Olivia, or Livy Shea, as her family and friends called her, grew up in a small community west of Baltimore and considered going to college in South Carolina. She loved beaches and had a soft spot for country music. Mostly, she wanted a university with a lot of ...
Some doctors fighting the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history are afraid to wear scrubs. They mask their identities to avoid harassment and violence in Congo, where the epidemic is spreading at the fastest rate since it started in August — and where ...
At least six million obese teenagers in the United States are candidates for weight-loss surgery, experts estimate. Fewer than 1,000 of them get it each year. Many of these adolescents already have complications of obesity, like diabetes or high blood pressure ...
Spring is a deceptive season. It tricks you into thinking you've emerged from the dull gloom of winter into a bright festival of light, green, health and freshness. You want to go outside, but if you are an anxious and decently informed person, you may have a ...
When the man arrived at the hospital with severe abdominal pains, a nurse didn't consider it an emergency, noting that he was obese and had stopped taking blood pressure medicines. In reality, he was pregnant — a transgender man in labor that was about ...
By Serena Gordon. HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Health experts have long touted the benefits of a low-fat diet for preventing heart disease, but now a large study suggests it might do the same against breast cancer.
Supporting tumor suppression. The protein PTEN is a phosphatase and tumor suppressor whose activity is often decreased in human cancers. Thus, reactivating such a protein could potentially be an effective therapy against cancer. Lee et al. identified a ...
(CNN) Less expensive, easier to prepare ultra-processed foods can make you fat, a new study says. People limited to a diet of primarily highly processed foods ate more calories and gained more weight than when their diet mostly consisted of minimally ...
Fifty-two people in 21 states have contracted salmonella from backyard poultry, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced. Five patients were hospitalized, and 28% of those sickened by these home-based chicks and ducklings are ...
(CNN) Suicide rates for young girls are rising at a pace faster than that of boys, changing the established patterns that boys are more likely to die by suicide and that girls are more likely to consider it and attempt it, according to a new study. Researchers at ...
The parents of young people who have killed themselves and patients unable to have sex are calling for the NHS to stop prescribing acne drug Roaccutane. Ed Henthorn said it had caused him erectile dysfunction, psychosis and suicidal thoughts. And one ...
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- It had been six days since Olivia Shea Paregol walked out of the University of Maryland health center without an answer for why she felt so awful. Now, the 18-year-old freshman was curled up in the fetal position on the floor of her ...
Compulsory measles vaccinations for all children starting primary school may be needed to prevent a resurgence of the disease, experts say. Italian researchers believe the current voluntary programmes in countries like the UK will not be enough to curb ...
By E.J. Mundell, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, May 17, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The rise in colon cases among younger adults that's been seen in the United States is also occurring in wealthier nations worldwide, new research shows.
FRIDAY, May 17, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The rise in colon cases among younger adults that's been seen in the United States is also occurring in wealthier nations worldwide, new research shows. In the decade leading up to 2014, the number of cases of ...
We've produced short videos that go in-depth into various topics along with discussion questions aimed at families, teachers and organizations. USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "You're Not Alone," a 30-minute documentary ...
This week's Business of Giving features Chip Lyons, president and CEO of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Elizabeth Glaser, married to actor Paul Michael Glaser, star of the TV show Starsky & Hutch, changed the attitude and willingness of ...
We are constantly bombarded by messages telling us that certain foods will prevent cancer or will give us cancer. Some foods even appear to reportedly do both, depending who you listen to or what you read, making it difficult to make informed dietary ...
Prompted by a rise in Lyme disease cases in Staten Island, researchers surveyed 24 urban parks in the five New York City boroughs and found certain features that were favorable to infected ticks, including vegetation and park connectivity. Writing in ...
By Alan Mozes. HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Chances are if you're over 60 it's already happened to you: You're in a crowded room and finding it tough to understand what your partner is saying a couple of feet away.
International travel brought the measles virus to Orthodox Jewish communities in New York and New Jersey and to Washington state, according to two new reports from officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state health ...
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Specific cell types in the brain appear to have altered gene expression in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to new research from investigators at the University of California at San Francisco, UC Santa ...
Teens who have obesity surgery lose as much weight as those who have the operation as adults and are more likely to have it resolve other health problems such as diabetes and high blood pressure, a study finds. The results suggest there's a benefit from ...
Nothing seemed unusual to Rehmana Bibi, the mother of 10-year-old Ali Raza, when the boy came down with a fever at their home in the dusty, largely neglected district of Larkana in southern Pakistan. Bibi took her son to a doctor, who prescribed ...
The rate of bowel cancer—otherwise known as colorectal cancer or CRC—is rising among adults aged 20-49 in Europe, suggests research published online in the journal Gut today. Rates rose most steeply among the youngest age group (20-29 years), and ...
WASHINGTON (May 16, 2019)-- As many as 90 percent of individuals who have a parent with Huntington's disease (HD) choose not to take a gene test that reveals if they will also develop the fatal disorder -- and a new study details the reasons why.
Earlier this week, several articles warned of a new report from a French government agency outlining dangers of blue light from LED lighting. These headlines are alarming because, depending on the time of day and your phone or computer's settings, your ...
The close relationship between humans and dogs is the longest of all the domestic animals, spanning more than 15,000 years. Modern-day dog ownership has also been linked with improved health and wellbeing, and even longevity. New research by ...
Your mother was right: Broccoli is good for you. Long associated with decreased risk of cancer, broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables—the family of plants that also includes cauliflower, cabbage, collard greens, Brussels sprouts and kale—contain a ...
The number of drug-related deaths in the Scottish Borders has more than doubled in the past year. There were 21 in 2018 compared with 10 in the previous 12 months. NHS Borders said the trend for drug-related deaths in the region was increasing and ...
The incidence of colon and rectal cancer in adults younger than 50 years has increased substantially over the latest available 10-year period in several high-income countries, going against a decline or stabilisation trend in the incidence of colorectal cancers ...
On Monday night in Monsey, the Atrium was packed with ultra-Orthodox Jews. The ballroom of the massive catering hall usually hosts lively Hasidic weddings. This week it welcomed hundreds of people from around the New York City area who had come to ...
Seventeen years after being infected with HIV, Ronald Jesser was dying. His immune system ravaged by the virus, he had developed stomach cancer in 1992. Over the next five years, three surgeries and three rounds of chemotherapy had done little to ...
Partial breast irradiation produces similar long-term survival rates and risk for recurrence compared with whole breast irradiation for many women with low-risk, early stage breast cancer, according to new clinical data from a national clinical trial involving ...
Issaquah High School resumes classes Friday after a one-day closure to check if staff members were vaccinated or immune against the measles virus. An employee at the school is one of five new measles cases in western Washington this week.
A faulty gene might explain why some dogs develop poor breathing. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have discovered a DNA mutation linked to breathing problems in popular dog breeds. Breathing difficulties are most often associated with flat-faced ...
Heat, dehydration, and anxiety can cause people to faint, which has the potential to be fatal if it happens while driving or cycling. Now researchers have come closer to explaining the phenomenon. The researchers analyzed data from the UK Biobank ...
Suicide rates have increased among all youth, but there has been a particularly sharp rise among young females, new research shows. A new study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that the suicide rate among girls aged ...
Some U.S. states have seen a decline in the number of emergency department visits tied to a suspected heroin overdose, a new analysis finds. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed emergency department data from 22 ...
Adolescents and adults saw similar amounts of weight loss after bariatric surgery, according to findings from a 5-year study. Following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, adolescent patients had an average drop in weight of 26% (95% CI -29% to -23%), compared ...
DAKAR, Senegal - Some doctors fighting the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history are afraid to wear scrubs. They mask their identities to avoid harassment and violence in Congo, where the epidemic is spreading at the fastest rate since it started in ...
Ticks and the diseases they carry are on the move, rapidly expanding into new territories once considered inhospitable. While many factors are to blame, the U.S. government affirmed with "high confidence" in a report that one reason is warmer weather ...
Issaquah High School will resume classes Friday after a one-day closure to check if staff members were vaccinated against the measles virus. An employee at the school is one of five new measles cases in western Washington this week. The Issaquah School ...
Changes in gene activity in specific brain cells are associated with the severity of autism in children and young adults with the disorder, according to a UC San Francisco study of postmortem brain tissue. The study's new insights into how specific changes in ...
Current vaccination policies may not be sufficient to achieve and maintain measles elimination and prevent future resurgence in Australia, Ireland, Italy, the UK and the US, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Medicine.
Current vaccination policies may not be sufficient to achieve and maintain measles elimination and prevent future resurgence in Australia, Ireland, Italy, the UK and the U.S., according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Medicine.
After years of steady increases, the number of Americans showing up in emergency departments with heroin overdoses is on a downswing, at least in some states. Between 2017 and 2018, many states saw a dramatic drop in the number of people being ...
More young people under 50 are being diagnosed with bowel cancer, two studies of the disease in European and high-income countries have found. Although total numbers of cases in young people remain low, the studies highlighted a sharp rise in rates in ...
By the time they reach school age, about 90 percent of children will have experienced a condition in which fluid fills the middle ear, muffling sound and sometimes triggering infection. Diagnosis usually requires a visit to a specialist—but researchers have now ...
After learning a fellow staff member at Issaquah High School tested positive for measles, Julia Valvano-Knoppi scrambled Thursday to prove she was protected against the highly contagious disease. The paraeducator called her mother, who had a clear ...
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