"This is not a happy anniversary," says Yap Boum, the regional representative for Epicentre Africa, the research arm of Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). On August 1 of 2018 the World Health Organization confirmed four Ebola cases in the ...
Colorectal cancer is typically considered a disease of aging — most new cases are diagnosed in people over age 50. But even as the rates decrease in older adults, scientists have documented a worrisome trend in the opposite direction among patients in ...
Bangladesh is grappling with a record-breaking spike in dengue fever, with 1,477 new patients diagnosed just within the past 24 hours, according to the health ministry. Experts say the rise is part of a regional trend, driven by climate change and other factors.
By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, July 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Wondering if you can do more than slap on some sunscreen to prevent skin cancer? A new study suggests that getting more vitamin A may help. The study of around ...
Rwanda has restricted movement across its border with the DR Congo, where an Ebola outbreak has killed more than 1,800 people in the past year. Parts of the border were closed after a third case of Ebola was identified in the Congolese border city of ...
As more and more people pay attention to U.S. maternal mortality rates—the highest in the world among developed nations—more researchers are investigating what's driving so many deaths of women who give birth in the U.S.. Heart disease is the leading ...
KINSHASA, Congo — The 1-year-old daughter of the man who died of Ebola in Congo's major city of Goma this week has the disease, the health ministry said Thursday, while Rwanda closed its border with Congo over the virus outbreak that now enters its ...
A new study suggests that evidence for microbes found on placentas was the result of lab contamination. Ed Yong. 1:02 PM ET. A 3d ultrasound image of a fetus inside a womb Scientists have been undecided about whether a fetus is exposed to microbes ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Each year, one out of every five patients admitted to a hospital in the United States for serious care develops acute kidney injury. For a variety of reasons, these patients' kidneys suddenly stop functioning normally and become unable to ...
(KINSHASA, Congo) — A second person died Wednesday of Ebola in Congo's major crossroads city of Goma, again raising fears the virus could spread beyond the country's borders as the outbreak enters a second year. The man may never have known he ...
By SALEH MWANAMILONGO and CARA ANNA, Associated Press. KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A second person died Wednesday of Ebola in Congo's major crossroads city of Goma, again raising fears the virus could spread beyond the country's borders as ...
Stanford researchers have found that cancer cells have a protein called CD24 on their surface that enables them to protect themselves against the body's immune cells. Shutterstock. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered ...
August is National Immunization Awareness Month. An annual observance held to highlight the importance of vaccinations for people of all ages. However, this year it feels a bit like an oxymoron, as certain high-income areas of the United States have ...
Two-thirds of surveyed countries reported levels of pre-treatment drug resistance of at least 10% among adults to common HIV antiretroviral therapies (ART), especially among women, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Of the 18 countries that ...
The bacteria are not a major threat, but they could transfer their resistance to more dangerous pathogens. By Karen Weintraub on August 1, 2019. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Share on Reddit. Share on LinkedIn. Share via. Print. Mind the Staph: ...
A McDonald's in Johnson City, TN, and a Little Caesar's Pizza in Newark, NJ, put their customers at risk of exposure to hepatitis A by permitting an employee with the liver disease to report for work. They are the latest in a long list of hepatitis A developments ...
WEDNESDAY, July 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Wondering if you can do more than slap on some sunscreen to prevent skin cancer? A new study suggests that getting more vitamin A may help. The study of around 125,000 Americans found that people with ...
During pregnancy, the placenta provides a fetus with everything it needs to develop: oxygen, food, waste disposal, and even antibodies from a mother's immune system. But not microbes. A new study finds the placenta lacks bacteria, reaffirming the idea that ...
Both low and high levels of hemoglobin were linked to an increased risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, a population-based cohort study showed. Over 12 years, anemia was associated with a 34% increased risk of dementia and a 41% increased risk ...
Dan Rosenbaum, relaxing with furry pal Jessie, participated in a clinical trial to assess how a combination of two drugs affected chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Rosenbaum said he began to feel better within two weeks of starting the treatment. Courtesy of Dan ...
It is estimated that more than 1 in 10 adults aged 65 years or older in the United States are binge drinkers, a study published online July 31 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society indicates. "Binge drinkers were more likely to be male, have a higher ...
A mobile phone app has speeded up the detection of a potentially fatal kidney condition in hospital patients. Staff describe the technology as a "potential lifesaver", providing diagnoses in minutes instead of hours. Acute kidney injury is caused by serious ...
A new study harnessed the unique genetic history of the people of Finland to identify variations in DNA that might predispose certain individuals to disease, whether or not they are Finnish themselves. The study was conducted by researchers at Washington ...
Altered liver enzymes consistently were tied to Alzheimer's disease, an observational study of older adults showed. Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) to alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ratios were significantly increased in people who had cognitive ...
A second person has died of Ebola in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, the country's pointman for the epidemic told AFP on Wednesday, heightening fears the disease could spread through the densely populated transport hub. The latest death from the ...
With the rise of fad diets, "superfoods", and a growing range of dietary supplement choices, it's sometimes hard to know what to eat. This can be particularly relevant as we grow older, and are trying to make the best choices to minimise the risk of health ...
Like humans, many bacteria like to spend time at the beach. The so-called flesh-eating bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus, don't just like the beach; they need it, and rely on seasalt for survival. And as with human beachgoers, the warmer the water, the more of them ...
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have shown that it's possible to produce a compound with anti-cancer properties directly from feverfew—a common flowering garden plant. The team was able to extract the compound from the flowers and modify it ...
Patients who chronically used methamphetamine had maladaptive cardiac fibrotic remodeling which may be associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, according to data presented at the American Heart Association's Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Scientific ...
Eat your carrots and lower your risk for skin cancer? New results from a study by investigators at Brown University would suggest that seems to be the case, although not necessarily isolated to the orange vegetable. The Brown researchers found that people ...
There seems to be a new story daily of a mom being shamed for nursing her baby in public. Breastfeeding moms have been asked to cover up at pizzerias, confronted at malls, singled out on flights and booted from water parks. So I guess we need to explain ...
A new study confirms earlier reports that anemia — a condition caused by having too little hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying component of red blood cells — increases the risk for dementia. It found that having high hemoglobin levels does so as well.
The idea of "binge drinking" typically conjures up images of college frat parties and the dread of the next day's (days') hangover. But not all binge drinkers are young adults who have yet to get their first full-time job—in fact, a growing number of them are senior ...
WEDNESDAY, July 31, 2019 (American Heart Association News) -- Plastic medical devices abound in hospitals. IV bags, catheters and feeding tubes cram every corner. But the chemicals that make these medical items so flexible may be changing ...
A veteran Florida fisherman hospitalized by so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria says he feels lucky to be alive, having feared the infection could have killed him. George Billiris fished with his grandson near the Anclote power plant, around 30 miles from the city of ...
Officials in Washington state have declared a hepatitis A outbreak amid an increase in cases of the highly contagious liver infection elsewhere in the U.S.. The Washington State Department of Health says the outbreak includes 13 confirmed cases of hepatitis ...
Current annual estimates of confirmed Lyme disease cases are between 2000 and 3000 in England and Wales, according to Public Health England. However, research published in BMJ Open suggests the real figure for the tick-borne disease could be three ...
A wireless, wearable monitor built with stretchable electronics could allow comfortable, long-term health monitoring, researchers report. The monitor works for adults, babies, and small children without concern for skin injury or allergic reactions conventional ...
Certain nutrients and chemicals in food navigate the same molecular pathways that certain cancer therapies use to slow tumor growth, researchers report. Researchers can manipulate one such shared pathway, which common chemotherapy drugs and ...
A California woman has spent several weeks in the hospital this month after she contracted the West Nile virus from an infected mosquito. Laura Hardwick's family said they aren't sure where the offending mosquito struck, but that she did get several bites ...
By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Aug. 1, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Autopsies have uncovered new insight into how the illegal drug methamphetamine harms the heart. Preliminary findings presented Thursday at an American ...
One metro county has already trapped West Nile mosquitoes at 11 locations. Here's how you can protect yourself. By Tim Darnell, Patch Staff. Jul 31, 2019 2:18 pm ET. Reply. 0. Mosquitoes carrying the West Nile Virus have been trapped in DeKalb County.
A team of researchers from DeepMind, the U.S. Veterans Administration and several other institutions in the U.K. and the U.S. has applied artificial intelligence to the problem of detecting acute kidney injury in hospitalized patients. In their paper published in ...
Wondering if you can do more than slap on some sunscreen to prevent skin cancer? A new study suggests that getting more vitamin A may help. The study of around 125,000 Americans found that people with the highest intake of vitamin A lowered their risk of ...
People whose diets included high levels of vitamin A had a 17% reduction in risk for the second-most-common type of skin cancer compared to those who ate modest amounts of vitamin A, a new study shows. Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma is the ...
Scientists at the University of California, Irvine, report that they used a chimeric model to learn how key human brain immune cells respond to Alzheimer's. By developing a way for these microglia to grow and function in mice, the team says researchers now ...
CANTON, Ohio – An Ohio woman was hospitalized for more than 80 days and had multiple limbs partially amputated after catching a severe infection from dog saliva. The last thing Marie Trainer remembers is feeling sick and lying down on the couch.
Diet is already a key part of managing diseases like diabetes and hypertension, but new research adds to a growing body of evidence that it could help cancer treatment too. The study, published Thursday in the journal Nature, found restricting intake of an ...
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh is grappling with its worst outbreak of dengue fever, with hospitals packed with patients as the disease spreads rapidly in the densely-populated country. At least 14 people have died and more than 17,000 have come down ...
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, July 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Binge drinking is often associated with young adults, but according to a new study, more than 10% of people over 65 do it, too. Among seniors, binges are most ...
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