In 2000, the Pan-American Health Organization announced a monumental public health achievement: Widespread vaccination efforts, overseen by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had effectively eliminated measles from the United States.
Americans could be forgiven for not knowing that much about measles. After all, it's been 51 years since an effective vaccine was introduced, quickly turning the disease from a common childhood experience to a rarity, and nearly two decades since the ...
A custom-made drone delivered a kidney this month to a Maryland woman who had waited eight years for a lifesaving transplant. While it was only a short test flight — less than three miles in total — the team that created the drone at the University of Maryland ...
For a tree pollen allergy sufferer like me, spring is torture. Flowering trees are my kryptonite, and during peak bloom it feels like pollen stokes a six-week permasneeze from which there's no reprieve until the end of June. And since 2018's Fourth National ...
Federal health regulators announced on Tuesday that they would require manufacturers of sleeping pills such as Ambien and related drugs to post strongly worded warnings in boxes on labels and patient guides. The Food and Drug Administration, in what it ...
(CNN) The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached a grim milestone, with 27 new cases confirmed in a single day -- a record for the current outbreak. The outbreak, which is the second deadliest in history, has proven difficult to bring ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the agency is requiring a new boxed warning – the agency's most prominent warning – on certain prescription insomnia drugs to better ensure patients and their health care professionals have the ...
More young people than ever are trying to kill themselves using poison. The rate of attempted suicide by poison has more than doubled among people under 19 in the past decade in the United States and more than tripled for girls and young women 10 to 24.
By Steven Reinberg. HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, April 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Treating men with low-risk prostate cancer with just one high dose of radiation may be safe and effective, British researchers report. Therapy for prostate cancer typically ...
CAR T-cells are becoming somewhat of a household name, but a new phase I trial is, for the first time, using CAR 'NKT' cells, featuring genetic modification of a different immune cell, natural killer cells. Natural killer cells have long been known to be important ...
On April 30, 1665, Samuel Pepys recorded his first diary entry about the Great Plague of London: "Great fears of the sickness here in the city, it being said that two or three hourses are already shut up. God preserve us all." 354 years later, to the day, officials in ...
In the wake of violent attacks in Butembo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that killed a World Health Organization (WHO) responder, two top WHO officials today wrapped up a visit to the city, as the surge of cases continued in the outbreak, with ...
(BUTEMBO, Congo) — The woman spent more than a week at home sick before family members tried to take her to an Ebola treatment center in eastern Congo. Before the motorcycle could reach the facility, it was too late. Her crumpled body rested against ...
TUESDAY, April 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Many Americans use prescription sleep meds such as Ambien, Lunesta and Sonata to get good shut-eye. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday slapped a tough new warning label on this class ...
By Robert Preidt. HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, April 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- There's new data supporting the use of Epidiolex -- the first cannabidiol (CBD) medicine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- to help curb a form of ...
By Amy Norton. HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, April 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly adults commonly have memory and thinking problems that look a lot like Alzheimer's disease, but they might really be suffering from a different form of dementia.
The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) has issued a vampire warning. Before you stock up on your garlic, holy water, and stakes, this warning is about vampire facials and two people who developed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections ...
At least two clients of a shuttered New Mexico day spa tested HIV positive, a state health official said, possibly from receiving a "vampire facial." The two people were infected at VIP Spa in Albuquerque between May and September 2018, according to the New ...
The growing number of syphilis cases in Minnesota women has spawned a new problem: syphilis infections in newborn babies. Ten cases of congenital syphilis were found in 2018 in fetuses or newborn babies, a shocking number given that the Minnesota ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some people told they have Alzheimer's may instead have a newly identified mimic of the disease — and scientists say even though neither is yet curable, it's critical to get better at telling different kinds of dementia apart. Too often, the ...
(WASHINGTON) — Some people told they have Alzheimer's may instead have a newly identified mimic of the disease — and scientists say even though neither is yet curable, it's critical to get better at telling different kinds of dementia apart. Too often, the ...
By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, April 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- There's new data supporting the use of Epidiolex -- the first cannabidiol (CBD) medicine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- to help curb a ...
(CNN) The rate of suicide attempts by poisoning among young people in the United States has more than doubled in the past decade and more than tripled for girls and young women, according to a study published Wednesday. Researchers at Nationwide ...
Victims of the contaminated blood scandal have been telling a public inquiry how their lives have been ruined. The hearing is looking at how thousands of people were infected with hepatitis C and HIV from contaminated blood they were given in the 1970s ...
By Dennis Thompson. HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, April 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Chronic fatigue syndrome is such a mysterious illness that it took years to be recognized as a legitimate ailment, and doctors still struggle to accurately diagnose it.
The Food and Drug Administration said it would require some commonly prescribed sleep aids to carry the agency's toughest boxed warning about serious risks following reports of at least 20 deaths. The FDA said on Tuesday prescription insomnia pills that ...
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, April 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Treating men with low-risk prostate cancer with just one high dose of radiation may be safe and effective, British researchers report. Therapy for prostate ...
(Reuters Health) - While teens mostly navigate the internet with ease, they may have a tough time finding information on sexual health, a new study suggests. One of the biggest barriers to finding accurate information on sexual health was teens' fear that their ...
GLASGOW — The planning of services around weight management and type 2 diabetes prevention may be hindered by the poor recording of body mass index (BMI) in primary care, the results of a Scottish study suggests. Kath Williamson, RGN, DN, ...
By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, May 1, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Polycystic ovary syndrome is a common cause of infertility and type 2 diabetes, but little is known about its origins. Now, new research suggests a gene ...
(CNN) For the first time, a drone delivered a donated kidney that was then successfully transplanted into a patient, University of Maryland Medical Center said last week. Unmanned aircraft delivery could soon become the fastest, safest and least expensive ...
By JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press. LOS ANGELES (AP) — A person who returned to California from overseas was infected with measles, health officials said Tuesday, emphasizing the traveler was not connected to other cases that prompted quarantines ...
Two new urine tests appear to accurately detect bladder cancer, determine its severity and detect its recurrence, investigators report. The tests look at activity and levels of V1, a gene variant upregulated in bladder cancer that dissolves natural sugars in the ...
Diet can have significant effects on the gut microbiome, the populations of microorganisms such as bacteria that live in the human gut. It is well recognised that through complex metabolic interactions, dietary habits contribute to cancer prevention.
The exorbitant costs of cancer drugs make it difficult for public and private health care systems to provide the latest treatments to patients. If this trend continues it will become increasingly difficult for patients to access basic cancer treatment, let alone the new ...
In the coming weeks, children under 2 years of age will be receiving the first anti-malaria vaccine in Ghana and Kenya in a groundbreaking effort to target eliminating one of the world's biggest killers of children. The test vaccine was first introduced on April 23 ...
By Robert Preidt. HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, April 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- In what researchers are calling a groundbreaking achievement, an unmanned drone delivered a new kidney for a 44-year-old Baltimore woman. On April 19, the aircraft ...
Childhood obesity is a major problem. But now news has emerged that one city - Leeds - has been making some progress. Figures presented at an obesity conference suggest Leeds has managed to reduce the number of children who are extremely ...
Modern consumers have access to more health and nutrition education than ever before. However, there are also more certifications, nutrition information and conflicting claims highlighted on food labels in the grocery aisle. Lately, messaging on food ...
More and more people are looking to combine cannabis with their workout routine. According to a new paper published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health Tuesday, marijuana users in states where the drug is recreationally legal said that they use it either ...
(CNN) Certain commonly used sleeping pills will now contain a new boxed warning alerting patients to possible serious or life-threatening behaviors that may result from taking these drugs, the US Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday.
A study in mice shows that selectively removing cells that are no longer dividing from the brains of mice with a form of Alzheimer's disease can reduce brain damage and inflammation, and slow the pace of cognitive decline. These findings, say researchers, ...
Certain commonly used sleeping pills will now contain a new boxed warning alerting patients to possible serious or life-threatening behaviors that may result from taking these drugs, the US Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday . The move ...
An emergency doctor says a visit from a patient with measles to a Halifax emergency room two weeks ago has put at least one doctor temporarily out of work and caused other complications behind the scenes. On April 17, an individual from New Brunswick ...
Results from a British Heart Foundation-funded study in the U.K. have demonstrated how a drug that is used to treat erectile dysfunction may also help to hold back the progression of heart failure (HF). Research carried out in sheep by a team at the University ...
One week after declaring a measles outbreak, Los Angeles County health officials on Tuesday said they are investigating another confirmed case after a sixth resident contracted the illness. The person became infected while traveling overseas and arrived at ...
Among top stories in infectious disease from the last week were the WHO launching a malaria vaccine program for children in Malawi, Ghana and Kenya and the CDC announcing that measles cases in the United States are at the highest level since the ...
(Note: Print or Digital Use Allowed. Please credit Stateline, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts. For downloadable graphics, please visit www.pewtrusts.org/stateline). By Christine Vestal. May 1 (Stateline) - It's increasingly likely that someone you know ...
Children in Ghana are starting to get a new vaccine designed to stop malaria. Ghana is the second African country to get the vaccine, which is expected to reduce cases of the mosquito-borne and sometimes fatal disease. But experts caution that other ...
Patients who received one of the 21,167 kidney transplants performed in the United States last year no doubt want to ensure their new organ stays healthy, ie, rejection free. Even when patients stick to their prescribed immunosuppressive drug regimen, ...
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