It's only been a few years since researchers and public health officials determined that just two doses of the HPV vaccine, instead of three, are sufficient to protect people from the infection that can cause multiple cancers and genital warts, as long as they ...
About 1 in 10 older adults engages in binge drinking, putting them at greater risk for falls and other medical problems. That's according to new research published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. "We focus so much on young ...
When a baby's on the way, pregnant women and their families may consider moving to a new home in search of more space or a better location. But a new study suggests that, in some cases, moving during pregnancy may raise the risk of preterm birth.
One month after an E. coli outbreak shut down all animal exhibits at the San Diego County Fair, three families have filed claims against the government agency that runs the annual event. They allege more could have been done to prevent the serious ...
Officials in Congo on Tuesday said a second Ebola case had been confirmed in Goma, a city of more than 2 million people whose first confirmed case in this yearlong outbreak was reported earlier this month. There appeared to be no link between the man's ...
(Reuters Health) - Women who experience sexual dysfunction after menopause may feel more desire and pleasure when they use testosterone treatments, a recent study suggests. Researchers reviewed data from 36 trials with 8,480 participants, most of ...
The man who became the second confirmed Ebola case in Congo's major crossroads city of Goma has died, officials said Wednesday, adding that he may never have known he had the virus. Interested in Ebola? Add Ebola as an interest to stay up to date on ...
People who exercise in the morning seem to lose more weight than people completing the same workouts later in the day, according to a new study of workouts and waistlines. The findings help shed light on the vexing issue of why some people shed ...
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, July 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers are closing in on the toll of childhood cancer, finding it stole 11.5 million years of healthy life lost worldwide in 2017. Premature death took 97% of that toll, and ...
(CNN) A second case of Ebola has been confirmed in Goma, a major transit hub in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the Rwandan border, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). "Sad news coming from Goma, DRC -- the second Ebola case ...
(CNN) When heartburn or ulcer pain strikes, drugs can target stomach acid to calm bellies and offer relief. But a new study suggests the medications may come with a hive-inducing side effect: allergies. After analyzing health insurance data from more than 8 ...
Bangladesh is facing its worst-ever dengue fever outbreak as hospitals are flooded with patients, putting a severe strain on the country's poor emergency services. By Associated Press, Wire Service Content July 31, 2019. By Associated Press, Wire Service ...
One of the most extensively studied genes in cancer, TP53 is well known for its role as a tumor suppressor. It senses cellular stress or damage, and in response stops cell division or initiates cell death, thereby preventing a damaged cell from reproducing.
(CNN) Several dozen patients with sickle cell disease will be among the first in the United States treated for a genetic disease with the experimental gene-editing technology CRISPR. "This is an extraordinary time" in the treatment of sickle cell disease, said ...
Public health officials are worried that the year-old Ebola epidemic is spiraling out of control, and that the international response lacks either the urgency or funding to contain rampant transmission. Thursday marks a year since the latest outbreak in the ...
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, July 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Many U.S. doctors are much less likely to recommend cough and cold medicines for young children ever since experts advised against it in 2008, new research shows.
High maternal blood sugar levels and BMI are risk factors for stillbirth in mothers with diabetes, according to a new study in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes), with babies at the lowest and highest weights being ...
(CNN) College students have long been criticized for drinking way too much alcohol in way too short a time. But they're not the only ones. A new study finds binge drinking to be a habit among some senior citizens, too. Just more than 10% of older adults binge ...
(Reuters Health) - A growing proportion of American men who have sex with men know they can take a daily pill to avoid infection with HIV and more of them are using it, a U.S. study suggests. So-called HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is highly ...
Childhood cancer accounted for 11.5 million years of healthy life lost in 2017, with lower-resource nations facing a significantly larger burden than high-income countries, according to an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study published in The Lancet ...
By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, July 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- There are numerous drugs to treat digestive woes caused by heartburn or stomach ulcers. But solving one health problem may be causing another. New research from ...
(Reuters Health) - Poorer patients in the U.S. may be less likely to get their blood pressure under control, even when they are participating in a clinical trial where medication and doctor's visits are provided free of charge, a new study finds. Compared to ...
Bangladesh is facing its worst-ever dengue fever outbreak as hospitals are flooded with patients, putting a severe strain on the country's already overwhelmed medical system. The mosquito-borne viral infection has spread across the country with 61 out of 64 ...
A pair of new journal articles by researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine indicate that both genetic and environmental factors play significant roles in the onset of vitiligo, an autoimmune disease that results in the loss of color in blotches of ...
Scientists in the U.K. and Denmark have identified a link between fetal exposure to high levels of estrogen hormones during pregnancy, and the likelihood of autism. Reporting in Molecular Psychiatry, the researchers say their analysis of samples held within ...
What does the world lose when a child gets cancer? Out of 2.2 billion children worldwide, more than 416,500 children are diagnosed and 142,300 are estimated to die from the disease each year. Though in hard numbers it's a relatively small portion, each life ...
There's a very successful little blue pill on the market. It's highly effective, benefits thousands of people, and it can transform your love life. No, it's not Viagra. It's Truvada, also known as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and it is 99 percent effective at ...
Statins are known to reduce the risk of further problems in patients of any age who have already suffered heart problems or stroke. However, until now it has not been clear how effective their use is in preventing such events occurring in healthy people aged ...
Almost every health article about plant-based foods most likely has blood pressure somewhere hidden within the content. This indirect commenting doesn't mean it's not important, it just means that plant-based foods are really great at maintaining healthy ...
New research by a team of European scientists indicates that the rise of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in Europe is being fueled mainly by four strains that are being spread among hospital patients. In a study yesterday in Nature Microbiology, ...
Some 5,400 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in Finland every year. Although in most cases prostate cancer can be cured, approximately 900 men every year die of it. Treatment recommendations for prostate cancer are largely based on the cancer's ...
More than a tenth of adults age 65 and older currently binge drink, putting them at risk for a range of health problems, according to a study by researchers at NYU School of Medicine and the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research (CDUHR) at NYU ...
Competition between brands may not be effective in lowering drug prices in the United States, suggesting that significant structural reforms will be needed to address rapidly increasing drug prices, according to study findings published in PLOS Medicine.
TUESDAY, July 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Here's yet another downside to cigarette smoking: Treatment for blood vessel abnormalities in the lungs is less likely to be successful if patients are smokers, a new study finds. These abnormal connections ...
The Legionnaires' outbreak linked to the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel appears to be much wider than previously thought, with state health officials reporting 57 more "probable cases" Tuesday. The Georgia Department of Public Health announced 55 probable ...
In the past few years, a team of scientists from the University of Cambridge have explored the correlation between testosterone and autism, with some evidence to boot. But now, new research is showing there may be a stronger link between autism and ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh is facing its worst-ever dengue fever outbreak as hospitals are flooded with patients, putting a severe strain on the country's poor emergency services. The mosquito-borne viral infection has spread across the country with ...
When heartburn or ulcer pain strikes, drugs can target stomach acid to calm bellies and offer relief. But a new study suggests the medications may come with a hive-inducing side effect: allergies. After analyzing health insurance data from more than 8 million ...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Officials in Congo on Tuesday said a second Ebola case had been confirmed in Goma, the city of more than 2 million people whose first confirmed case in this yearlong outbreak was reported earlier this month. There appeared to ...
The Legionnaires' outbreak linked to the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel appears to be much wider than previously thought, with state health officials reporting 57 more "probable cases" Tuesday. >> Read more trending news. The Georgia Department of Public Health ...
KINSHASA, Congo — A Congolese official says the man who became the second confirmed Ebola case in the city of Goma has died. Ebola response coordinator Jean-Jacques Muyembe confirmed the death on Wednesday morning, a day after the case was ...
New cases of tick-borne Lyme disease in the UK may be three times higher than previous estimates suggest, and might top 8000 in 2019, based on these figures, concludes research published in the online journal BMJ Open. Lyme disease is a bacterial ...
Florida health officials announce uptick in mosquito-borne virus that causes brain swelling originally appeared on abcnews.go.com. Health officials in Central Florida are warning of an increase in cases of Eastern equine encephalitis, a rare mosquito-borne ...
James Mitchell and his family were taking their usual trip to Colonial Beach, Virginia — one they have made many times before. However, while heading to Pennsylvania the next day, Mitchell had to be rushed to the hospital after he began to feel unwell, the ...
More than 1,000 people in Bangladesh, the majority of whom are children, have been diagnosed with dengue in the last 24 hours, amid the country's worst outbreak on record, a senior health ministry official said Tuesday. Eight people have died since ...
Women who moved during the first three months of pregnancy had a higher risk of low birth weight infants and preterm delivery, according to a population-based cohort study. After adjusting for multiple confounders, women who relocated to a new home ...
Researchers are closing in on the toll of childhood cancer, finding it stole 11.5 million years of healthy life lost worldwide in 2017. Premature death took 97 percent of that toll, and impaired quality of life about 3 percent, the study found. "Estimating the years of ...
The state of Missouri requires students are up-to-date on specific immunizations before attending school each year. To help St. Charles County students meet these requirements and to minimize the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases in our community, ...
When two studies attempting to identify new colon cancer treatment methods found different results, a researcher at the University of Arizona Cancer Center was asked to help settle the uncertainty. Curtis Thorne, Ph.D., an assistant professor, cellular and ...
Here's yet another downside to cigarette smoking: Treatment for blood vessel abnormalities in the lungs is less likely to be successful if patients are smokers, a new study finds. These abnormal connections between arteries and veins in the lung are called ...
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