As measles spread across the nation earlier this year, 71 residents of Vancouver, Wash., fell ill, most of them unvaccinated children. So state Rep. Paul Harris, a Republican representing the district, sponsored a measure to limit exemptions from immunization.
For the third time, the World Health Organization declined on Friday to declare the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a public health emergency, though the outbreak spread this week into neighboring Uganda and ranks as the second ...
Two people got very sick, and one died, during a trial of an experimental procedure known as fecal transplant, according to a statement issued Thursday from the Food and Drug Administration. As a result, the agency is suspending several clinical trials ...
The second largest Ebola outbreak in history has killed more than 1,300 people since it began in August last year and has now spread across the border from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Uganda. Doctors, aid workers and the government have been ...
BWERA, Uganda — The isolation ward for Ebola patients is a tent erected in the garden of the local hospital. Gloves are given out sparingly to health workers. And when the second person in this Uganda border town died after the virus outbreak spread from ...
Washington (CNN) US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed 5,200 adult immigrants in quarantine after being exposed to mumps or chicken pox, a dramatic jump from just a few months ago, the agency says. ICE has recorded cases of either ...
When you put someone else's poop in your intestines, what could possibly go wrong? Well, death, for one thing. A death is the reason why the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just issued a warning about fecal transplants or FMT, which stands for ...
A "root and branch" review of hospital food has been ordered by the health secretary after two more patient deaths were linked to an outbreak of listeria. Public Health England (PHE) confirmed on Friday the total number of deaths related to pre-packed ...
The World Health Organization has decided not to declare a global emergency over the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The WHO said Ebola was "very much an emergency" in the region, but it did not pose a global threat. However, it was ...
Cancer terrifies us. It just does. Especially those of us who grew up when most kinds of cancer meant certain death. And for us it hasn't seemed to matter that treatments and survival rates speak to the contrary. It still terrifies us. But maybe that's beginning to ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - A World Health Organization (WHO) advisory panel decided on Friday not to declare an international public health emergency over the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda, saying that the criteria had not been met. But in a statement, ...
WILMINGTON, Del. — Ticks don't just hope you walk by so they can latch on. They formally quest for a victim by crawling to the top of leafy vegetation all over Delaware. There, they wave their teeny arms in hopes of catching a ride to a delicious meal of blood.
An outbreak of the mumps virus in the U.S. government's crowded immigration detention facilities is adding a new strain to a system that the secretary of homeland security warned months ago had reached its "breaking point." Officials from Immigration and ...
When you think about rabies, you might consider dogs or raccoons to be the first ones to pass the viral disease, but according to a new report, you're more likely to get it from bats. Rabies is a deadly virus that, up until 1960, had been spread mainly through ...
By Cara Roberts Murez. HealthDay Reporter. FRIDAY, June 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- When eating healthy becomes an around-the-clock obsession, it could be a sign of trouble. An extreme preoccupation with clean eating is an eating order called ...
NEW YORK — Chips, soda and frozen pizzas tend to be full of salt, sugar and fat, but now scientists are trying to understand if there's something else about such processed foods that might be bad for us. Already, the spread of cheap, packaged foods has ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — As the federal government prepares to launch an ambitious initiative to end the HIV epidemic, the director of the Centers for Disease Control on Friday applauded an Alabama HIV clinic's commitment to providing health services to ...
Suicide rates have climbed among older adults, and new research suggests more can be done to support those living in long-term care facilities who may be at risk. Between 2003 and 2015, more than 2% of nearly 50,000 deaths among adults 55 and older ...
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo "does not meet the criteria for a Public Health Emergency of International Concern," the World Health Organization said Friday. The agency said that while it acknowledges the outbreak's heavy toll, ...
Specific patterns of brain activity are thought to underlie specific processes or computations important for various mental faculties, such as memory. One such "brain signal" that has received a lot of attention recently is known as a "sharp wave ripple"—a short, ...
By Jason Bittel | Special to The Washington Post. 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 ...
Sam Seidel, 52, had never had pollen allergies. But recently he came down with a nagging throat cough, right about the time a "sheen of yellow haze" descended on his gray Chevrolet Volt. A coincidence? Maybe. But Seidel was curious. Perhaps his ...
Juli* first began thinking about plastic surgery for her son shortly after he was born. He had a condition called Stahl's ear, which essentially caused his ear to look folded over and misshapen. When he was 7, his family decided he should have surgery to fix the ...
Laurel Austin reportedly showed police a YouTube video of Kerri Rivera discussing the harmful chlorline dioxide solution. Screenshot: Character Driven (YouTube). Search YouTube for "Miracle Mineral Solution" or "MMS" and you will find a trove of videos ...
A Salmonella infection in a young man who had traveled to China has led to the first US finding of an unusual variant of a gene that confers resistance to colistin, a last-resort antibiotic, according to a recent report in the Journal of Medical Microbiology.
FRIDAY, June 14, 2019 (American Heart Association News) -- The impact of hormone therapy on the heart health of transgender men and women has been the subject of several studies published within the last year. But medical experts and researchers ...
In men undergoing a first prostate biopsy, the optimal method for detecting clinically significant cancer (grade group 2 or higher) is the combination of systematic biopsy and targeted biopsy of lesions visible on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), according to ...
The impact of hormone therapy on the heart health of transgender men and women has been the subject of several studies published within the last year. But medical experts and researchers aren't ready to sound the alarm just yet. "We have to recognize that ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — As the federal government prepares to launch an ambitious initiative to end the HIV epidemic, the director of the Centers for Disease Control on Friday applauded an Alabama HIV clinic's commitment to providing health services ...
A woman who suffered 13 miscarriages in 10 years finally had her miracle baby after taking steroids to strengthen her womb. Laura Worsley, 35, lost every baby she conceived, with many pregnancies lasting just a few weeks. But she never gave up hope of ...
The World Health Organization is expected on Friday to declare that an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus rampaging through two countries in Central Africa represents an international health emergency, a move that would be intended spur international ...
Major League Baseball does a big tie-in with prostate cancer to try to encourage families and men to make sure they're taking care of themselves and to ensure that they don't have a silent killer. I've been very public on the air for a long time about having ...
Here's a little morsel of horror to carry you through the weekend. Scientists at North Carolina State University say they've discovered disease-causing Salmonella bacteria in the U.S. that can resist one of the few remaining antibiotics available for certain ...
Chips, soda and frozen pizzas tend to be full of salt, sugar and fat, but now scientists are trying to understand if there's something else about such processed foods that might be bad for us. Already, the spread of cheap, packaged foods has been linked to ...
Vaccinating against the common infant infection rotavirus not only cuts a child's odds of getting sick, it might also prevent them from developing Type 1 diabetes later in life, new research suggests. Infants who got all of the recommended doses of the "stomach ...
FRIDAY, June 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccinating against the common infant infection rotavirus not only cuts a child's odds of getting sick, it might also prevent them from developing type 1 diabetes later in life, new research suggests. Infants who got all ...
A mom took to Facebook to warn parents about a mark on her son's arm that signaled a potentially fatal disease. The mother, Alexandra Ruddy, posted a photo of that mark that left her with an uneasy feeling about her son's health. This gut instinct led her to ...
So you've been hiking or camping, and you notice a tiny bump on your skin; it doesn't seem like a mosquito bite, but it could certainly be from another type of insect. If you're in an area where ticks are prevalent, your mind might jump to worries about the ...
More cases of zombie deer disease, officially called chronic wasting disease, or CWD, have spread across Pennsylvania. Related >>> 'Zombie deer' disease found in 24 states, could spread to humans. Since 2018, 123 additional free-ranging deer have ...
New York state's law ending religious exemptions from vaccines will have a profound effect in Rockland, where the county's battle to contain a historic measles outbreak has been met by court challenges and stubborn pockets of resistance. Attorney Michael ...
Salmonella outbreaks have occurred in 41 states during the last month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The culprits are live chicks and ducklings. Advertisement. So far, 40 people have been hospitalized with salmonella with ...
(CNN) -- US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed 5,200 adult immigrants in quarantine after being exposed to mumps or chicken pox, a dramatic jump from just a few months ago, the agency says. ICE has recorded cases of either mumps or ...
A 4-week-old baby in the U.K. was left fighting for his life in the hospital for over two months this fall after his mother claims he contracted the herpes virus from a kiss at a friend's christening. Ashleigh White, of South Yorkshire, said she is sharing her son Noah ...
As chronic wasting disease strikes animals across a widening territory, concern is growing among scientists and public health officials that the disease might leap to humans. Written By: Washington Post | Jun 14th 2019 - 10am. AddThis Sharing Buttons.
TOLONO, Ill. (AP) — There was a time when Beth Swigart didn't pay that much attention to West Nile virus and the annual warnings about mosquito bites. That's changed since she got West Nile virus herself last fall and was ill for months.
London (AP) -- The British government has ordered a review of hospital food after five patients died in a listeria outbreak linked to sandwiches and salads. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Saturday he wants "a radical new approach" to the food served in ...
Measles is a common disease throughout the world. It is highly contagious, and occasionally it is deadly or permanently affects those who catch it. The reason it is rare in the United States is because we have a high percentage of the population immunized ...
It's high time for psychedelic science. Ever since drugs like psilocybin, the active ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms, appeared to help quell anxiety in cancer patients several years ago, the compounds have seen something of a resurgence of interest ...
Health officials have found the first evidence of West Nile virus in Oakland County so far this year, representatives reported Friday. A mosquito pool collected in Pontiac tested positive for the virus, but no confirmed human cases of the virus have been recorded ...
A mother who suffered 13 miscarriages before having a baby girl has thanked fertility experts for making her "little miracle" possible. Laura Worsley and her husband David, had been trying unsuccessfully for a family since 2008, before their hope of a child ...
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