PHILADELPHIA — Addition of the anti-inflammatory agent colchicine to standard of care within 30 days of a myocardial infarction (MI) significantly reduced a composite endpoint of cardiovascular events compared with placebo in a large, randomized study.
The burning in his kneecaps was what Richard Bedard noticed first. Then came the tenderness and pain. Sitting for 10 hours a day as a financial editor in Hong Kong was agonizing. So was walking short distances or just standing in the elevator.
When it comes to battling dementia, the unfortunate news is this: Medications have proven ineffective at curing or stopping the disease and its most common form, Alzheimer's disease. But that isn't the end of the story. According to a recent wave of scientific ...
MELBOURNE — Samoa declared a state of emergency this weekend, closing all schools and cracking down on public gatherings, after several deaths linked to a measles outbreak that has spread across the Pacific islands. The island state of just 200,000, ...
In this Feb. 16, 2017 file photo, surgeons perform a non-emergency angioplasty at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Through a blood vessel in the groin, a tube is guided to a blockage in the heart. A tiny balloon is then inflated to flatten the clog, and a mesh ...
For people with heart disease, it's been thought that inserting a stent was the best way to treat sudden chest pain during exercise. But a landmark study suggests that this invasive procedure might not be necessary, and instead, medication and lifestyle ...
PHILADELPHIA — Adults with a recent MI were less likely to experience an ischemic CV event over 2 years when assigned the anti-inflammatory gout medication colchicine compared with assignment to placebo, according to new results of the COLCOT trial ...
By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). SATURDAY, Nov. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Routine fasting may reduce the risk of heart failure and death in patients who have cardiac catheterization, a new study suggests. It included more than 2,000 ...
A British man nearly died after a parasite crawled up his penis and started laying eggs after he went for a swim in Lake Malawi in southeast Africa during a "holiday of a lifetime" with pals. James Michael, 32, contracted schistosomiasis - also known as ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Many patients with severe but stable heart disease who routinely undergo invasive procedures to clear and prop open clogged arteries would do as well by just taking medications and making lifestyle changes, U.S. researchers reported ...
SATURDAY, Nov. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Routine fasting may reduce the risk of heart failure and death in patients who have cardiac catheterization, a new study suggests. It included more than 2,000 patients who had cardiac catheterization between ...
(CNN) -- Every 15 minutes, someone in the United States dies of a superbug that has learned to outsmart even our most sophisticated antibiotics, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's about 35,000 deaths ...
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews. The Samoa Ministry of Health reported the latest on the measles outbreak in a Situational Update that shows the number of suspect measles cases has grown to 716, including 48 confirmed and six deaths through Nov.
EMILY, MINN. – Tracy Jones rolled his eyes at the thought of two more weeks of deer hunting. It was Monday at his custom meat shop on Highway 6 and his parking lot was overflowing with pickup trucks and trailers loaded with more carcasses. He had a crew ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — While e-cigarettes have been in the spotlight for their popularity among kids and an ongoing outbreak of lung injury, many have also looked to them as a potentially less harmful alternative to smoking cigarettes. New research ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Inner Mongolia reported a fresh, confirmed case of bubonic plague on Sunday, despite an earlier declaration by the country's health officials that the risk of an outbreak was minimal. The health commission of the autonomous ...
The findings of a large federal study on bypass surgeries and stents call into question the medical care provided to tens of thousands of heart disease patients with blocked coronary arteries, scientists reported at the annual meeting of the American Heart ...
By Bijal Trivedi. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report on Nov. 13 that describes a list of microorganisms that have become resistant to antibiotics and pose a serious threat to public health. Each year these so-called ...
You may not see it on the surface, but there's an arms race happening at your local pharmacy. Every day, antibiotics are handed out to countless sick people around the globe. They're our best weapon against many types of bacteria, and they've worked well ...
One of the vaccines used to prevent polio has actually been causing some people to get the disease. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Just last month, the World Health Organization announced that two of three strains of polio had been eradicated. It's been one of the ...
With the holidays approaching, public health officials say now is a good time to get those flu shots. The holiday shopping, family gathers and work parties and the colder weather that keeps people indoors mean people are in closer contact, increasing the ...
As temperatures continue to drop, it's a reminder that flu season is upon us. Known as influenza, it can lead to death. There have been two confirmed flu-related deaths reported this flu season, according to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa health officials say two people in the state have died from complications of the flu in recent weeks. The Iowa Department of Public Health says the deaths occurred in a woman between the ages of 61 and 80 in central Iowa ...
Study finds seal and sea otter populations in Alaska hit by killer infection that migrated from North Atlantic. The age of extinction is supported by. Band Foundation and Wyss Foundation About this content · Peter Beaumont. Sun 17 Nov 2019 02.18 EST Last ...
A British man had to spend months in hospital and lost the use of his legs after a parasitic worm crawled up his penis. James Michael, 32, was travelling around south-eastern Africa with friends when they spent a while on the shores of Lake Malawi. The group ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia health officials have confirmed three additional cases of measles in an Atlanta area county where a middle school student was recently diagnosed with the virus. The Georgia Department of Public Health said Friday at least two of ...
POLK COUNTY, Mo. (KY3) - Saturday marked opening day for rifle deer hunting season in Missouri. Some hunters in the Ozarks were required to take their catches to testing sites to check for Chronic Wasting Disease. 13-year-old Lila and her dad Reg have ...
Vaping is on the rise among teens and they need access to treatment just like adults struggling with nicotine addiction. Making healthy choices can be challenging at any age, but imagine you are 13 years old. You are confronted with ongoing peer pressure ...
DES MOINES, Iowa – Iowa health officials say two people in the state have died from complications of the flu in recent weeks. The Iowa Department of Public Health says the deaths occurred in a woman between the ages of 61 and 80 in central Iowa and in a ...
COBB COUNTY, Ga. – The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) has confirmed an additional three measles cases in less than a week, bringing the total number of confirmed measles cases to 11 this year alone – more cases than in the previous ...
November is National Diabetes Month, and this year, the National Institutes for Health is highlighting the link between diabetes and heart disease. According to the NIH, "When blood sugar is high and moving through blood vessels, the vessels and nerves that ...
(LEX 18) — Health experts across the country are saying it's time to get your annual flu shot now. According to an infectious disease expert, this year's vaccine has been a good match for the strains that are going around. And the CDC said it is important to get ...
Kiwis are not big on donating organs, with a bill aimed at increasing donation and transplant rates poised to become law. Stuff looks at those giving and receiving the gift of life. "What are you here for?" "A kidney transplant." Seven years. I'd waited seven years ...
Pictures show thousands of men queuing for a free prostate cancer test in what organisers said was the 'biggest such event in the world'. More than 2,000 men were tested for the disease, which is the most common killer of male cancer patients in the UK.
HONOLULU (AP) — Health officials in Hawaii have confirmed two additional cases of vaping-related lung injury Friday bringing the number of cases to four in the state. The state Department of Health has reported that the four cases were confirmed in two ...
Overeating and obesity are risk factors for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, so you'd be forgiven for thinking that abstaining from food could help fix the problem. While the situation is much more nuanced, there's certainly cause for considering an ...
A traveller spent three months in hospital and lost the use of his legs after taking a dip in a lake - when a parasitic worm swam up his penis. James Michael, 32, went swimming in Lake Malawi in southeastern Africa with pals two years ago, but had no idea and ...
(CNN) - Abigail Moen, 9, didn't know what a cleft lip or cleft palate was until she watched a commercial that brought tears to her eyes. "I was sad," the fourth-grader from Eastchester, New York, told CNN. "I said, 'Daddy, can we do something? I want to help ...
Abigail Moen, 9, didn't know what a cleft lip or cleft palate was until she watched a commercial that brought tears to her eyes. "I was sad," the fourth-grader from Eastchester, New York, told CNN. "I said: 'Daddy, can we do something? I want to help those kids.'".
Cigarette smokers who switch to nicotine containing vaporizers could significantly improve their vascular health, a major University of Dundee study has concluded. A two-year trial hosted by the University's School of Medicine found that smokers who ...
Surgeons are not squeamish people, so when one of them says, "This is an evil that I haven't faced before" it gets your attention. The doctor is Hassan Nemeh, surgical director of thoracic organ transplant at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital. The evil is the ...
A DYING mum has told of how strangers thinks she deserves her lung cancer because she smoked. Sophie Sabbage, 53, from Kent was diagnosed with the disease six years ago even though she had given up her 10-a-day habit 20 years before.
New York: Young people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes experience high psychological distress, resulting in worse health outcomes and poor blood sugar control, find researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. Age plays a critical role in the well-being of ...
NEW DELHI: From uttapam to sprouted dal parantha - a book by Unicef tells how to tackle problems of underweight, obesity and anaemia among children by consuming nutritious food that costs less than Rs 20. The book has been based on the findings of the ...
On #WorldDiabetesDay, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) released new figures that highlight the alarming growth in the prevalence of diabetes around the world. The IDF reports that 38 million more adults are now estimated to be living with ...
Epilepsy is a medical condition of the brain, which results in untimely seizures or fits. The World Health Organisation has described epilepsy as a "chronic non-communicable disease of the brain which is characterized by recurrent seizures". WHO also ...
When 49-year-old Mel Beard booked in for a £13,000 facelift earlier this yr, her family and friends had been shocked. Husband Roger stated she was mad to think about surgical procedure earlier than she'd hit 50. However now, six months after the process, ...
The mom of a boy who misplaced his toes and most of his fingers whereas combating sepsis on the age of 18 months is attempting to boost funds for life-changing surgical procedure in Poland that would see him stroll once more. Jakub Kolek, who's now 4, ...
How a fluorescent dye that makes most cancers glow inexperienced helps surgeons to hint the trickiest tumours and assist forestall amputations. Medics use the dye to trace down sarcomas which have an effect on 1000's of sufferers; Many sarcoma sufferers ...
The Ministry of Health is to send a proposal to Cabinet to consider the subsidisation of the cost of treating diabetes, which is relatively costly. Mr Alexander Kojo Abban, a Deputy Minister of Health, announced this at the 2019 International World Diabetes Day, ...
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