When they started practicing medicine, most surgeons say, there was little or no information about just how many pain pills patients needed after specific procedures. As a result, patients often were sent home with the equivalent of handfuls of powerful and ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved pretomanid today, a "major" breakthrough treatment for the most drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) when used in combination with bedaquiline and linezolid. It is only the third TB drug approved by the FDA ...
An epidemic of African Swine Fever is sweeping through China's hog farms, and the effects are rippling across the globe, because China is a superpower of pork. Half of the world's pigs live in China — or at least they did before the epidemic began a year ago ...
Among media reports of the death of a 44-year-old Israeli flight attendant and mother of three after contracting measles, preliminary data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on August 12 show that the number of global cases of the disease ...
Two new drugs have shown remarkable promise at treating Ebola in a clinical trial, increasing survival rates for people who recently contracted the disease to between 89 and 94 percent. That's astonishing for a virus that typically kills about half of all the ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug to help treat deadly, drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, the world's biggest infectious-disease killer. The drug, called Pretomanid, was greenlighted Wednesday for use in combination with two ...
The Food and Drug Administration approved a new tuberculosis medicine that shortens and improves treatment for the hardest-to-treat cases, a worsening problem in many poor countries. It's the first TB drug from a nonprofit group, the TB Alliance. Formed to ...
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a new drug for highly drug-resistant tuberculosis, the world's leading infectious cause of death. Tuberculosis kills 1.6 million people a year, about 500,000 of whom suffer from drug-resistant strains ...
TSAKANE, South Africa — When she joined a trial of new tuberculosis drugs, the dying young woman weighed just 57 pounds. Stricken with a deadly strain of the disease, she was mortally terrified. Local nurses told her the Johannesburg hospital to which ...
Alzheimer's disease might be attacking the brain cells responsible for keeping people awake, resulting in daytime napping, according to a new study. Excessive daytime napping might thus be considered an early symptom of Alzheimer's disease, according to ...
(CNN) Minnesota health officials have identified four cases of severe lung injury that could be connected to vaping, similar to what could be dozens more cases in nearby Wisconsin and Illinois. The Minnesota Department of Health said it's unclear whether ...
(CNN) Long-term exposure to air pollution, especially ground-level ozone, is like smoking about a pack of cigarettes a day for many years, a new study says, and like smoking, it can can lead to emphysema. The study, published Tuesday in the medical journal ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the approval of a new antibiotic for treating the most drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis. Pretomanid, developed by the nonprofit TB Alliance, was approved under the FDA's Limited Population ...
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. regulators Wednesday approved a new tuberculosis medicine that shortens and improves treatment for the hardest-to-treat cases, a worsening problem in many poor countries. It's the first TB drug from a nonprofit group, the TB ...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Since the turn of the century, American obesity rates have skyrocketed. And now a new study indicates that as the nation's waistlines expand, cancers long linked to obesity are striking the middle-aged more ...
Like The Atlantic? Subscribe to The Atlantic Daily, our free weekday email newsletter. In the fall of 1997, after I graduated from college, I began experiencing what I called "electric shocks"—tiny stabbing sensations that flickered over my legs and arms ...
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, Aug. 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The number of genes in bacteria that live in and on people could top 1 billion trillion -- and at least half appear to be unique to their host. That mindboggling math comes ...
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, Aug 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Bingeing on social media isn't good for any teen, but new research has pinpointed three ways in which hours spent on Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook ...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Surgery patients can routinely be prescribed fewer opioid pills -- even just a handful -- without sacrificing their pain relief. That's what doctors at hospitals in Michigan are reporting after analyzing a statewide ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Burundi has started vaccinating its health workers against Ebola, beginning with those near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. Burundi has had no reported ...
Early treatment for acute migraine in children and teens is encouraged, but most preventive migraine medications are not better than placebo for pediatric patients, according to new guidance published in Neurology. Two guideline documents, which offer ...
More than a dozen teens in the Midwest who reported vaping have been hospitalized with lung issues, stumping doctors who are searching for what exactly is sickening them. The Minnesota Department of Health announced Tuesday four cases of young ...
THURSDAY, Aug. 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Folks taking opioids for chronic pain may run into trouble if they need to find a new doctor. A new "secret shopper" survey of 194 Michigan primary care clinics found that as many as four out of 10 primary care ...
Walking and aerobic capacity improved modestly for stroke survivors participating in group aerobic exercise initiatives comparable to cardiac rehabilitation programs, a meta-analysis found. Aerobic exercise had a "small" but significant effect size of 0.38 (95% ...
(Reuters Health) - The more exposure people have to air pollution, especially ozone, the more lung damage they develop over time, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers already knew that heavy air pollution makes lung disease worse in people who already ...
Type 2 diabetes went hand in hand with sleep problems for women in midlife, according to a secondary analysis of data from two survey-based studies. Women with type 2 diabetes (T2D) reported significantly more sleep problems compared with women ...
Boosting a single molecule in the brain can change "dispositional anxiety," the tendency to perceive many situations as threatening, in nonhuman primates, researchers from the University of California, Davis, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have ...
Prescriptions for fewer opioids don't leave patients in more pain after surgery, according to a new study. Cutting prescriptions may help stem rising numbers of opioid misuse. Health providers were able to cut opioid prescriptions simply by following new ...
This UK mother wants to warn parents about the deadly infection that almost took her 11-month-old son's life. In March, Abigail Wardle decided to take her baby boy, Oliver, to a medical clinic when she noticed he seemed "a bit under the weather" — and later ...
Adequate sleep paired with limits on screen time helps reduce impulsivity in children, a study suggests. Michelle D. Guerrero, PhD, with the Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, ...
A mechanistic explanation of how two genes may influence Alzheimer's disease risk has been identified, researchers reported. The genes, known as MS4A4 (membrane-spanning 4-domains subfamily A) and TREM2 (triggering receptor expressed on myeloid ...
For many hospital patients, pain is part of their reality. According to a new study, however, an unreal environment could help. Virtual reality can help. Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center tried virtual reality (VR) technology as a new treatment for pain ...
Use of intensive glucose-lowering agents to treat patients with diabetes and lower HbA1c may be leading to more instances of hypoglycemia that require hospital visits, according to findings published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Rozalina G. McCoy.
infectious disease expert discusses how to stay healthy as flesh-eating bacteria infections move into new, more northern waters. Infections caused by the bacterium Vibrio vulnificus—known as "flesh eating" bacteria—are becoming more common in northern ...
Sometimes, the body grows bone in places it shouldn't. That was the case for a man who was diagnosed with an extremely rare condition — his penis was turning to bone, according to a new report. The 63-year-old man went to the emergency room after he ...
Researchers working for HypoPet have developed a vaccine that could help people who are allergic to cats, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. The vaccine is meant for cats instead of humans. It targets a ...
Older women are at most risk of contracting Lyme disease, a study suggests - and parts of southern and south-west England are "hotspots". There are around 3,000 cases of the disease - a bacterial infection carried by ticks - each year in the UK. But experts ...
Britain is facing a public health emergency as alarming figures for England and Wales show drug-related deaths have hit record levels, prompting calls for damaging cuts to treatment services to be urgently reversed. The statistics for England and Wales ...
Nearly two dozen people have been hospitalized in the Midwest for complications stemming from vaping. Twenty-two people, many of whom are young adults, are being treated for severe breathing problems that health officials say are linked to vaping.
Every year since 2013, the UK's Office for National Statistics has reported an increase in drug-related deaths in England. Last year, we reported that drugs had overtaken traffic accidents as a leading cause of death. This year, they have outstripped suicides ...
It might seem like there's an epidemic of celiac disease going on lately. And in some ways, there is. Prevalence rates in America have increased more than four times in the last 50-odd years, Europe as a whole has seen similarly significant rises, and Sweden ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday that Burundi had begun vaccinating frontline workers against Ebola at its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, where an outbreak of the virus has killed close to 1,900 people. The campaign to ...
If you've scrolled through any of your various social media feeds lately, you might have noticed your mood change depending on what you're seeing. But social media's impact often goes well beyond small mood fluctuations. Heavy use of social media is ...
Almost 20 percent of hospital admissions of young children with acute respiratory infections could be prevented if their houses were free from damp and mold, researchers have found. The research, published in the international medical journal Thorax today, ...
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews. The Florida Department of Health is urging residents to take steps to stop the spread of hepatitis A, which is on the rise in Florida and in parts of the United States. Health officials in Martin County are confirming 32 ...
Rotem Amitai was a flight attendant for El Al Airlines in Israel who has died from complications of measles after contracting the disease while on a flight from New York. Amitai, a mother of three, was 43. Amitai, who had been ill since March, died on August 13, ...
People unjustly kept away from feline companionship due to an allergy are rejoicing this week, after news resurfaced of a potential vaccine that makes cats less able to cause allergies. But while this research is promising, a finished product won't be available ...
Facing the threat of domestic violence, surviving sexual assault, living with depression, coping with thoughts of suicide: all of these things can have major impacts on a person's health. But a new study suggests many Americans aren't talking to their primary ...
Social media use has been linked to depression, especially in teenage girls. But a new study argues that the issue may be more complex than experts think. The research, published Tuesday in the journal The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, involved ...
An Israeli flight attendant died after contracting measles and falling into a coma, Israeli media reported Tuesday, the latest incident amid growing measles outbreaks worldwide. More cases of the virus were reported in the first half 2019 than in any other year ...
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