The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says flu season is starting to ramp up — and it's not too late to reduce your risk with a vaccine. But scientists have come to realize that flu vaccines are less effective for people who are overweight or obese.
A Dutch doctor who was evacuated from Sierra Leone after contracting Lassa fever has died in hospital. The medic was flown home on Tuesday after being infected in the northern town of Masanga, an area not previously known to have been affected.
They still bite, but new research shows lab-grown mosquitoes are fighting dangerous dengue fever that they normally would spread. Dengue infections appear to be dropping fast in communities in Indonesia, Vietnam, Brazil and Australia that are buzzing with ...
(CNN) First, they felt pain all over their body. Next, a lump -- sometimes as small as pea, other times as big as an apple -- protruded from their skin. Then, as the disease spread throughout their body, they coughed up blood. Finally -- for many of them -- came ...
With a raging fever, vomiting and diarrhea, Gregory Rodriguez thought he had some kind of bug when he checked himself into the emergency room at a New York hospital in September. Two days later, he was unconscious, hooked up to an artificial lung and ...
Elderflower syrup. Turmeric milk. Cannabidiol oil. Natural health trends come and go. So how should you decide which ones to chase? The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health can help. Part of the National Institutes of Health, the ...
You Don't Look Sick is our weekly series, discussing invisible illness and living with a condition that other people can't see. This week, we're talking to Jane Edwards, 45, from Stamford, Lincolnshire, who has a rare autoimmune disease called vasculitis, ...
First, they felt pain all over their body. Next, a lump -- sometimes as small as pea, other times as big as an apple -- protruded from their skin. Then, as the disease spread throughout their body, they coughed up blood. Finally -- for many of them -- came death.
The editor of Queerty, a progressive online magazine and newspaper, encouraged readers to put aside their fears of catching HIV and strongly consider dating and even having sex with people who are infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Ditch the fake ...
Teens and young adults whose parents use marijuana are at an increased risk of using weed, alcohol and tobacco, according to a study authored by a Harvard Medical School researcher. Recent and past parental marijuana use poses a risk of substance use ...
New York: People living with cancer are more than twice as likely to die of a stroke, compared to the general population say researchers, adding that the risk increases with time. Cancers of the breast, prostate or colorectum were the type most commonly ...
A pet owner died from a rare bacterial infection that rotted his skin after being licked by his dog. The previously healthy 63-year-old spent more than a fortnight in hospital as he developed pneumonia, gangrene and fungal infections in his lungs, brought on by ...
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — In the weekly reports of Influenza updates throughout the 50 states, Louisiana is among the top for having high levels of Influenza activity. Louisiana along with California and Maryland have reported to the Centers for ...
MONTREAL -- At the launch of its 11th 'Memo-mamo' fundraising campaign on Saturday, the Canadian Cancer Society is paying special attention to poor, immigrant women who are vastly underrepresented among those who undergo a periodic breast ...
Beijing: Researchers have found that burning energy through activation of brown adipose tissue (BAT) by the use of an extract from ginseng, a traditional Chinese medicinal herb, might be an alternative strategy for combating obesity. According to the study, ...
New York: Researchers from Duke University in the US, have created a new cancer-detecting tool, which uses tiny circuits made up of DNA to identify cancer cells by the molecular signatures on their surface. According to the study published in the Journal of ...
Fewer than 2,000 New Yorkers were diagnosed with HIV last year — the lowest that number has been since reporting started in 2001. The 2018 HIV Surveillance Annual Report released this week showed that 1,917 people were newly diagnosed with HIV in ...
Imagine nipping to Boots for your annual flu jab – and while you're at it, getting a once-a-year cholesterol 'vaccine'. Such a routine would mean that a daily dose of statins, currently taken by millions of Britons to reduce their risk of heart attacks and strokes, ...
November is National Diabetes Month. During the month we are looking at some of the myths surrounding this condition. This week we will look at some of the myths about testing and some of the treatment options available. Myth 1: Diabetes pills are oral ...
Colleagues tell me people all over the country are falling under the same spell, writes Dr Anjali Mahto. Halfway through my Tuesday afternoon clinic, a distressed woman flung herself on to the consulting chair in my office. 'Look!' the attractive 35-year-old ...
Dr Idris Ola is a medical doctor with over five years' experience in cancer prevention and control in Nigeria. Ola, a co-founder and Executive Director of the Women's Cancer Prevention and Support for African Society, a non-profit organisation offering cancer ...
A community blueprint with the ambitious goal of ending HIV transmission and Aids in Singapore by 2030 was launched yesterday. The 30 organisations and groups which developed the blueprint hope that it will kick-start the development of a national ...
Anti-cholesterol jab twice a year could herald the end of statins amid hopes treatment will get NHS approval within 18 months. Injections of inclisiran can reduce 'bad' cholesterol levels in patients in weeks; Experts say the jab 'is going to change everything' ...
About 40 per cent of breast cancer strains may be transmitted from human-to-human through saliva. An analysis of studies done in 83 years across the world, including Kenya, concluded there is enough evidence to prove some breast cancers are caused by a ...
Excessive use of certain commonly used antibiotics is linked to an increased risk of Parkinson's disease, a progressive nervous system disorder that leads to shaking, stiffness, and difficulty with walking, balance, and coordination, says a study.
ANI | Updated: Nov 24, 2019 17:26 IST. Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 24 (ANI): Researchers working on Artificial Intelligence has hit another milestone as they have found a way to predict if a lung-cancer patient can be benefitted from expensive ...
Pictured: Disgusting chair covered in pigeon droppings at the hospital where two people including a child died after getting infected from bird faece bacteria. A chair covered in pigeon droppings was spotted at a £1 billion Scottish hospital yesterday, despite ...
One in five Kenyans will develop cancer during their lifetime, reveals a NationNewsplex review of health data over the past decade. The risk of getting cancer by age 75 is slightly higher for women (20 per cent) than men (17 per cent). It is also above the ...
Obesity should be recognised as a DISEASE because it is 'caused by genes rather than greed and laziness', claims royal college. Obesity should be classified as a disease, experts said today. Millions of people in the UK are obese – around a quarter of ...
Scientists who admire pioneered the employ of Synthetic Intelligence (AI) to predict whether or no longer chemotherapy will possible be winning, can now resolve which lung-cancer sufferers will admire the profit of pricy immunotherapy. Researchers feeble AI ...
London, Nov 23 (IANS) Excessive use of certain commonly used antibiotics is linked to an increased risk of Parkinson's disease, a progressive nervous system disorder that leads to shaking, stiffness, and difficulty with walking, balance, and coordination, says ...
New York, Nov 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Both obesity and smoking can have negative effects on bone health, say researchers, adding they also impact healing in patients who have undergone surgery for fractures of the wrist, or the distal radius, among the most ...
A veteran counsellor warned the island yesterday not to be complacent about the risk of contracting HIV, despite a massive drop in the number of new cases. Carolyn Armstrong, the director and founder of Support Therapy for Aids patients and their Relatives, ...
Someone who is sleep-deprived is three times more likely to make potentially deadly lapses in concentration, a new study has found. In one of the largest sleep studies of its kind, researchers from Michigan State University set out to quantify the effect that the ...
A new procedure for storing livers donated for transplant has been hailed a "game changer" and approved for use on the NHS. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) say perfusion machines could increase the number of livers that can ...
Researchers have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI) based method to determine which lung-cancer patients may benefit from an expensive treatment called immunotherapy, an advance that may help reduce health care costs for underprivileged ...
Cystic Fibrosis is the most common fatal genetic disease affecting Canadian children and young adults. At the present day, there is no cure. However, huge steps have been taken in recent years to keep the disease at bay as much as possible and the recent ...
Tackling smoking, obesity and other key lifestyle factors could help to halve the rate of increase in cancer over the next 25 years, experts say. More than 200,000 Irish people are alive in 2019 having survived cancer, thanks to enhanced treatment systems and ...
ANI | Updated: Nov 24, 2019 20:25 IST. Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 24 (ANI): Lack of sleep is probably the reason for more cardiovascular diseases among the disadvantaged groups, says a recent study. People with lower socio-economic status sleep less ...
New York, Nov 23 : Scientists who have pioneered the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to predict whether chemotherapy will be successful, can now determine which lung-cancer patients will benefit from expensive immunotherapy. Researchers used AI to find ...
Scientists who have pioneered the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to predict whether chemotherapy will be successful, can now determine which lung-cancer patients will benefit from expensive immunotherapy. Researchers used AI to find previously unseen ...
Washington, Nov 23 (PTI) Researchers have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI) based method to determine which lung-cancer patients may benefit from an expensive treatment called immunotherapy, an advance that may help reduce health care ...
Both obesity and smoking can have negative effects on bone health. A recent study led by a team at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) examined whether they also impact healing in patients who have undergone surgery for fractures of the wrist, ...
(Nanowerk News) An international team of scientists, led by the University of Manchester, has developed a metal-organic framework, or MOF, material that provides a selective, fully reversible and repeatable capability to capture a toxic air pollutant, nitrogen ...
Fine particle pollution exposure increases the risk for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Share Via Email. Published: 23rd November 2019 06:00 PM | Last Updated: 23rd November 2019 06:00 PM | A+A A-. Alzheimer in women, Alzheimer old ...
Gov. Kate Brown's six month ban on flavored nicotine and cannabis vaping products is on hold with new rulings Nov. 14 by the Oregon Court of Appeals. Last month, the Court temporarily halted the ban on only flavored nicotine vaping products. It has now ...
'Our findings are exciting because they show that immunotherapy could have an even greater impact if used earlier'. By Joanna Whitehead. Saturday, 23rd November 2019, 1:46 pm. Updated in 13 hours. Cases of head and neck cancer in the UK are rising in ...
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