(CNN) Officials in Rockland County, New York, declared Wednesday that its measles outbreak is over. The first measles case in Rockland County was identified October 1, 2018, with the last rash onset from measles identified August 13, 2019.
Breast or bottle? Apparently, parents of infants have been pondering these options for thousands of years. So suggests a new study released Wednesday in the journal Nature. The researchers report finding non-human milk residue inside a type of ancient ...
WASHINGTON — The flu forecast is cloudy and it's too soon to know if the U.S. is in for a third miserable season in a row, but health officials said Thursday not to delay vaccination. While the vaccine didn't offer much protection the past two years, specialists ...
(CNN) The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported on Wednesday there's been a fourth death in the commonwealth from Eastern equine encephalitis, bringing the nationwide total to 10 deaths. An area hospital notified state officials of the death.
High schoolers rallying in downtown Los Angeles this week chanted "Fight the flavor" as they showed their support for banning the flavored tobacco products that health experts say are fueling an epidemic of nicotine addiction among youths. Among the ...
Torrent Pharmaceuticals is the most recent company to update its voluntarly recall of losartan potassium tablets due to trace amounts of impurities found in an active pharmaceutical ingredient. Other companies that have also recalled several lots of their ...
The flu forecast is cloudy and it's too soon to know if the U.S. is in for a third miserable season in a row, but health officials said Thursday not to delay vaccination. While the vaccine didn't offer much protection the past two years, specialists have fine-tuned the ...
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, Sept. 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- In recent years, a growing number of companies have been offering prescriptions for birth control through web-based services and smartphone apps. Now a ...
Men who became fathers through assisted reproductive techniques were at significantly higher risk for prostate cancer and at a younger age than those who fathered children naturally, a Swedish registry study found. The point was not to suggest that assisted ...
Noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS) relieved vertigo and headache in acute vestibular migraine, an open-label preliminary study suggested. Vertigo improved in 13 of 14 acute vestibular migraine patients, and all five patients who had a headache ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bavarian Nordic's new monkeypox and smallpox vaccine, Jynneos, for use in adults over the age of 18 who are at risk for either virus, the company said yesterday in a news release. In addition to being ...
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, Sept. 24, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Decades into the obesity epidemic, Americans are still eating far too much sugar, starch and saturated fat, a new report claims. Since 1999, Americans have cut down a bit on ...
The number of Ebola cases continues to slowly rise in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) outbreak, with four more cases reported today, as global health officials released their latest overview of needs to prevent more spread to the DRC's ...
(CNN) Air pollution may be associated with increased mental health disorders like anxiety and depression in children, a study has found. The study, published Wednesday in the Environmental Health Perspectives journal, found that short-term exposure to ...
More than 800,000 children are to be targeted for vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after a measles outbreak killed more than 3,500 people this year. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Congolese government aim to carry ...
Bacteria have been caught "stripping off" in order to evade antibiotics and survive, scientists show. Researchers at Newcastle University filmed bacteria "undressing" and taking off their outer layer - or cell wall. Antibiotics can attack cell walls so scientists think ...
Men who have fertility treatment have a higher risk of prostate cancer in later life, a study has suggested. The research - in the British Medical Journal - looked at 1.2m pregnancies in Sweden over 20 years. Men who had ICSI - a treatment specifically for male ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Rates of protection for children in England from many serious but vaccine-preventable diseases dropped in the past year in what UK health officials said was a "concerning trend" that increases the risk of outbreaks. FILE PHOTO: A vial of ...
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, Sept. 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- People who suffer bouts of vertigo and dizziness may be suffering from a type of migraine for which treatments rarely work. But a new, preliminary study ...
Bavarian Nordic announced that the FDA has approved Jynneos, a live, nonreplicating vaccine for the prevention of smallpox and monkeypox disease in adults aged 18 years or older who are at a high risk for smallpox or monkeypox infection. The new ...
A new study finds fish oil supplements may help reduce the risk of a cardiovascular event like a heart attack. Vitamin D supplements appeared not to reduce heart attack risk, but did reduce risk of cancer development. The authors say eating fish rather than ...
NEW YORK — An outbreak of vaping illnesses. A surge in teens using electronic cigarettes. They're often spoken of in the same urgent breath, but it's not clear how — or even if — they are connected. Following a shakeup at Juul Labs Inc., the largest U.S. ...
Men who became fathers through assisted reproduction techniques seem to be at higher risk for prostate cancer and early onset prostate cancer compared with men achieving fatherhood naturally, concludes a study published by The BMJ today. The findings ...
Immunotherapy has been a boon to those suffering from severe cancers. The science has been so transformative that just last year, three pioneering researchers won the Nobel Prize for their discoveries in the underlying immunological mechanisms that make ...
DENVER (CBS4) – Colorado Gov. Jared Polis rolled up his sleeve to get his annual flu shot Wednesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is encouraging everyone to get the flu shot early this year. Gov. Jared Polis received his annual flu shot ...
Yet another Massachusetts resident has died from the rare, dangerous mosquito-borne Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus, state health officials said this week. The death marks the fourth in the state and the 10th in the nation from the virus.
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, Sept. 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Menopausal women who get night sweats sleep longer and the longer they sleep, the more trouble they have thinking straight, a surprising new study concludes.
(Reuters Health) - Fewer minority men who are at risk for HIV take a prevention pill or discuss it with their doctors, U.S. researchers say. Awareness of a pill for "preexposure prophylaxis," or PrEP, is high for all groups of men who have sex with men. But lower ...
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, Sept. 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Walking speed may indicate whether young stroke survivors are ready to return to work, a new study suggests. And 3 feet per second may be the threshold that ...
Two have died after contracting EEE. East Lyme resident Patricia Shaw, 77, died last week. The other person who has died is from Old Lyme. By Ellyn Santiago, Patch Staff. Sep 25, 2019 2:49 pm ET ...
A New Jersey mother is sharing her infant son's health scare last year as a warning to others about the dangers of kissing babies. Ariana DiGrigorio, who last month shared a photo of her son Antonio hooked up to several medical devices in a hospital crib, ...
When Lauren Lopez turned 30, instead of celebrating a new decade, she was facing an uncertain future. Lopez had just been diagnosed with incurable stage four recurrent metastatic cervical cancer and doctors gave her only six months to a year to live.
After weight-loss surgery, patients may be more likely to need mental health services, including psychiatric hospitalizations, a new study suggests. Based on data for nearly 25,000 patients, bariatric surgery was linked to a greater than three-fold increased risk ...
When young people with asthma have anxiety, depression or both, they're more likely to visit the emergency room than if they didn't have these mood disorders, a new study suggests. Compared to young people with asthma but without either mood disorder, ...
Cold winter temperatures are uncomfortable for most, but for one New York woman, frigid weather triggered a rare immune condition, according to a new report of the case. The 70-year-old woman lived in upstate New York, which is known for its cold and ...
The vessels are small and ceramic. Some resemble tiny teapots, others look like small pipes, and a few are sculpted into whimsical animal shapes with a little spout on the backside. When they were discovered in ancient cemeteries scattered across Europe, ...
A Los Angeles County resident may have exposed others to measles while traveling through Los Angeles International Airport last week. Officials with the county Department of Public Health said Wednesday that the person showed signs of measles shortly ...
Nivolumab showed promising efficacy among women with recurrent or metastatic cervical, vaginal or vulvar cancers, according to results from the single-arm phase 1/phase 2 CheckMate 358 trial published in Journal of Clinical Oncology. "We know that most ...
THURSDAY, Sept. 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Walking speed may indicate whether young stroke survivors are ready to return to work, a new study suggests. And 3 feet per second may be the threshold that predicts whether they can meet a workday's ...
Using genetic sequencing, scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School of Medicine say they have identified a principal cellular player controlling HIV reproduction in immune cells which, when turned off or deleted, eliminates dormant ...
GEORGIA – A person has died from a vaping-related illness in Georgia, bringing the total known number of deaths tied to vaping in the United States to 10. The person who died had a history of "heavy nicotine vaping," but did not report a history of vaping ...
Another Massachusetts resident with Eastern equine encephalitis has died, marking the fourth EEE death in the state this year, and public health officials announced Wednesday the 11th human case of the mosquito-borne illness in the state. According to the ...
A whistleblower who exposed HIV and hepatitis epidemics in central China in the 1990s, potentially saving tens of thousands of lives, has died aged 59. Dr Shuping Wang lost her job, was attacked, and had her clinic vandalised after she spoke out. She died ...
Health officials are urging anyone who attended the fair and has symptoms of pneumonia to contact a doctor. By Helen Murphy. September 25, 2019 12:52 PM. FB Twitter More. Pinterest Email Send Text Message Print. The North Carolina Mountain State Fair.
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews. Philippines health officials are urging parents to ensure that their children receive all the necessary vaccinations on a timely basis. This call comes after the DOH reported an increase in diphtheria this year to date.
Jade Youngman swears she's not just a picky eater. The 25-year-old has been officially diagnosed with Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) — a fancy medical phrase that somehow justifies her phobia of produce. Youngman, a recruiter from the ...
Acne is the most common skin condition in the United States—it affects some 50 million faces each year, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. But it's also one of the most complicated, as its causes and effective treatments seem to differ from ...
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported on Wednesday there's been a fourth death in the commonwealth from Eastern equine encephalitis, bringing the nationwide total to 10 deaths. An area hospital notified state officials of the death.
Infectious disease specialists overseeing care of patients with fungal infections in the bloodstream can cut death rates by 20%, according to a new study. Bloodstream infections that the fungus Candida causes are among the most common and deadly ...
A Southern California resident who traveled through Los Angeles International Airport this month may have exposed others to the measles virus, health officials said on Wednesday in confirming a new case of the highly contagious virus. The Los Angeles ...
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