MONSEY, N.Y. — In a suburban shopping center an hour north of New York City, hundreds of mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered in a sex-partitioned ballroom to hear leaders of the national anti-vaccine movement. Sustained applause greeted Del Bigtree, ...
The toddler looking up at Dr. Melanie Seifman in her Washington, D.C., exam room seems a little dazed. It could be because she just woke up from a nap at daycare. It could be that she remembers the shots she got last time, and she knows what's coming.
There have now been 880 measles cases reported in this year's outbreak, already the largest since 1994, federal health officials said on Monday. An additional 41 cases were reported last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Add the possibility of reducing cravings and anxiety in heroin addicts to the growing list of potential CBD uses. Researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York announced Tuesday that results of a small study found a promising, and unexpected, new use of ...
(CNN) Cannabidiol, the non-psychoactive ingredient in hemp and marijuana, could treat opioid addiction, a new study says. Given to patients with heroin addiction, cannabidiol, also known as CBD, reduced their cravings for the illicit drug as well as their ...
Tissue engineering could transform medicine. Instead of waiting for our bodies to regrow or repair damage after an injury or disease, scientists could grow complex, fully functional tissues in a laboratory for transplantation into patients. Proteins are key to this ...
On Friday, the legislature of Missouri passed a ban on abortions, among the most extreme of any state. It prohibits any abortions after eight weeks of gestation, putting it among the category of misleadingly named "heartbeat bills" that use fetal cardiac activity ...
More than 1,100 people have died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Despite information campaigns, new treatment facilities that reduce disease transmission and an effective new vaccine, the outbreak is spreading because of ongoing ...
The first sign that something was wrong in the small southern Pakistani town of Ratto Dero appeared in February. A handful of worried parents had taken their children to the doctor, complaining that their little ones could not shake off a fever. Within weeks ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Esketamine nasal spray (Spravato) was effective for alleviating symptoms of treatment-resistant depression when added to a standard antidepressant, but clinicians should be cautious with it, researchers said here. In a phase III trial, 197 ...
A small study has offered new data on how cannabis-derived cannabidiol (CBD) could help to curb the international opioid crisis. Results of a study published this week in the American Journal of Psychiatry suggest that CBD could help to reduce the anxiety ...
Blowing past the 1,800 case mark, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reported 39 cases over the weekend as well as a pair of assaults on burial teams, along with 10 new infections today, according to the latest official reports, raising the outbreak's ...
More Americans are diagnosed with skin cancer annually than all other cancers combined, and one in five will develop skin cancer by the age of 70, according to the American Cancer Society. Last year, about 8,000 Floridians were diagnosed with melanoma, ...
Cannabidiol, the non-psychoactive ingredient in hemp and marijuana, could treat opioid addiction, a new study says. Given to patients with heroin addiction, cannabidiol, also known as CBD, reduced their cravings for the illicit drug as well as their levels of ...
(Reuters Health) - Select hospitals designated as "Centers of Excellence" by major U.S. health plans may not necessarily have lower death rates or fewer repeat admissions than other hospitals, a study of heart patients suggests. Several health insurance ...
(Reuters) - The worst measles outbreak in the United States in 25 years has spread to Oklahoma, federal health officials said on Monday as they reported 41 new cases nationwide, raising the total number sickened this year to 880 people. The U.S. Centers ...
As natural as breastfeeding is, sometimes we can be a little confused on what to expect or what that journey will look like for us. Although people are making progress on their attitude toward public and workplace breastfeeding, there's still a stigma around it.
(CNN) Belgium's Royal Academy of Medicine recommended last week that children, teens, pregnant women and nursing mothers do not follow a vegan diet. An estimated 3% of Belgian children follow this type of vegetarianism that excludes meat, eggs, dairy ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people are thought to have caught dengue fever in an unprecedented outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease on the French overseas territory of La Reunion, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
It's estimated one in five Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime and melanoma accounts for 75% of skin cancer deaths. It's a good reason to wear your sunscreen and keep an eye on changes to your skin. By. Up Next. ×. SHARE. COPY LINK.
A study of more than 19,000 people has found that women with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than men with the condition, according to research published in the European Respiratory Journal. OSA, where the ...
(Reuters Health) - Homemade sunscreens on Pinterest may look pretty and smell even prettier, but most of them won't shield you from sunburn or skin cancer, new research shows. "Ninety-five percent of the pins really positively portrayed the effectiveness of ...
According to results of a new study, while suicide rates have increased among all youth, there has been a steep increase in young girls . Depressed lonely teenager in the park. Getty. The study from Nationwide Children's Hospital noted that from 1999-2014 ...
Facebook this morning announced a new initiative focused on using its data and technologies to help nonprofit organizations and universities working in public health better map the spread of infectious diseases around the world. Specifically, the company is ...
Cannabidiol (CBD; Epidiolex) reduced opioid cravings and anxiety among heroin users, suggesting it may have a role in curbing addiction, an exploratory trial found. Compared with placebo, once daily CBD 400 or 800 mg diminished cue-related cravings ...
Summer is the ideal time to enjoy the outdoors, but while you're interacting with nature, you need to look out for ticks that carry Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne disease in the United States. About 300,000 people are diagnosed with Lyme disease ...
The number of measles cases reported in the U.S. is continuing to climb despite efforts to stifle spread of a disease that was declared eliminated in this country almost two decades ago. Another 41 cases were reported last week, raising the 2019 total to a ...
It's a surgical cut made during childbirth that doctors have been officially warned for more than a decade does more harm to women than good. Mothers who receive episiotomies – an incision at the vaginal opening to create more room as a baby's head ...
(Reuters Health) - New teen drivers with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder are more likely to crash their cars than adolescents who don't have ADHD - especially right after they get their license, a new study suggests. Researchers followed 14,936 teens in ...
Measles, once thought to have been eliminated in the U.S., is popping up in isolated outbreaks as a result of skipped well-child visits and parents' fears that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine is linked to autism. Though some 350 measles cases ...
TUESDAY, May 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Despite an epidemic of childhood obesity, the cholesterol levels of American kids have been improving over the past 20 years, a new study shows. Researchers found that since 1999, levels of "bad" LDL ...
The death of a 14-year-old girl following an MRI scan is to be investigated by a health watchdog. Alice Sloman, from Torbay, had autism and was given an anaesthetic for the scan after becoming "extremely anxious" and "hypersensitive". But a hormone given ...
By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, May 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Cannabidiol (CBD) has been receiving a lot of attention lately as a potential treatment for everything from epilepsy to anxiety. Now, researchers report it might ...
Facebook logo. Angela Lang/CNET. Facebook wants to help public health organizations combat diseases by providing them with a valuable tool: a trio of maps that include data about where people live, how they move and if they have internet access.
By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, May 20, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Steering clear of folks who are coughing and sneezing is one way to prevent catching the flu. Avoiding e-cigarettes may be another, new research suggests.
Butembo (DR Congo) (AFP) - People in Ebola-hit eastern DR Congo are struggling to come to terms with high-security burials that are part of a hard-pressed strategy to roll back the disease. Anyone who dies of the highly infectious haemorrhagic fever has to ...
TUESDAY, May 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Air pollution levels have been declining for years, and researchers can now show that cleaner air is linked to fewer kids developing asthma. The new study looked at nine California communities. The researchers ...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month was established back in 1949 to "fight stigma, provide support, educate the public and advocate for policies that support people with mental illness and their families," (National Association for Mental Illness, NAMI).
TUESDAY, May 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Cannabidiol (CBD) has been receiving a lot of attention lately as a potential treatment for everything from epilepsy to anxiety. Now, researchers report it might also help curb the cravings that come with opioid ...
Scientists behind a study showing exercise can ease the symptoms of disorders like depression hope working out could one day be prescribed to mental health patients in hospitals. The team behind the paper, published in the journal Global Advances in ...
Insurance claims for mental health and substance use conditions have more than doubled in the last decade, a new report found. And the increase is driven largely by teens and young adults. The report was published this month by FAIR Health, a health care ...
Sleep problems can cause a whole slew of health conditions, so it's important to fix a decline in sleep time and quality, especially in teenagers. New research says that there's an easy way to improve adolescents' sleep quality in just a single week: simply limit ...
TBI is the leading cause of death and disability in people under 45 in developed countries. The primary injury, caused by the initial force from a fall or car accident for example, is followed by a secondary injury which develops in the minutes, hours and days ...
People who experience anxiety symptoms might be helped by taking steps to regulate the microorganisms in their gut using probiotic and non-probiotic food and supplements, suggests a review of studies published today in the journal General Psychiatry.
Those looking to stay safe from the sun should steer far clear of do-it-yourself sunscreens, a new study out Monday suggests. The study looked at recipes of homemade sunscreens shared on the popular website Pinterest and found these concoctions were ...
What would a real-time measles epidemic look like? A group of Texas pediatricians has asked researchers at the University of Pittsburgh to present a model that shows what could happen to a municipality should vaccination rates decrease by 10 percent.
Researchers at McMaster University have invented a stable, affordable way to store fragile vaccines for weeks at a time at temperatures up to 40C, opening the way for life-saving anti-viral vaccines to reach remote and impoverished regions of the world.
The proliferation of potentially harmful information regarding homemade sunscreens via social media, specifically Pinterest, is following a similar trend as the antivaccination movement, according to a study published in Health Communication. Pinterest has ...
A new cancer study made headlines this week as researchers found that a low-fat diet helps reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer. The findings of this large, long-term study could have life changing results for millions of women. Tali Lando, a pediatric ...
By NewsDesk @bactiman63. Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine announced the declaration of a hepatitis A outbreak in the Keystone State, making it the 23th state to do so since mid-2016. Image/PDOH. Since January 2018, 171 cases have ...
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