(CNN) Late last year, officials at the New York State Department of Health knew they had to act fast to stem the tide of a growing measles outbreak in ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. Reaching out in the community's own language, the agency spent tens of ...
This spring, a number of parents in Ratodero, a poor neighborhood in the city of Larkana in southern Pakistan, were worried about their children. Their kids had been running a fever for a while. Their parents had been taking them to a clinic run by Dr. Muzaffar ...
The marijuana compound CBD, or cannabidiol, may help reduce drug cravings in people with heroin addiction, a preliminary new study suggests. The study, which is published today (May 21) in the American Journal of Psychiatry, involved 42 people with ...
(Reuters Health) - Childhood asthma rates appear to be dropping in many communities across southern California, and a new study suggests this may be due at least in part to improved air quality. Air pollution has long been linked to a variety of respiratory ...
The record-breaking climb in US overdose deaths—which now outnumber peak annual deaths from car crashes, guns, and HIV—has led some to second-guess cannabis legalization. But a new study suggests cannabinoids may actually help people wean ...
A man who woke from a coma to discover both his arms and legs had been amputated and part of his face removed has called for mandatory training on sepsis for NHS staff. Sepsis, or blood poisoning, is a rare but serious complication of an infection, which ...
(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 ...
Dueling bills introduced in the Legislature this year have either tried to remove the personal exemption or tried to expand exemptions. By Cronkite News, News Partner | May 21, 2019 1:53 pm ET ...
As of April 26, 2019, CDC had reported 704 cases of measles in the United States since the beginning of 2019, representing the largest number of cases reported in the country in a single year since 1994, when 963 cases occurred, and since measles was ...
Children who live in areas with bad air pollution are more likely to develop asthma, which is the most common chronic illness among young people. But when you clean up the air does that actually protect the health of kids? A study published Tuesday in ...
By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, May 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Interest in homemade sunscreens is hot, but many of these do-it-yourself brews lack effective sun protection, a new study warns. Researchers found that only ...
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). 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 ...
A new study examining Medicaid expansion and cancer screening finds that the five states and District of Columbia that first adopted Medicaid expansion saw larger increases in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening than those states that did not expand ...
By Alan Mozes. HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, May 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Interest in homemade sunscreens is hot, but many of these do-it-yourself brews lack effective sun protection, a new study warns. Researchers found that only about one-third ...
For twenty-five years, I've had to work through anxiety, depression and all sorts of mental health stuff. What have I learned? You need the right team to stay healthy. And just like any illness, it will likely start with some sort of medical intervention. But many times ...
SAN FRANCISCO — The ongoing debate over the risks and benefits of recently approved esketamine nasal spray (Spravato, Janssen Pharmaceuticals) for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) spilled over into a heated toe-to-toe discussion here at the ...
By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). 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 ...
There were still patches of snow in the woods when I found my first tick of the year crawling on my jeans. It was a tiny creature, no bigger than an apple seed, but its slow, deliberate crawl up my thigh put a fear in me that no other animal in Maine can.
By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, May 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The DASH diet's mission is to fight high blood pressure. But a new study suggests that the eating plan may also significantly lower the risk of heart failure in ...
By Amy Norton. HealthDay Reporter. 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 ...
Gone are the days of being asked "Smoking or non-smoking," when entering a restaurant. Smoking is now banned on airplanes, in malls, movie theaters and countless other public places. Now, a new generation has turned to technology for its fix. Electronic ...
TUESDAY, May 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Interest in homemade sunscreens is hot, but many of these do-it-yourself brews lack effective sun protection, a new study warns. Researchers found that only about one-third of homemade sunscreens on the ...
(CNN) As the number of American adults dying of cancer continues to decline, the number who are dying of heart disease is on the rise, according to a new report. Researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health ...
Neither egg consumption nor dietary cholesterol are associated with an increased risk for stroke, researchers report. Their analysis, in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, used health and diet data on 1,950 Finnish men ages 42 to 60. Over 21 years of ...
Rockland County Executive Ed Day speaks out for a bill encouraging vaccinations during a news conference in Albany on April 29, 2019. Jon Campbell, jcampbell1@gannett.com. CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE. ALBANY - Supporters ...
The Pennsylvania Department of Health is declaring a hepatitis A outbreak amid reports of 171 cases within the state since January 2018. Dr. Rachel Levine, the state's Secretary of Health, officially declared the outbreak on Monday. Neighboring states Ohio ...
Summer is fast approaching, and with warmer weather comes one annoying pest: Mosquitoes. Pest control company Orkin on Monday released its Top 50 Mosquito Cities list, which "ranks metro areas by the number of mosquito customers served from April 1, ...
Google engineers have developed a new AI program capable of diagnosing lung cancer in patients more accurately than most human doctors. In a study featured in the journal Nature Medicine, researchers trained a deep learning program to detect the ...
Despite a massive campaign by New York health officials urging people to vaccinate their children, the measles outbreak continues to worsen here in New York and nationally. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week that 880 new ...
By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, May 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Could a love for canines be contained in your genes? New research from Europe suggests that's so after comparing the genetic makeup of more than 35,000 ...
A fourth King County measles case in May was confirmed Tuesday by Public Health - Seattle and King County. In the new case, a woman in her 30s spent time at sites in King County before she knew she was contagious. Her case marks seven seven recent ...
Using virtual reality (VR) technology to improve health has several applications, including bettering the quality of life for people with dementia. A recent study shows how VR can help even those with advanced dementia disease like Alzheimer's disease.
Studies like these are crucial for public health officials and lawmakers, but future funding for them looks bleak. By Nicole Wetsman moments ago. boy using a breathing device at a doctor's office. Strict emissions and clean fuel rules in California helped to ...
One in five people will be affected by mental illness at some point in their life, according to the National Alliance on Mental Health. With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, Local 4 is dedicating special coverage in all newscasts Wednesday to this ...
The number of measles cases in King County continues to grow. A woman in her 30s is the seventh recently confirmed measles case in the county and the fourth person here to contract the virus this month. She likely came in contact with the virus at ...
Trash is a growing problem for residents in Los Angeles and as the garbage piles up, so do the rats, fueling concerns about flea-borne typhus, according to reports. Last October, after at least nine reports of the disease, Los Angeles officials cleaned up some ...
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported the state's first measles case in two years on Tuesday, adding Maine to the growing list of states affected by one the nation's most severe measles outbreak in decades. Maine is susceptible to ...
May 21 (UPI) -- New research suggests esketamine nasal spray, a new antidepressant, is safe and effective for patients who have failed to respond to other types of treatment. More than a third of people with depression experience treatment resistance.
If you like dogs, it may be in your genes. Swedish researchers used a database of 35,035 identical and fraternal twins born between 1926 and 1996. They gathered information on their dog ownership from government and kennel club registries. Identical twins ...
No media source currently available. 0:00 0:04:13 0:00. Direct link. 128 kbps | MP3 · 64 kbps | MP3. Pop-out player. The World Health Organization on Tuesday said tens of thousands of people are believed to be infected with dengue fever on La Réunion.
By Robert Preidt. HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, May 21, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Could a love for canines be contained in your genes? New research from Europe suggests that's so after comparing the genetic makeup of more than 35,000 twin pairs with ...
Researchers have developed a new type of opioid that accelerates recovery time from pain compared to morphine. It also doesn't have the side effect of increasing pain sensitivity, according to a new study with rats. Morphine and other opioid-based ...
It might give you the creepy-crawlies, but you almost certainly have tiny mites living in the pores of your face right now. They're known as Demodex or eyelash mites, and just about every adult human alive has a population living on them. The mostly ...
One of lung cancer's most lethal attributes is its ability to trick radiologists. Some nodules appear threatening but turn out to be false positives. Others escape notice entirely, and then spiral without symptoms into metastatic disease. On Monday, however ...
Hamilton, Ontario health officials report investigating an increasing trend in the number of newly diagnosed HIV cases, and invasive Group A strep (iGAS) cases among people who inject drugs in Hamilton. Public domain photo/Psychonaught. Between ...
When they aren't working or taking care of their autistic children, Melissa Eaton and Amanda Seigler are moles. Eaton, 39, a single mother from Salisbury, North Carolina, and Seigler, 38, a mom to six in Lake Worth, Florida, have spent much of their free time ...
The disruption of internal clocks seems to play a significant role in the explosion of metabolic diseases observed in recent decades, particularly diabetes. Scientists have improved understanding of the importance of day-night alternation on the effect of insulin ...
Holidays can be tricky. Some people may think of them as a time to get together with family and friends. Some may be happy about a chance to rest, relax or have a barbecue. Yet for others, a holiday may serve as a grim reminder of events they would like to ...
More than 600 people—most of them children, aged one month to 15 years—have tested positive for HIV in the southern Pakistani town of Ratto Dero, numerous news outlets have reported. While officials are still investigating the cause of the outbreak, health ...
(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 ...
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