The medieval plague known as the Black Death is making headlines this month. In Mongolia, a couple died of bubonic plague on May 1 after reportedly hunting marmots, large rodents that can harbor the bacterium that causes the disease, and eating the ...
African-American, Native American and Alaska Native women die of pregnancy-related causes at a rate about three times higher than those of white women, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Tuesday. Sixty percent of all ...
Hundreds of women die preventable deaths of complications from pregnancy each year in the United States, even weeks or months after childbirth, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health experts say recognizing ...
For days, the dusty roads of a small town in Mongolia's westernmost province were largely deserted. "After the quarantine [was announced], not many people — even locals — were in the streets for fear of catching the disease," Sebastian Pique, an American ...
Several Los Angeles police officers at the department's West Valley station in Reseda may have been exposed to MRSA, a type of staph bacteria that causes a highly contagious infection resistant to many antibiotics, officials said Tuesday. It is not clear how ...
As aerospace companies vow to fill Earth's orbit with thousands of new satellites over the next decade, industry experts say it's time to grade these operators on their efforts to keep space a safe and sustainable place. A rating system could keep companies ...
SHANGHAI — Patient Number One is a thin man, with a scabby face and bouncy knees. His head, shaved in preparation for surgery, is wrapped in a clean, white cloth. Years of drug use cost him his wife, his money and his self-respect, before landing him in ...
By Amy Norton. HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, May 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Artificial intelligence is the hot new trend in medicine, and now new research suggests it could help doctors better predict a woman's breast cancer risk. The study is the latest ...
(Reuters Health) - Drinking water that is contaminated with even moderate levels of arsenic may lead to harmful thickening of the heart's main chamber walls, a new U.S. study suggests. Researchers who analyzed arsenic levels from more than 1,000 adults ...
Deb Horning, a survivor of a rare form of acute leukemia, never leaves her house without hand sanitizer, wipes and a face mask. She recently stopped into her son's high school to ask what percentage of students had been vaccinated against measles.
By EJ Mundell. HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, May 6, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Men who take medicines for an enlarged prostate can have years-long delays in their diagnosis of prostate cancer and more advanced prostate cancer when they're diagnosed, ...
(CNN) Couples are having less sex than in the previous two decades, new UK research says -- but the number of people wanting more is rising. A survey found that British people who are married or living with a partner are having sex less often, driving an ...
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, May 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Artificial intelligence is the hot new trend in medicine, and now new research suggests it could help doctors better predict a woman's breast cancer risk. The study ...
Patient Number One is a thin man, with a scabby face and bouncy knees. His head, shaved in preparation for surgery, is wrapped in a clean, white cloth. Years of drug use cost him his wife, his money and his self-respect, before landing him in this drab yellow ...
(CNN) People around the world are increasingly bending their elbows. Between 1990 and 2017, per capita adult alcohol consumption increased by nearly 0.7 liters (about the same in quarts) to 6.5 liters (6.9 quarts) annually, new research indicates.
Three relatives of Robert Kennedy Jr. lashed out at the son of the former senator, calling his anti-vaccination advocacy "wrong" and "dangerous," in an op-ed published Wednesday. In a Politico column, Kennedy's niece, Maeve Kennedy McKean, and his ...
Men receiving a 5-alpha reductase inhibitor (5-ARI) for treatment of benign prostatic hypertrophy who developed prostate cancer were more likely to have a delay in diagnosis as well as worse outcomes than non-users, a population-based cohort study found.
SHANGHAI – The sound of doctors boring through his skull to feed electrodes deep into his brain made Yan tremble. "The drill was like bzzzzzzz," he later recalled. "The moment of drilling is the most terrible." Yan is a methamphetamine addict. The hope is ...
A new study from researchers at the University of Colorado has identified that nail salons have higher levels of some harmful and cancer-causing chemicals than auto garages and oil refineries. The study, published in the journal Environmental Pollution, ...
According to the latest numbers, roughly 9 million Americans — 4% of U.S. adults — use prescription sleep aids, or medications that can help with insomnia and other sleep issues. And now, some of the most popular prescription sleep drugs must carry ...
Getting vaccinated against measles is not only religiously acceptable, but also a religious obligation, according to an expert on health law, ethics, and Jewish studies. The measles vaccine (which is typically combined with mumps and rubella—known as the ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - World Health Organization experts recommended on Tuesday a dramatic expansion of vaccination against Ebola in Congo after a surge in cases showed that the strategy of vaccinating those known to be exposed to the disease was no ...
A Mongolian couple died of the bubonic plague -- reportedly after eating raw marmot -- prompting a six-day quarantine that left a number of tourists stranded in the region. The couple had consumed the raw meat and kidney of a marmot, believed by some to ...
Bloodied white mesh covers the head of a methamphetamine user named Yan on Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, three days after he had a deep brain stimulation device implanted as part of a clinical trial at Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai, China. The hope is that DBS ...
Today SAGE, the World Health Organization's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts, released new guidelines to address several growing concerns about vaccination strategies currently being used in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak.
As melanoma cases continue to rise sharply, Americans are being urged to get screened early for this deadliest of skin cancers. But some dermatologists question whether screening people without symptoms has resulted in overdiagnosing melanoma, ...
Measles outbreaks are continuing to grow in New York City, with 43 new cases bringing the latest confirmed total to 466, according to city health authorities. Nine of those 43 cases are new infections that happened in the last week, according to the data ...
The Arizona state Senate on Monday passed a resolution declaring pornography a public health crisis. The measure, which was first introduced by state Rep. Michelle Udall (R), calls on lawmakers to condemn pornography's ills and declare it a public health ...
Three Los Angeles police officers have been likely infected with MRSA at the department's West Valley station in Reseda, and it's unknown how many others have been exposed to the bacteria, an agency source told KTLA on Tuesday. LAPD has not officially ...
(CNN) May is Mental Health Awareness Month -- a time for renewed focus on mental health. It is a critical health problem in the U.S. according to the Department of Health. An estimated 46 million American adults experience mental illness in a given year but ...
Americans have every right to be alarmed about the outbreak of measles in pockets of our country with unusually high rates of unvaccinated citizens, especially children. Right now, officials in 22 states are grappling with a resurgence of the disease, which ...
A microscopic video of the human immune system in action reveals how our bodies blow tiny holes in foreign bacteria, while leaving our own cells intact. The video and study, published yesterday (May 6) in the journal Nature Communications, offers the ...
Health officials in Seattle are warning about a Canadian traveler who passed through popular tourist spots in late April while infected with measles. The patient, described to be a male in his 40s, had visited New York and Japan before arriving in the King ...
More U.S. women are dying from pregnancy-related causes, and more than half of those deaths are preventable, government health officials said in a report Tuesday. Although these deaths are rare — about 700 a year — they have been rising for decades, ...
Black and Native women die at a much higher rate from pregnancy-related causes than white women do, a new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report finds. They were among the 700 women who typically die each year from ...
Marking the first federal collaboration report of its kind on US zoonotic disease threats, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its partners have released a top priority list of eight diseases that includes influenza, salmonellosis, plague, ...
The Oregon state House passed a bill Monday that would limit the options for parents to opt out of vaccinating their children, including on religious or philosophical grounds. House Bill 3063 passed the Democratic-controlled House on Monday in a 35-25 vote, ...
As the debate over the health impact of sweetened beverages continues, some research studies are funded by beverage-makers themselves. And several clauses in contracts between Coca-Cola and health researchers at public universities in the U.S. and ...
Amid a worsening outbreak, a panel of experts said today that the Ebola vaccination campaign in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC, should be expanded to include more people and potentially a second vaccine. WHO's Strategic Advisory Group ...
When Cynthia Bulik started studying eating disorders back in the early 1980s, what she read in the scientific literature clashed with what she saw in the clinic. At the time, theories about the causes of these conditions were focused primarily on explanations ...
TUESDAY, May 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Stigma regarding mental health could be disappearing in the United States, a new survey finds. In the online poll of more than 1,000 adults, 87% said a mental disorder is nothing to be ashamed of, and 86% said ...
May 7 marks the 21st annual World Asthma Day — a day during which medical societies, advocacy groups and health care providers renew their commitment to finding effective treatments for a chronic condition that profoundly affects quality of life for millions ...
Pregnancy-related deaths are rising in the United States and the main risk factor is being black, according to new reports that highlight racial disparities in care during and after childbirth. Black women, along with Native Americans and Alaska natives, are ...
The bounty of research funding provided by companies such as Coca-Cola to universities and elsewhere may come with some major strings attached, according to an investigation out Tuesday. The paper's authors describe evidence of Coca-Cola crafting ...
Just one day of slathering on sunscreen is enough for several chemicals in the product to enter the bloodstream, according to a new study from the Food and Drug Administration. The study, published Monday, was small — they conducted testing on just 24 ...
HOUSTON (AP) — The number of people in the state who chose to not immunize their children for non-medical reasons has jumped this past school year despite a record-breaking measles outbreak in the U.S., according to a Texas Department of Health ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released statistics on Tuesday that indicate that pregnancy deaths in the US are increasing. What also concerns experts is that the majority of pregnancy deaths in the US are preventable. According to CDC ...
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Heavy fighting between the army and local militiamen in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola-stricken city of Butembo killed at least nine people on Wednesday, the mayor said. Butembo is one ...
DALLAS, Texas — Young adults free of diabetes and cardiovascular disease developed heart damage after only five years of exposure to low-to-moderate levels of arsenic commonly found in groundwater. This was the finding of a study published Tuesday in ...
Research led by scientists at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston has found that fibromyalgia (FM) pain can be reduced dramatically by treating patients using the antidiabetic drug metformin. The researchers' studies, reported in ...
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