With antibiotic-resistant bacteria on the rise, scientists are urgently trying to find drugs that will work against persistent infections. But coming up with new ones does not have to be the only strategy. A recent study published in Proceedings of the National ...
A national panel of health experts recommended on Tuesday that doctors screen all adult patients for illicit drug use, including improper use of prescription medications. But the group, the United States Preventive Services Task Force, stopped short of ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists are a step closer to finding the first effective treatments for the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever after two potential drugs showed survival rate of as much as 90% in a clinical trial in Congo. Two experimental drugs - Regeneron's ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists are a step closer to being able to cure the deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever after two experimental drugs showed survival rates of as much as 90% in a clinical trial in Congo. Two experimental drugs - an antibody cocktail called ...
Two experimental treatments to treat Ebola infection work so well that they will now be offered to all patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo, scientists announced Monday. The antibody-based treatments are so powerful — "Now we can say that 90 ...
(CNN) Two new Ebola treatments are proving so effective they are being offered to all patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the current outbreak is the second-deadliest ever. A randomized trial comparing four different treatments in four towns ...
Thin, flexible fibers made of carbon nanotubes have now proven able to bridge damaged heart tissues and deliver the electrical signals needed to keep those hearts beating. Scientists at Texas Heart Institute (THI) report they have used biocompatible fibers ...
The first chlamydia vaccine to be tested in humans has been shown to be safe, and may protect against the most common sexually transmitted bacterial infection in the world. Research teams in Denmark and the United Kingdom reported findings Monday ...
The 72-year-old man could not figure out what was wrong with his throat. Following a minor operation on his abdomen, he had been in pain, coughing up blood and unable to swallow solid food for almost a week. But when emergency room doctors examined ...
A U.K. man's dentures fell down his throat during surgery and were stuck there for more than a week before they were discovered, according to a new report. The case highlights the dangers of leaving dentures in a patient's mouth during any surgery that ...
(CNN) Scientists have taken a step towards a vaccine for chlamydia following a successful early trial. A vaccine developed by a British and Danish team was shown to be safe and effective during a randomized controlled trial involving 35 women, according to ...
Patients who had sustained hypertension in midlife to late life and those with midlife hypertension and late-life hypotension had an increased risk for dementia later in life compared with patients with normal BP in midlife and late life, according to a study ...
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, Aug. 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- New research is untangling the complex relationship between symptoms of depression and losses in memory and thinking that often emerge together with Alzheimer's ...
A colourful image of blood vessel cells has won this year's Reflections of Research competition, run by the British Heart Foundation (BHF). A colourful image showing blood vessels Image copyright British Heart Foundation. The competition looks for the best ...
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, Aug. 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- If you often find yourself dosing off during the day, new research suggests it might be an early warning sign that you have Alzheimer's disease. Areas of the brain that keep ...
TUESDAY, Aug. 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- One of the most popular and effective medications used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) appears to alter the brains of boys with the disorder, a new study shows. While the researchers ...
Researchers report that eating red meat is associated with an increased risk for breast cancer, and eating white meat with a reduced risk. The prospective analysis, in the International Journal of Cancer, included 42,012 women who provided health and diet ...
Measles continues to spread in global outbreaks, with the first 6 months of 2019 producing more measles cases than any year since 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new report on measles activity in the first half of 2019. Between Jan 1 ...
Chronic active lesions -- dark-rimmed spots indicating ongoing, smoldering inflammation on 3T or 7T MRI susceptibility sequences -- were common in multiple sclerosis (MS) and tied to disability accumulation, a prospective study showed. Chronic lesions with ...
A United Kingdom mother is warning other new parents after her 11-month-old son, Oliver, developed a sepsis that led to the removal of all four of his limbs — including one she claims self-amputated when his diaper was being changed. Abigail Wardle, from ...
A vaccine for the most common sexually transmitted infection has passed an early test on the path to public availability. Health researchers in the UK have developed a potential vaccine for chlamydia, an STI caused by Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria, which ...
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Many people who have problems with their memory, especially if they are elderly, worry that they have Alzheimer's disease, which ...
The first ever vaccine against genital chlamydia was safe and immunogenic in healthy women volunteers, a small phase I study found. CTH522, a novel vaccine against chlamydia, given both as an adjuvanted intramuscular vaccine and an unadjuvanted ...
Researchers in the U.S. have begun editing the genes of adults with devastating diseases, using a tool known as CRISPR. China has already launched multiple trials of CRISPR in humans. Last year Chinese researcher He Jiankui caused a global outcry ...
An Australian woman candidly detailed her experience with a could-have-been deadly infection that occurred after she used cotton swabs to clean out her ears. She's now warning others to be wary of using the swabs, which technically are not recommended ...
MONDAY, Aug. 12, 2019 (American Heart Association News) -- In March 2017, Mary Smith took an afternoon off work to visit her daughter and 2-week-old grandson Brody at their Minneapolis suburb home. Smith brought in groceries for dinner and carried a ...
The human microbiome is a complex ecosystem of trillions of foreign organisms that live in and on every person's body, and it's closely connected to almost every facet of health — from immune function and metabolism to illnesses like allergies, multiple ...
The first-ever human trial of a genital-chlamydia vaccine suggests that it is safe and effective, according to a new study published in the Lancet. U.S. sexually transmitted illness diagnoses have reached new highs for the past four years in a row, and chlamydia ...
MONDAY, Aug. 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A vaccine against the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia appears safe and potentially effective, an early trial suggests. The phase 1 study included 35 healthy women. Those who were given injections of two ...
Researchers have discovered that when a protein form tangles, it can kill nerve cells, destroying parts of the brain responsible for maintaining wakefulness. The researchers theorize this is why excessive daytime sleepiness may be a symptom of Alzheimer's ...
Residents of Mexico City who are obese may be more likely to die prematurely than their slimmer counterparts, especially if they have lots of extra fat around their midsections, a new study suggests. Obesity has long been linked to an increased risk of an early ...
Mice scurry around while foraging for food, but genetics may be the unseen hand controlling these meandering movements. Researchers at University of Utah Health are using machine learning to draw links between genetic controls that shape incremental ...
Measles cases nearly tripled globally during the first seven months of the year compared to the same period in 2018, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, amid growing concern over public resistance to the vaccine. So far this year, 364,808 measles ...
By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Aug. 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Excess weight, especially a "spare tire" around the middle, increases the risk of an earlier death for Hispanics, a large new study suggests. The study found ...
Published on August 12, 2019. advanced sleep phase. A quirk of the body clock that lures some people to sleep at 8 pm, enabling them to greet the new day as early as 4 am, may be significantly more common than previously believed. So-called advanced ...
So-called surprise medical bills became more common for privately insured patients getting hospital care from 2010 to 2016, a claims analysis found, and not just for emergency department visits. The proportion of emergency department visits at in-network ...
TUESDAY, Aug. 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Living in a more polluted area of the United States may be as damaging to your lungs as a pack-a-day cigarette habit, according to a new long-term study. Ozone air pollution -- the type that's increasing due to ...
In 2007, two governments set into motion a massive public health experiment. One was the state of Texas, where lawmakers rejected a mandate to vaccinate adolescent girls against human papillomavirus, or HPV, a near-ubiquitous sexually-transmitted ...
By E.J. Mundell HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Aug. 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Taking up vaping in adolescence or early adulthood is tied to a more than threefold hike in the odds of becoming a marijuana user, researchers report. The study ...
A New Mexico woman has been diagnosed with West Nile virus, marking the first human case of the mosquito-borne ailment in the state this year. The New Mexico Department of Health announced the news in a Monday press release, noting the 42-year-old ...
A Massachusetts man infected with Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) has reportedly fallen into a coma. On Saturday, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health said lab tests had confirmed a case of EEE in a male over the age of 60 in southern ...
The first-ever chlamydia vaccine encouragingly triggered an immune response in women during preliminary clinical trials and was found to be safe. The first-ever chlamydia vaccine encouragingly triggered an immune response in women during preliminary ...
A drug used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) appears to affect the development of the brain's signal-carrying white matter in children with the disorder, according to a study published in the journal Radiology. The same effects were not ...
Air pollution—especially ozone air pollution which is increasing with climate change—accelerates the progression of emphysema of the lung, according to a new study led by the University of Washington, Columbia University and the University at Buffalo.
By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Aug. 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A kind, understanding doctor could spell the difference between life or death for diabetes patients, a new study suggests. British researchers found that patients ...
MONDAY, Aug. 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A kind, understanding doctor could spell the difference between life or death for diabetes patients, a new study suggests. British researchers found that patients had a lower risk of early death if their primary care ...
Young people who vape are more likely to use marijuana, according to a study published Monday. The findings, researchers say, support the theory that nicotine rewires the developing brain, changing how people respond to and crave addictive substances.
AUSTIN, Texas — In 2007, two governments set into motion a massive public health experiment. One was the state of Texas, where lawmakers rejected a mandate to vaccinate adolescent girls against human papillomavirus, or HPV, a near-ubiquitous ...
Federal health officials have reported 1,182 measles cases in 30 states this year, contributing to the highest number of infections worldwide since 2006. States reported 10 new cases to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since last week.
Prior studies have suggested that women who take aspirin before being diagnosed with breast cancer (BC) may live longer than women who haven't historically used aspirin, but study data is limited and inconsistent. Research headed by scientists at the ...
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