[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] ALBANY — Lawmakers in New York, the epicenter of the nation's measles outbreak, voted on Thursday to end religious exemptions for immunizations, overcoming opposition by ...
Two patients contracted severe infections, and one of them died, from fecal transplants that contained drug-resistant bacteria, the Food and Drug Administration reported on Thursday. As a result, the agency is halting a number of clinical trials until the ...
Jeannine Fleegle reached into a black garbage bag, pulled out a severed deer head, and placed it on a folding table smeared with blood and fur. "This is no one's favorite time of year," Fleegle said, picking up a scalpel. It was a chilly morning, and Fleegle, ...
New York officially ended religious exemptions for school vaccines Thursday as the state grapples with its largest measles outbreak in years. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) signed the legislation into law Thursday evening after it passed in the state's Senate and ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) should and is likely to declare an international emergency over the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has now spread to Uganda, experts said as a WHO advisory panel met ...
Uganda's exposure to Ebola infection from the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo appeared to have increased on Thursday, as the death toll rose to two and three suspected cases were reported in a Ugandan border hospital. The number of people ...
BWERA, Uganda — The Congolese pastor who is thought to have caused the Ebola outbreak's spread into Uganda was unknown to health officials before he died of the disease, the World Health Organization's emergencies chief said Thursday.
When Enrique Galvan was growing up in Paraguay, other children called him a monster. When he was a toddler, a rare genetic disorder called neurofibromatosis was diagnosed, and it caused benign tumors to form on his nerve tissue and create what ...
KARAMBI, Uganda — At last, the van with the Ebola victim's coffin arrived. The woman's relatives were relieved. But a small group of young people hissed in anger. They watched the burial team carefully put on protective suits, itching for a fight. They grabbed ...
BWERA, Uganda — The Latest on the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda (all times local):. 7:45 p.m.. The World Health Organization says there's no evidence Ebola is spreading within Uganda after the deadly virus crossed the border from Congo this ...
Updated at 11:13 p.m. ET. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Thursday ending vaccination exemptions based on religious beliefs, the latest attempt to address the growing measles outbreak, the worst the U.S. has experienced in decades. Cuomo ...
By Steven Reinberg. HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, June 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A new study supports the notion that a drug used to control epilepsy and other disorders could make some young people more prone to suicide. The medicine ...
The Latest on the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda (all times local):. 10:15 p.m.. The Congolese Health Ministry says another child has died of Ebola, bringing the death toll to three within the same family that had recently traveled from Congo to Uganda.
The statistics are grim: Black women in the U.S. are less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, but significantly more likely to die from it, than white women. But a new study from the American Cancer Society indicates U.S.-born black women have as much ...
One person has died after receiving a fecal transplant containing drug-resistant bacteria, the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday. The FDA is warning health care providers that the use of the so-called fecal microbiota for transplantation (FMT) ...
(CNN) A Scottish nurse who fought off Ebola has given birth to twins, telling those who have suffered that "there is a future" after the disease. Pauline Cafferkey, 43, delivered two boys in Glasgow, Scotland on Tuesday. She became ill with the viral disease in ...
LONDON, June 14 (Reuters) - The number of people to die from a listeria outbreak in British hospitals has risen to five from three, Public Health England (PHE) said on Friday. The agency said that since the outbreak it had reviewed earlier cases and ...
The concept of forest bathing, or shinrin yoku, has gotten a lot of attention in the last few years, as research has suggested that it really does seem to confer health benefits, both mental and physical. A new study in from the University of Exeter tries to home in ...
In a bold rejection of the widespread sentiment—and regulations in many countries—that noe should alter the genome of a human embryo and transfer it to a woman, Russian geneticist Denis Rebrikov last week went public with his plans to become the ...
The trillions of microorganisms that form the gut microbiota contain a treasure trove of enzymes. These directly modify and metabolize dietary components, drugs, and toxins that humans ingest. Although this is often beneficial, the gut microbiota can modify ...
The head of a hunted deer lies on a table during an inspection by Pennsylvania wildlife biologists. MUST CREDIT: Jason Bittel. 0. By The Washington Post. Jeannine Fleegle reached into a black garbage bag, pulled out a severed deer head, and placed it on ...
Childbirth is the most common reason for hospitalization in the U.S., but when hospitals cut services in rural areas, obstetric units are often among the first to go. Rural communities are losing access to hospital maternity care at an alarming rate, with serious ...
HIV incidence among African women did not differ significantly by method of contraception used, a randomized trial found. While fewer women overall in the group randomized to the contraceptive implant acquired HIV infection, there was no significant ...
Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who twice survived the deadly Ebola virus, has given birth to twin sons. The 43-year-old worked as a volunteer in Sierra Leone, where an epidemic killed almost 4,000 people, in 2014. Her husband Robert Softley Gale, ...
Swallowing a drug can tilt the gut-brain axis, alleviating the symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's. Yet the axis can resist tilting as though its orientation were maintained by hidden sources of inertia. Suspected inertial dampeners ...
THURSDAY, June 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A new study supports the notion that a drug used to control epilepsy and other disorders could make some young people more prone to suicide. The medicine, pregabalin (Lyrica), comes from a class of drugs ...
Excess weight and body fat cause a range of heart and blood vessel diseases, according to the first study to investigate this using a method called Mendelian randomisation. In particular, the study published in the European Heart Journal [1] today (Friday), ...
THURSDAY, June 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Spending just a couple of hours a week enjoying nature may do your body and mind some good, a new study suggests. The study, of nearly 20,000 adults in England, found that people who spent at least two ...
The first thing folks think about with rabies is four-legged critters -- dogs, raccoons, skunks or foxes. But the most dangerous rabies threat you'll face right now is dangling overhead somewhere, waiting to flutter down and get entwined in your hair. Bats are ...
Miami-Dade County has begun distributing more than a quarter million packets of smelly bite-sized packets containing a liquid rabies vaccine. They're designed for wildlife to sniff out and eat, which could help ward off another rabies outbreak this year.
A woman who contracted hepatitis C said she was called "paranoid" by a doctor after expressing concerns about blood transfusion safety. Lesley McEvoy told the Infected Blood Inquiry she had a transfusion in 1985 when she had a haemorrhage following the ...
By Steven Reinberg. HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, June 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Is that second serving of steak or extra strip of bacon worth shaving time off your life? That's a question researchers want you to ponder, because their new study ...
(Adds CEO and analyst comments). By Saumya Joseph. June 14 (Reuters) - Enanta Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Friday its treatment for a highly contagious respiratory infection met the main goal of reducing virus levels in the body in a mid-stage study.
Editor's note: "Need to Know" is a series inspired by common forum questions and comments from readers. Have a comment or question about MS? Visit our forum. This week's question is inspired by the forum topic "How the Blood Brain Barrier May Thwart ...
In 2015, a group of researchers hypothesized that our collective love of Facebook surveys could be harnessed for serious genetic studies. Today, the Genes for Good project (@genesforgood) has engaged more than 80,000 Facebook users, collected 27,000 ...
FRIDAY, June 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A face-lift for Father's Day, anyone? It could happen: A new report finds many more men are taking advantage of the same plastic surgeries that have long been associated with women. The midlife decision by men ...
Teva Pharmaceuticals this week expanded its recall of losartan potassium tablets after detecting a possible human carcinogen in the blood pressure medication. The Israel-based drugmaker recalled six more lots of losartan potassium that contained ...
Mounting evidence continues to suggest eating too much red meat — such as bacon and hot dogs — is linked with health problems. A new study finds that changes in your red-meat-eating habits can be tied to your risk of early death. An increase in red meat ...
"Orthorexia is really more than just healthy eating," said researcher Jennifer Mills. "It's healthy eating taken to the extreme, where it's starting to cause problems for people in their lives and starting to feel quite out of control." By. Cara Roberts Murez, HealthDay ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — When AKeem Rollins' doctor recommended he start taking PrEP, the once-daily HIV prevention pill, Rollins was interested until he learned it would cost him nearly $2,000 for a month's supply. "My heart stopped," recalled Rollins, 30.
Adolescents who take pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, for HIV prevention may experience a loss of bone mineral density during treatment. Most patients can experience partial or full recovery of BMD within 48 weeks after discontinuing the medication, but ...
A new study supports the notion that a drug used to control epilepsy and other disorders could make some young people more prone to suicide. The medicine, pregabalin (Lyrica), comes from a class of drugs called gabapentinoids. Besides their use against ...
Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a gene that gives Salmonella resistance to antibiotics of last resort in a sample taken from a human patient in the U.S. The find is the first evidence that the gene mcr-3.1 has made its way into the ...
The World Health Organization emergency committee will decide Friday whether to declare a raging Ebola epidemic an international threat, after an outbreak that began in Democratic Republic of Congo crossed into Uganda. The WHO panel, which was ...
June 13 (UPI) -- States currently use three criteria to screen out people who are prohibited from owning a firearm, with a new study suggesting one is more effective than the others at preventing shooting deaths. Gun violence is lower in states that require ...
Unsafe, but common, practices such as reusing drips and syringes caused hundreds of Pakistani children to be infected with HIV, according to a World Health Organization team investigating an outbreak in a poor southeastern town. The WHO's preliminary ...
Excess weight and body fat cause a range of heart and blood vessel diseases, according to the first study to investigate this using a method called Mendelian randomisation. In particular, the study published in the European Heart Journal today, shows that as ...
A mumps outbreak at the Harris County jail in Houston has forced staff to isolate 14 symptomatic people and quarantine a few hundred other inmates, officials said Thursday. Of the 11 inmates and three medical staff members put in isolation, seven are ...
NEW YORK — Mounting evidence continues to suggest that eating too much red meat — such as bacon and hot dogs — is linked with health problems. A new study finds that changes in your red-meat-eating habits can be tied to your risk of early death.
The number of mosquitos that are testing positive for West Nile virus in the Coachella Valley has reached an all-time high. West Nile Virus is the leading cause of mosquito-borne diseases in the United States. It is most commonly spread to people through the ...
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