community. Unvaccinated people living in designated ZIP codes who may ...
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78 new measles cases reported nationwide since last week, CDC says (CNN) At least 465 cases of measles have been reported in the United States since January 1, according to the latest numbers shared by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday. That's 78 more cases than the number reported last ...
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New study finds some boys are having sex before age 13 Talking to your children about sex can be awkward, but new research suggests that parents need to have those conversations much earlier than they do. In two national surveys, investigators found that between 4% and 8% of boys reported having sex before ...
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DTC Telemedicine Linked to More Antibiotics for ARIs Children diagnosed with acute respiratory infections (ARIs) during direct-to-consumer (DTC) telemedicine visits are more likely to be prescribed antibiotics compared with those diagnosed during in-person primary care or urgent care visits, researchers report ...
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How a New Cancer 'Vaccine' Fights Tumors Throughout the Body A new cancer "vaccine" that's injected directly into a single tumor can trigger the immune system to attack cancer cells throughout the body, a small new study suggests. The researchers say that the experimental therapy essentially turns tumors into "cancer ...
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Learning With: 'A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy' Before reading the article: Have you ever taken antibiotics? If so, how often? Do you recall the last illness for which they were prescribed? Were the antibiotics effective? Watch this nine-minute video, "Revenge of the Bacteria: Why We're Losing the War," ...
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Missouri bill would bar discrimination for not vaccinating JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A panel of Missouri lawmakers on Monday considered enacting a ban on discrimination against unvaccinated children, an effort that comes as other states look to increase immunization amid disease outbreaks. Parents testified to ...
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Vitamin supplements don't help people live longer, study finds Dietary supplements don't extend life and might actually shorten it if taken at high levels, researchers reported Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine. While certain nutrients may contribute to a longer life, they need to come from a food source, the study ...
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Vitamins from Food — Not Supplements — Linked with Longer Life There's some good and bad news about vitamins and minerals: The good news is that intake of certain vitamins and minerals is linked with a lower risk of early death. The bad news is that this link is seen only when those nutrients come from food, not ...
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PET Imaging Improves MCI, Dementia Diagnoses, Alters Patient Management Amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in patients with suspected mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia results in more accurate diagnoses and alters patient management, results of a large, longitudinal study show. Overall, investigators ...
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Children who live near major roads are more likely to have developmental delays, study says (CNN) Highways often cause parents to worry about their children's physical safety, yet there may be other important concerns. Young children who live near a major roadway are twice as likely to score lower on tests of communications skills than those who ...
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Vitamins and Supplements Can't Replace a Balanced Diet, Study Says Roughly 90% of American adults do not eat enough fruits and vegetables, but many are trying to make up for it by popping pills. According to the Council for Responsible Nutrition, 75% of U.S. adults take a dietary supplement of some kind. Multivitamins, many ...
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Measles cases now reach 465 in the US, mostly in kids Measles cases in the U.S. are continuing to jump, and most of the reported illnesses are in children. Health officials say 465 measles cases have been reported this year, as of last week. That's up from 387 the week before. The numbers are preliminary.
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"Unbeatable" superbug fungus sickens hundreds across the US, CDC says A drug-resistant superbug fungus has sickened nearly 600 people across the United States in recent years, including more than 300 patients in New York State, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Candida auris, which preys on people ...
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Live Organ Donor Dangers Debunked by Unlikely Source VIENNA — More than 1000 living-donor liver transplants are performed each year in Turkey, compared with about 300 in the United States, which makes the country straddling Eastern Europe and Western Asia an unpredictably ideal location for surgeons to ...
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To stop measles spread, Birmingham school tells unvaccinated kids not to come to class Monday morning started like any other at Birmingham's Derby Middle School, where school officials confirmed a student with the measles attended classes on March 29 while potentially contagious. Buses pulled up along the circle drive, and a stream of cars ...
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Artificial blood vessels that come to life could improve medical care. Here's why. Fake blood vessels are starting to get real. New research shows that "bioengineered" blood vessels are able to incorporate living cells after being implanted in the human body, becoming blood-carrying, self-healing tubes that function less as substitutes for ...
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Autism symptoms reduced nearly 50 percent two years after fecal transplant According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one in every 59 children in the U.S. is diagnosed with autism, up from one in every 150 in 2000. They report that "about half a million people on the autism spectrum will become adults over ...
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FDA Clears New Drug-Sparing Option for HIV Infection The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved the first two-drug, fixed-dose, complete regimen for HIV-infected adults. Dovato, from ViiV Healthcare, contains dolutegravir (50 mg) and lamivudine (300 mg) and is indicated for adults with no ...
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Immune-Targeted Treatment Might Help Prevent Peanut Allergy Crises By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, April 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Allergic reactions to peanuts can be incredibly dangerous, causing the throat to close, the chest to tighten, and throw a person into life-threatening ...
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Why You Don't Need to Worry About That New Drug-Resistant Super Fungus Is fungus something that you should spend significant brain space worrying about? After the New York Times published an excellent and meticulously researched and reported story about the growing threat of a drug-resistant yeast called Candida auris this ...
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Hay fever pollen 'DNA' may improve forecasts Spring is here - and for a quarter of the those living in the UK, noses are beginning to twitch and eyes itch. April is a month for tree pollen to make itself known, before grass pollen has hay fever sufferers looking for relief in summer. But why is hay fever worse ...
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Brainstorm Health: Brain Stimulation, GSK HIV Drug, Telemedicine and Antibiotics Happy Monday, readers—I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Alzheimer's and dementia researchers have had to endure a cascade of heartbreaking drug development failures in recent years. Traditional pharmaceutical treatments based on the "beta ...
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Most women need mammograms every other year starting at 50 Women at average risk for breast cancer can wait to start getting mammograms until age 50 and be screened every other year, according to new guidelines from the American College of Physicians. Many women worry about breast cancer, but most aren't at ...
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These horrifying pollen clouds remind us it's allergy season Feeling like your allergies are in overdrive? You're not alone. Pollen counts are increasing across the country in recent weeks forecasters at Pollen.com say, which means nearly 50 million Americans will suffer from some combination of a runny nose, watery, ...
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ACP issues guidance statement for breast cancer screening of average-risk women Average-risk women, between the ages of 50 and 74, who have no symptoms for breast cancer should undergo breast cancer screening with mammography every other year, the American College of Physicians (ACP) states in a new evidence-based ...
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New recommendations say most women don't need yearly mammograms Nearly 270,000 American women are expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, and 65 percent of women 40 and over have had a screening in the past two years. But there's been conflicting guidance on how often women should get ...
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Congo Ebola outbreak 'far from contained,' US aid chief says WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is far from contained, U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Mark Green said on Tuesday. "In the last week we have seen a number of signs that ...
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Measles Q&A: Disease Is Serious, but Preventable The number of U..S. measles cases is rising. Here some things to know about this highly contagious illness. What are the symptoms of measles? Measles symptoms appear roughly seven to 14 days after a person is infected and initially include a high fever, ...
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Med School Cadaver's Heart Was In the Right Place (But Her Other Organs Weren't) A woman's body that was recently donated to a medical school in Oregon provided an anatomy lesson that was much stranger than instructors expected. When students at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland dissected the cadaver of ...
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All Her Organs Were in the Wrong Place, But Rose Bentley Lived to 99 By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, April 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Before her recent passing at the ripe old age of 99, Rose Marie Bentley harbored a remarkable secret. Outwardly, nothing seemed out of place or extraordinary about this ...
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'One in 50 million': Woman lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places — and she never knew it PORTLAND, Oregon — On an early spring day in 2018, the faint smell of formaldehyde floating in the air, 26-year-old medical student Warren Nielsen and four of his classmates prepped a cadaver in the chilly dissection lab at Oregon Health and Science ...
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Number of children going to ER with suicidal thoughts, attempts doubles, study finds 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 ...
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Number of measles cases in Michigan rises to 41, highest since 1991 (WXYZ) — There are now 41 confirmed measles cases in southeast Michigan, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday. It's the highest number of cases in Michigan since 1991. The two new confirmed cases are in ...
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Cancer 'vaccine' shows promise in human trial of lymphoma patients An experimental cancer "vaccine" showed promising results in a small clinical trial of patients with lymphoma, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine. Researchers at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital tested the treatment in 11 ...
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The Earlier You Develop Type 2 Diabetes, the Greater Your Heart Risks TUESDAY, April 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Young adults and women with type 2 diabetes are at increased risk of developing heart disease -- and dying from it, a new study says. The findings suggest "we need to be more aggressive in controlling risk ...
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She lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it (CNN) — On an early spring day in 2018, the faint smell of formaldehyde floating in the air, 26-year-old medical student Warren Nielsen and four of his classmates prepped a cadaver in the chilly dissection lab at Oregon Health and Science University in ...
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Cancer drug shortages have little effect on chemotherapy use, study finds Despite chronic shortages of cancer drugs that could disrupt care, a new study has found that to have little impact on outpatient chemotherapy treatment over a seven-year period. "These findings are surprising in light of the substantial media and policy ...
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Another Study Says HPV Shot Cuts Cervical Cancer By Robert Preidt. HealthDay Reporter. 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 ...
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Ebola cases grow by 37 in 3 days as DRC has record day With 37 Ebola cases reported in the past 72 hours, the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) raged on this weekend and today, and the 16 cases reported yesterday are the most for a single day during this 8-month outbreak. The new cases ...
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Suicidal Behavior Nearly Doubles Among US Kids By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). 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 ...
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Is it genetic code or postal code that influence a child's life chances? Most children inherit both their postal code and their genetic code from their parents. But if genetic factors influence where families are able to live and children's health and educational success, improving neighborhoods may not be enough. Latest research at ...
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