A new blood test for tracking breast cancer in patients with early stage disease may enable physicians to more sensitively monitor breast cancer, including looking at responses to treatment, tailoring treatments more effectively and preventing some invasive ...
Half a dozen cancer patients in New York developed a rare infection after they received injectable opioids that a nurse had diluted with tap water, according to a new report. It appears that the nurse tampered with the syringes to remove some of the narcotics ...
Healthcare providers should be on the lookout for opioid tampering and theft if a cluster of patients at a facility become sick with infections as a result of a waterborne bacteremia, warn the authors of a letter published today in the New England Journal of ...
Physician directors of major cancer centers should not receive industry payments, say Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH, and David Carr, MD, both from the University of California in San Diego. Having reported their findings on industry payments to cancer center ...
One of a dozen people who contracted Legionnaires' disease after staying at or visiting a hotel in Atlanta, Ga., has died, officials said this week. The woman, Cameo Garrett, died on July 9 from coronary artery disease, a condition that worsened after she ...
Doctors have gotten much better at detecting and treating breast cancer early. Drug and chemotherapy regimens to control tumors have gotten so effective, in fact, that in some cases, surgery is no longer necessary. In up to 30% of cases of early-stage breast ...
As the NFL preseason gets underway, a new study of collegiate American football players' brains pre- and postseason finds routine hits in practices and games caused damage to their brains, even without sustaining concussions. "Public perception is that the ...
New research from Stanford shows that immune cells known as CDE8 T cells helped reduce the severity of a disease similar to multiple sclerosis in mice. Microstock3D/Shutterstock. A seldom-studied class of immune cells may reduce the friendly fire that ...
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Three Congolese doctors have been arrested for allegedly planning an attack on a hospital that killed a senior World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist involved in the Ebola response, a prosecutor ...
THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Could the DNA from a patient's breast tumor help doctors spot whether stray cancer cells are still in her blood? That's what a small, new study suggests is possible. If the findings are replicated in a larger study, ...
Researchers at Stanford University have found that spraying a gel on the internal tissues of animals after cardiac surgery greatly reduces adhesions, fibrous bands that form between internal organs and tissues. Adhesions can cause serious, even fatal, ...
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, Aug. 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Skipping that grilled T-bone and having chicken instead could reduce a woman's risk of breast cancer, a new study suggests. The World Health ...
(CNN) The US Food and Drug Administration has received 127 reports of seizures or other neurological symptoms possibly related to e-cigarettes, the agency announced Wednesday. Investigators have yet to determine, however, whether vaping was directly ...
Women with physical disabilities often have to fight to access cervical screening, with some denied it altogether, a charity is warning. Some said they hadn't had smear tests for years because hoists were unavailable and testing at home was not an option, ...
An outbreak of hepatitis A has been identified in Minnesota, prompting state health officials to appeal for broader vaccination efforts in high-risk areas such as homeless shelters and jails. While Minnesota has been insulated somewhat from a national ...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Skipping that grilled T-bone and having chicken instead could reduce a woman's risk of breast cancer, a new study suggests. The World Health Organization has declared red meat a probable carcinogen, and ...
Juul and other e-cigarettes: What are the health risks? truthinitiative.org. Once hailed as the healthier end-all to smoking traditional cigarettes, public officials are becoming increasingly more concerned about e-cigarettes, especially in youth populations.
The Ebola outbreak has killed more than 500 children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since the outbreak began last August, and deaths in kids have accelerated over the past 6 months, Save the Children, a nongovernmental group that is ...
THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Before any surgery, you typically hear warnings about risks like bleeding and infection, but new research suggests that problems with thinking or memory can often follow a major procedure. The study found that ...
When six patients developed Sphingomonas paucimobilis bloodstream infections last summer at a cancer center in Buffalo, New York, clinicians got to work tracking down the source, eventually leading to federal criminal charges against a nurse there.
Patients aged 50 years who adhered to recommendations from the American Heart Association's Life's Simple 7 metric for CV health had a lower risk for dementia later in life, according to a study published in The BMJ. "Our findings suggest that the Life's ...
Massachusetts has among the highest rates of dispensing naloxone, the drug that can reverse an opioid overdose, according to new federal data. Among counties nationwide, Franklin County in western Massachusetts last year had the fourth-highest rate of ...
A new study links stressful life experiences among middle-aged women—but not men—to greater memory decline in later life. The researchers say their findings add to evidence that stress hormones play an uneven gender role in brain health, and align with ...
Driving by a fast-food joint on your way home from work may be driving your weight problem, a new study suggests. The study, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, analyzed the link between body mass index – a measure of obesity that takes into ...
Researchers say a new blood test, combined with risk factor evaluation, can predict the development of Alzheimer's disease with 94 percent accuracy. The test developed by Washington University in St. Louis measures the amount of amyloid protein in a ...
Drug overdoses involving opioids have increased, and naloxone can be a life-saving drug to prevent deaths. In April 2018, the U.S. Surgeon General issued a public health advisory emphasizing the importance of naloxone and increasing access and ...
Florida health officials on Tuesday announced a case of the potentially life-threatening mosquito-borne virus known as dengue fever. The case was confirmed in the Miami-Dade County community, the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County said ...
DENVER, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A die-off of several prairie dog colonies from plague near Denver has prompted conservation advocates to insist the chubby ground squirrels get a bad rap and don't spread the flea-borne disease. Evidence of a plague outbreak led a ...
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press. WASHINGTON (AP) — Expanding access to a promising but costly treatment, Medicare said Wednesday it will cover for some blood cancers a breakthrough gene therapy that revs up a patient's own ...
In Maine and across the United States, prescriptions for a life-saving opioid antidote have escalated since 2016, according to federal and state statistics. Meanwhile, after climbing for years, drug overdose deaths started declining for the first time in 2018.
(Reuters Health) - People who eat a healthy, mostly plant-based diet may be less likely to develop heart disease and to die from it than those who consume lots of meat and refined carbohydrates, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers followed 12,168 ...
A military laboratory in Maryland used for biological defense research, which houses some of the world's most dangerous pathogens, was ordered to stop research last month after failing an inspection. The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious ...
Distinct markers in the blood of people with coeliac disease have been detected within a few hours of gluten being consumed. The findings address a longstanding mystery about what drives the adverse reaction to gluten in coeliac disease and could lead to ...
THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- If you have migraines, one or two cups of coffee a day may be okay, but three or more could raise your risk of an attack, a new study concludes. "Interestingly, despite some patients with episodic migraine ...
Major surgery is associated with a small long-term decline in cognitive functioning—equivalent, on average, to less than five months of natural brain ageing, finds a study in The BMJ today. But the odds of substantial cognitive decline also increase after ...
Patients with episodic migraine who drank three or more servings of caffeinated beverages daily were more likely to have headache by the end of day, according to findings recently published in The American Journal of Medicine. "Widespread anecdotal ...
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews. Health officials in Miami-Dade County, Florida have reported a confirmed a locally-acquired case of dengue fever this week, the second such case reported in the county and the state in 2019. Miami-Dade County map
Preemies often lag behind full-term babies in getting routine vaccinations -- and the difference remains at age 3, a new study finds. Misguided parental "hesitancy" over the safety of vaccines for preemies might be to blame, researchers said. The study found ...
People who are the most optimistic tend to be better sleepers, a study of young and middle-aged adults found. More than 3,500 people ages 32-51 were included in the study sample. The participants included people in Birmingham, Alabama; Oakland, ...
Good cardiovascular health at age 50 is associated with a lower risk of dementia later in life, finds a study of British adults published by The BMJ today. The researchers say their findings support public health policies to improve cardiovascular health in middle ...
A dengue epidemic has been declared in the Philippines in the wake of more than 600 deaths and over 146,000 cases of the disease having been recorded in 2019 alone – a 98% increase from the previous year. Dengue – one of the fastest-spreading ...
Opioid use at the three-month follow-up in emergency department patients discharged with an opioid prescription for acute pain is relatively low and not necessarily synonymous with opioid misuse. That is the conclusion of a study to be published in the ...
Researchers have found evidence that heart disease rates are rising or stagnating even in very wealthy countries. Every year more than 600,000 Americans die due to heart disease. Experts aren't sure exactly why the rates aren't improving, but point to ...
A late cup of coffee isn't hurting your sleep nearly as much as a cigarette before bed. So says a new study published in the journal Sleep, which analyzed data from 785 African American men and women. And while nicotine and alcohol use four hours before ...
A woman who was found in a river almost three weeks after going missing had a history of mental health problems, an inquest has heard. Lorraine Easom, 55, was last seen by a neighbour near her home in Harpes Road, Summertown, Oxford on 8 March.
By now, we're all aware that the best way to avoid gaining weight is to keep unhealthy foods out of your home. Similarly, snacks at the office can impede one's dietary goals. But new research points to a different danger zone, a frequently traversed space ...
Hundreds of children in Pakistan face a potential death sentence after being infected with HIV. Ben Farmer meets families at the centre of an unprecedented outbreak. Pictures by Saiyna Bashir. This article has an estimated read time of seven minutes.
THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Want to reduce your risk of dementia? Take care of your heart. That's the takeaway from a new study that suggests good heart health in middle age could lower your odds for problems with thinking and memory ...
Two cancer centers in the past week achieved NCI comprehensive cancer center designation. Representatives of Indiana University (IU) Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center announced their designation on Aug. 6, a week after officials with Sylvester ...
One person has died from a Legionnaires' disease outbreak at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, as of Wednesday. Nancy Nydam, director of communications at the Georgia Department of Public Health (GDPH), confirmed the death to Newsweek on Wednesday.
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