A new vaccine to prevent dengue may be on the horizon. And health officials say it's desperately needed. The World Health Organization this year listed dengue as one of the top 10 threats to global health. The mosquito-borne disease is a growing threat for ...
GLASGOW — The promise of simple, blood-based tests to detect cancers earlier and hopefully improve outcomes took a step closer with two studies, in breast cancer patients and individuals suspected of having a brain tumour, presented at NCRI Cancer ...
The stomach acid-blocking drug Zantac was prescribed more than 15 million times a year with little worry about the safety of the medication, available for decades. But it's been harder to get the drug since September, when the Food and Drug Administration ...
When a deadly virus that killed tens of thousands of European harbor seals in the northern Atlantic Ocean in 2002 began threatening sea lions, seals and otters in the northern Pacific Ocean, scientists were initially puzzled. The highly contagious phocine ...
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 6, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. veteran who received a total penis and scrotum transplant last year is faring better than anyone expected, his doctors say. In March 2018, the soldier -- who was ...
Bavarian Nordic today announced that it and its partner Janssen Pharmaceuticals, part of Johnson & Johnson, have submitted an application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for approval of their investigational two-dose Ebola vaccine regimen ...
(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) said on Thursday it had filed for an approval from European regulators for its two-dose experimental vaccine to protect against Ebola, less than a month after the agency recommended approval of Merck & Co Inc's (MRK ...
Scientists have confirmed the existence of an additional strain of HIV that has been around for decades, according to findings published Wednesday in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The strain is not new; rather, what's changed is the ...
Have you gotten your flu shot yet? No? Might I suggest you do so as soon as you're able? It's worth it, both for your own sake and for the sake of herd immunity — even if the flu vaccine doesn't protect against everything to which you could fall prey during flu ...
(CNN) Ten people at a care facility in Oklahoma were hospitalized after they were injected with insulin instead of a flu shot, police said. Eight of the patients were residents of Jacquelyn House and two were employees, Sgt. Jim Warring, with Bartlesville Police ...
A delay in delivering the flu vaccine to children in schools across NI should not cause parents to panic, according to the Public Health Agency (PHA). NI Assistant Director of Public Health, Dr Gerry Waldron, told the BBC that the disruption to supply may lead ...
A year and a half after his surgery, a penis and scrotum transplant recipient has nearly full functionality, his Johns Hopkins transplant team reported in a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine. "He can urinate, gets erections, and has recovered ...
With a national ban on sales of most e-cigarette flavors expected any day, Juul has stopped selling its mint-flavored pods shown to be extremely popular among kids who use the company's products. Juul previously stopped selling mango, creme and ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - An outbreak of African swine fever in Indonesia's North Sumatra province has been detected by laboratory tests carried out after the deaths of thousands of pigs in the area this week, an agriculture ministry official said on Friday.
Patients hospitalized for heart problems may be at greater risk of dying within a year of discharge when they live alone or feel lonely, a Danish study suggests. Social isolation has long been linked to worse health outcomes and shortened life spans, ...
Most parts of the United States observe daylight saving time. Many people are prone to seasonal depression during the fall and winter. Research indicates that daylight saving time can increase the symptoms of seasonal depression for some people.
Think of the Earth as a vast pan and the seasonal influenza epidemic as the water inside it. Give that pan a nudge, and a wave hits the opposite side then bounces back towards you. That analogy helps explain why we might not have a terrible flu season here ...
Using cells from human breast cancers and mouse breast cancer models, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have significant new evidence that tumor cells exposed to low-oxygen conditions have an advantage when it comes ...
With the falling leaves and cooling temperatures, the shift into late autumn will also curtail one other mainstay of the warmer months: those pesky mosquitos. But there's more at stake this year in the otherwise humdrum dropping-off of the winged nuisance.
Several residents and staff members at a group home for the developmentally disabled in Bartlesville, Okla., were hospitalized Wednesday evening after they were mistakenly injected with insulin, according to a local report. A currently unnamed pharmacist ...
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. — Ten people at an Oklahoma care facility for people with intellectual disabilities were hospitalized after they were apparently accidentally injected with what's believed to be insulin rather than flu shots, authorities said. Emergency ...
A surgeon has implanted electrodes in the brain of a patient suffering from severe opioid use disorder, hoping to cure the man's intractable craving for drugs in the first such procedure performed in the United States. The device, known as a deep brain ...
Although we know that a warming Arctic is bad for the creatures who rely on its ice, this region—which is heating up three times faster than the rest of the planet—is still poorly understood. A new study from the University of California, Davis, sheds some light ...
(Reuters Health) - During deep sleep, the brain may be tidying up the detritus that accumulates during a hard day of thinking, a recent study suggests. Researchers have found that during slow-wave sleep in particular - the type of slumber sandwiched ...
Researchers have identified a protein critical to controlling replication of West Nile and Zika viruses. The discovery could be important for developing therapies to treat and prevent the viruses. Researchers found Z-DNA binding protein 1 (ZBP1) is a sensor ...
Research in the latest edition of the European Journal of Anaesthesiology (the official journal of the European Society of Anaesthesiology) reports the potential dangers of allowing skin-to-skin contact for mother and baby in the operating room, following a ...
The human brain is even more incredible than we thought, a new study out of Israel suggests. Doctors there say they've found people who can smell just as well as anyone else, despite missing the key area of the brain responsible for olfaction. According to ...
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. — Authorities say 10 people at an Oklahoma care facility for people with intellectual disabilities were hospitalized after they were injected with what's believed to be insulin rather than flu shots. Police Chief Tracy Roles says emergency ...
Public Health England (PHE) is telling GPs to prioritise at-risk under-18s for this year's nasal flu vaccine due to a delay in supplies from the manufacturer of around a quarter of the overall amount of vaccine ordered by the NHS. AstraZeneca advised PHE that ...
SALT LAKE CITY — November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. More than 30.3 million Americans have diabetes, according to the CDC, and chances are you know someone — or are someone — with diabetes. As a registered dietitian and certified ...
The first native cases of Zika in Europe have been confirmed after three people became infected with the virus in France. Experts warn that climate change could lead to more cases emerging across the continent. Three people caught Zika in Hyères, southern ...
Posted by Edited Press Release | Nov 7, 2019 | Article, Diseases and Conditions, Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), Horse Care, Horse Industry News, Welfare and Industry. Favorite. Share: ADVERTISEMENT. Michigan Horse Euthanized Following EEE ...
(CNN) - The first native cases of Zika in Europe have been confirmed after three people became infected with the virus in France. Experts warn that climate change could lead to more cases emerging across the continent. Three people caught Zika in Hyères, ...
(CNN) - It appears the quality of your relationships with your extended family -- mom, dad, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents and more --- could make a real difference in your health as you age, maybe even more than your special love. A new study finds ...
In Type2 diabetes, insulin, which is the hormone created by the pancreas, fails to function properly. In most cases, the pancreas is unable to produce enough insulin, resulting in the rapid increase of blood sugar levels. If sugar levels in the blood stay too high, ...
People who are being treated for HIV can gain effective protection against seasonal flu with the influenza (flu) vaccine, new findings confirm. Since people living with HIV can have an impaired immune system and may be at higher risk of serious illness from ...
A 69-year-old man is dead in Oakland County's first flu death of the season, announced the county's heath division Thursday. "Vaccination is the most effective protection against the flu," said Dr. Russell Faust, medical director for Oakland County in a news ...
A couple's love-making has nearly ended in tragedy after the woman experienced an anaphylactic reaction to a medication her husband was taking, which she got exposed to through his semen. According to 'A Cautionary Coital Tale', a case report published ...
Women represent two-thirds of Alzheimer's disease patients, according to the Alzheimer's Association, but when it comes to the diagnosis of early forms of memory loss, their symptoms are less likely to be detected than in male patients. Researchers at UC ...
By Jason Beaubien | NPR Thursday, November 7, 2019. Residents of Wanasari village in Indonesia independently carry out fumigation in their neighborhood to eradicate the larvae of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that cause Dengue Fever on February 11, 2019 ...
By NewsDesk @bactiman63. Singapore health officials report seeing 18 dengue-related fatalities in 2019, the most since 2007. To date, 13,853 dengue fever cases have been reported in Singapore, the most in three years and the numbers show an uptick in ...
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. — Ten people at a care facility in Oklahoma were hospitalized after they were injected with insulin instead of a flu shot, police said. Eight of the patients were residents of Jacquelyn House and two were employees, Sgt. Jim Warring, with ...
The National Institute on Aging has awarded a $17.2 million grant to University of Washington School of Medicine assistant professor of ophthalmology Cecilia Lee, MD, to lead a research team looking to make connections between eye diseases and ...
Paris (AFP) - Vaping devices and the chemicals they deliver -- increasingly popular among teens -- may damage the cardiovascular system, a study said Thursday, adding to a growing chorus of concern over injury and deaths related to e-cigarettes. The latest ...
Ten people in Oklahoma were hospitalized after being injected with insulin instead of a flu shot, local authorities confirmed to CNN. Eight of the patients were residents of Jacquelyn House, a facility that serves intellectually and developmentally disabled ...
Nearly a dozen staff and residents at an Oklahoma group home that cares for the developmentally disabled were hospitalized after receiving insulin instead of flu shots. A local pharmacist had been brought to Jacquelyn House in Bartlesville to administer ...
In melanoma patients, elevated serum levels of vitamin D appear to be helpful. Tumors are thinner. Outcomes are improved. But how, exactly, are these benefits realized? To answer this question, researchers at the University of Leeds scrutinized the ...
Parasitic eye worms may have crawled into the eye of a trail runner while she was jogging in California's Carmel Valley. The runner, a 68-year-old woman from Nebraska who spends her winters in the area, became only the second person known to have ...
Related video above: Weird, moving lump on woman's face turns out to be a live worm. Parasitic eye worms may have crawled into the eye of a trail runner while she was jogging in California's Carmel Valley. The runner, a 68-year-old woman from Nebraska ...
A rabid raccoon was discovered at the intersection of Baldridge Road and Porter Drive in the Admiral Heights Community. By Kristin Danley-Greiner, Patch Staff. Nov 7, 2019 2:26 pm ET. Reply. 0. Anyone who may have encountered a rabid raccoon seen at ...
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