As the population ages, the number of older Americans who die following a fall is rising. A study published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA found that for people over 75, the rate of mortality from falls more than doubled from 2000 to 2016. Researchers ...
For days, 2-year-old Jackson Oblisk had been running a high fever and his small body was covered in tiny red spots. His pediatrician had suspected it was a viral rash and had sent him home to recover, his mother said. But the toddler was not getting better; ...
(CNN) Our genomes contain two copies of the CCR5 gene. It is known that people who carry two defective copies of this gene are highly resistant to HIV. But this double mutation of the CCR5 gene, which a Chinese scientist intentionally edited into human ...
Posing as heroin users seeking help, researchers contacted hundreds of treatment clinics in U.S. states with the highest overdose death rates. The "secret shoppers" were denied appointments much of the time, especially if they said they were insured through ...
(CNN) Almost 2,000 cases of Ebola have been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as the central African nation struggles with the second largest outbreak of the disease in history. Health officials in the DRC said Sunday there were 1,994 reported ...
Measles cases have surged to 981 so far this year, the highest annual case count in nearly three decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The latest tally represents an increase of 41 measles cases since last week, and the ...
Cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are increasing in England, new figures show. In 2018, there were 447,694 new diagnoses of STIs made, a 5% increase on the 422,147 in 2017. Gonorrhoea increased the most - by 26% to 56,259 cases.
When is it a huge relief to hear you have a parasite lurking in your brain? When it's not a cancerous brain tumor. That was the recent experience of a woman in New York, 42-year-old Rachel Palma, who had gone to the doctor's office for some odd symptoms.
People living with HIV are at an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease, and treatment and prevention in this population should target both HIV-specific and general CV risk factors, a scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) said.
By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, June 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Older age raises the odds of many ills, but for adults with gout, it's the younger ones who have the highest risk for developing a serious blood clot, new research ...
What is believed to be the world's smallest newborn baby to survive entered the world nearly four months earlier than planned, weighing 8.6 ounces – about the size of a juice box. Baby Saybie was born at the Sharp Mary Birch Hospital in San Diego. She was ...
By Robert Preidt. HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, June 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Ever wonder why a drug that works for someone else doesn't seem to work for you? You might want to check your gut for the answer. Gut bacteria that process more than 150 ...
FILE - This July 23, 2018 file photo shows packets of buprenorphine, a drug which controls heroin and opioid cravings, in Greenfield, Mass. In a study that appears Monday, June 3, 2019, in Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers posing as heroin users ...
Sleep is such an integral component to our overall health, quite possibly as important as diet and exercise. (istock). 0. By Molly Kimball. Best of Molly Kimball: Nutrition columnist Molly Kimball will be on leave until Aug. 6. While she is away, we are revisiting ...
Those who eschew steak in favor of chicken because they think it's healthier may be able to put lean beef back on the menu. That's because new research, published Tuesday in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is raising questions about poultry and ...
Young women undergoing standard hormone therapy for breast cancer had better chances of survival when given a newer drug in addition to their current treatment. Researchers from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas said Novartis' Kisqali ...
For those in search of safe, non-drug sleep aids, sound machines are a popular choice. A National Sleep Foundation poll from 2012 found that 5% of Americans sleep with a "sound conditioner," which is a catchall term for a fan, phone app, or other ...
The U.S. just broke a 25-year-long record. We now have 981 measles cases in 2019, topping 1994's 963—and it's only June. But the bittersweet truth is that we're unlikely to break any more contemporary records, if only because the the early '90s were ...
When Jiankui He shocked the world last year by editing the genomes of twin girls, he offered the rationale that the CCR5-∆32 mutation would protect the babies from HIV infection. Not only was this reason widely denounced by the scientific community, but ...
A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) provides "pragmatic" recommendations on how to approach cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and management in the growing number of people living with HIV infection.
A genetic mutation thought to make people resistant to the virus that causes AIDS could also shorten their lives, according to a new study that has renewed concern over a Chinese experiment that created the world's first gene-edited babies. The study ...
A week after this year's second case of measles in Massachusetts was diagnosed, a state lawmaker from Haverhill filed a bill that would remove the religious exemption for vaccinating schoolchildren. State law requires children who are entering school to be ...
The black-legged tick, also known as the deer tick, can carry a variety of pathogens, including the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. 0. By The Washington Post. For days, 2-year-old Jackson Oblisk had been running a high fever and his small body was ...
What's considered optimum shape for people who are about to undergo cardiac surgery? Mortality in patients who had undergone heart bypass surgery was over four times higher in individuals with a high body fat mass, according to new research conducted ...
BOSTON - Beginning in the first trimester of pregnancy, the body begins to produce the hormone relaxin, which loosens the expectant mother's muscles, joints and ligaments to help her body accommodate a growing baby and prepare for birth. When Edward ...
Poor people with opioid use disorders may struggle to find doctors to prescribe the anti-addiction drug buprenorphine in U.S. states with the highest overdose death rates, a new study suggests. In 2018, researchers posing as patients called to schedule ...
A new blood test for better diagnosis of heart failure at a far earlier stage will be proposed in research presented at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference in Manchester today. Heart failure is a long-term condition that occurs when the heart is unable ...
The deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has surpassed 2,000 cases and is picking up speed. Interested in Ebola? Add Ebola as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Ebola news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Ebola. Add Interest. The number ...
Today the Ebola case count in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will likely surpass 2,000 cases, a new milestone ushered in by heavy transmission in May, by a good measure the most active month in this outbreak. Over the weekend, the ministry ...
White meat could carry the same heart health risks as red meat according to scientists who studied how beef and chicken affect cholesterol levels. The authors of a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concluded plant-based proteins ...
Until a bout of weakness hit a couple of weeks ago, 90-year-old Lillian Lyle was still showering on her own, dressing herself, and had certainly kept hold of her delightful sense of humor and zest for life. But Monday, from her bed at Mount Carmel Grove City ...
MONDAY, June 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Ever wonder why a drug that works for someone else doesn't seem to work for you? You might want to check your gut for the answer. Gut bacteria that process more than 150 medicines have been pinpointed by ...
Posing as heroin users seeking help, researchers contacted hundreds of treatment clinics in U.S. states with the highest overdose death rates. The "secret shoppers" were denied appointments much of the time, especially if they said they were insured through ...
Doctors performing emergency heart surgery in Australia were not expecting this type of complication – a flash fire that broke out in the patient's exposed chest cavity. The rare incident was made public at a medical conference in Austria during the weekend.
The World Health Organization has finally declared burnout a real syndrome with medical consequences. The condition, discussed in medical literature since the seventies, is well known and has affected millions. Treating burnout isn't so simple, and requires ...
The quest for a universal flu vaccine, one that provides long-lasting protection from multiple types of influenza, even those that might cause a pandemic, has moved a step closer. For the first time, scientists have shown that targeting a specific portion of the flu ...
MONDAY, June 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) A patient died Sunday during an outbreak of Legionnaires disease, a severe type of pneumonia, at Grove City, Mount Carmel Health System, the Associated Press reported. Dr. Richard Streck, the hospital's chief ...
A UCLA-led study has found that using a drug called ribociclib in combination with a common hormone therapy may help premenopausal women with the most common type of breast cancer live longer than if they only receive the hormone therapy. Ribociclib ...
CHICAGO — Newer drugs are substantially improving the chances of survival for some people with hard-to-treat forms of lung, breast and prostate cancer, doctors reported at the world's largest cancer conference.
(Reuters) - The United States recorded 41 new measles cases last week, bringing the year's total number of cases to 981 in the worst outbreak of the disease since 1992, federal health officials said on Monday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
Coffee lovers often find a dark little cloud of doubt dogging their morning pour—coffee is so good and so life-affirming, they think, there's no way that drinking the stuff can be good for their bodies. In particular, people have worried that imbibing several daily ...
Immunotherapy could help patients with head and neck cancer live longer, new research suggests. The drug pembrolizumab, used in combination with platinum chemotherapy, was found to extend survival among those whose disease had returned or spread ...
The frequency of downpours of heavy rain—which can lead to flash floods, devastation, and outbreaks of waterborne disease—has increased across the globe in the past 50 years, research led by the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of ...
Ticks are classified as small arachnids that require blood meals in order to complete their complex life cycles. They are scientifically classified as Arachnida, which is the same classification as spiders, and are notoriously known as transmitters of diseases ...
Antiretroviral therapy for patients with HIV has made the disease less fatal, but it has increased the rates of CVD in this patient population, according to an American Heart Association scientific statement published in Circulation. "Considerable gaps exist in our ...
A woman who thought she had a brain tumor was "relieved" to discover the lump was in fact a parasitic worm. Rachel Palma knew something was up when she started acting out of character. She would forgot words, and tried to call her dead relatives, ABC 7 ...
A new drug was found to prolong the lives of younger women suffering from a common form of advanced cancer. Their survival rates significantly improved after being treated with the medicine during an international clinical trial. During an annual meeting of ...
A six-year-old boy who died from meningitis might have survived with quicker diagnosis, an inquest heard. Oliver Hall, of Halesworth, Suffolk, died the day after he began showing symptoms in October 2017. His parents called their GP surgery, paramedics ...
The antidiabetic medication metformin reduces anxiety-like behaviors in male mice by increasing serotonin availability in the brain, according to a study published in JNeurosci. These findings could have implications for the treatment of patients with both ...
A few decades ago, high in the Italian Alps, a five-thousand-year-old mummy was found. Offered up from a melting glacier and discovered by unsuspecting hikers, Otzi the Iceman was remarkably preserved, frozen as he was in the snow for millennia. Carbon ...
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