A form of vitamin E has been identified as a "very strong culprit" in lung injuries related to vaping THC, health officials reported on Friday, a major advance in a frightening outbreak that has killed 40 people and sickened 2,051. Many patients with the ...
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say there's been a breakthrough in the investigation into the outbreak of vaping-related lung injuries that has led to the deaths of 39 people and sickened more than 2,000 others. Investigators ...
Roused in the middle of the night by a nurse's phone call, the parents headed quickly for the hospital where they'd left their newborn son in the neonatal intensive care unit. The calls kept coming as they hurried over, each update more alarming than the last.
NEW YORK — U.S. health officials reported a breakthrough Friday in their investigation into the cause of a mysterious outbreak of vaping illnesses. A government lab found the same chemical compound in fluid taken from the lungs of 29 patients across the ...
Federal health officials have identified vitamin E acetate in the lung fluids of 29 people sickened in the outbreak of dangerous vaping-related lung injuries. The discovery is a "breakthrough" that points to the oil as a likely culprit in the outbreak that has ...
(Reuters Health) - Many insured Americans go out of network for mental health services, a new study suggests, despite the higher costs to them and despite a federal law mandating that policies' mental health coverage be at least as good as their physical ...
FRIDAY, Nov. 8, 2019 (American Heart Association News) -- Washington Heights, a historic neighborhood on Chicago's far South Side, faces the modern-day challenge of boosting health, education and economic opportunities for its residents. At the forefront ...
New Orleans, LA - A diagnostic study of 136 premature infants found that a protein involved in managing harmful bacteria in the human intestine is a reliable biomarker for the noninvasive detection of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Led by researchers and ...
Considering the number of times Nita Jestila's body has turned on her, it's a wonder the 71-year-old Blue Springs grandmother can describe all her medical problems with a smile on her face. She's had breast cancer, twice. She has 15 tiny titanium coils inside ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — After four decades of using strong prescription drugs to treat Crohn's disease, a chronic digestive disorder, Patty developed an aggressive form of skin cancer. "It's because my body has been suppressed for so long, it can't fight it ...
People who have trouble sleeping may be at higher risk of heart disease and stroke according to a new study published today in the medical journal Neurology. Researchers from Peking University in Beijing China followed 487,200 Chinese adults for a ...
Flu activity increased again last week, and though illnesses are at relatively low levels, all three strains are circulating, including plenty of influenza B, especially in the southern states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its ...
DENVER (CBS4) – A Colorado mother did everything she was supposed to, from getting routine mammograms to eating right. But it was an extra measure that helped Victoria Martin find out she had breast cancer, and ultimately it saved her life.
Dr. Lynn D'Andrea thought she was dealing with an infection when two teenage boys struggling to breathe arrived in intensive care at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin over the Fourth of July week. The teens had fevers and coughs and were fatigued, ...
LOS ANGELES, CA — California's fledgling flu season is officially one month old, and it's already proven deadly. So far this season, three people have died from influenza statewide. It's too early to be certain what kind of flu season California is in for, but there ...
eGenesis, a developer of human-compatible organs created through its own multiplexed gene editing platform, has raised $100 million in Series B financing. eGenesis—whose co-founders include George Church, PhD, of Harvard Medical School—said that it ...
It's de ja what bleep all over again. Just a month ago, I wrote for Forbes about how 16 students in Indianapolis, Indiana, were accidentally given insulin when they thought that they were getting tuberculosis tests. Then on Wednesday, Saundra Adams reported ...
(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 ...
The infants at the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pa., neonatal intensive care unit were tiny, with some born 27 weeks premature. In July, some started to get ill. One by one, the number of sick babies climbed to eight. Between August and September, ...
As the outbreak of lung injuries and deaths associated with e-cigarettes, or vaping, continues to spread across the U.S., researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City have effectively developed a best practice treatment guide to quickly identify and ...
Two people are being treated in Scotland for the potentially deadly diphtheria infection. NHS Lothian has confirmed the two cases are related and both patients are thought to be in hospital in Edinburgh. The health board said those involved had recently ...
A Pennsylvania hospital said Friday it has discovered the source of a waterborne germ that sickened at least eight premature infants, killing three. Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania said the process it was using to prepare donor breast milk ...
It's natural for viruses to mutate and change into different strains: that's why doctors advise people to get a new flu shot every year. But for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), scientists had not documented a new strain of the virus since 2000. A new study ...
Spanish health authorities confirmed Friday a case of a man spreading dengue through sex, a world first for a virus which until recently was thought to be transmitted only by mosquitos. The case concerns a 41-year-old man from Madrid who contracted ...
DANVILLE, Pennsylvania ( AP)-A Pennsylvania hospital said Friday it has discovered the source of a waterborne germ that sickened at least eight premature infants, killing three. Geisinger Medical Center in Danville said the process it was using to prepare ...
Does an apple a day really keep the doctor away? We decided to see if this old saying was true. And, lo and behold, there actually was a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2015, titled "Association between Apple ...
U.S. health officials announced a breakthrough Friday into the cause of a mysterious outbreak of vaping illnesses, reporting they have a "very strong culprit." The same chemical compound was found in fluid taken from the lungs of 29 patients across the ...
A new survey has found that turning to Google for health issues may be doing some patients more harm than good, with two in five respondents found to have falsely convinced themselves they had a serious disease after browsing the web. The survey ...
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. – Ten people at a facility for those with intellectual disabilities were hospitalized after they were injected with what authorities suspect was insulin rather than flu shots. Emergency responders were called Wednesday afternoon to the ...
A Pennsylvania hospital said Friday it has discovered the source of a waterborne germ that sickened at least eight premature infants, killing three. Geisinger Medical Center in Danville said the process it was using to prepare donor breast milk led to the deadly ...
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center published new guidance Friday for doctors looking to diagnose lung injuries caused by vaping.The article, published in the journal Lancet Respiratory Medicine, examined a series of patients who ...
NEW YORK – Flu season is heating up as health experts report 189 new cases of the illness in New York in the week ending Nov. 2, a 48 percent increase on the seven days earlier. Of them, 44 people were hospitalized, up by 22%, according to the state's ...
SOMERVILLE - Somerset County provided 1,800 free hepatitis A vaccines after a deli worker at the borough ShopRite was confirmed as being infected with the virus, the county announced Friday afternoon. In its continuing response to the ShopRite of ...
Oswego County, N.Y. — Oswego County health officials have reported an outbreak of hepatitis A throughout the county. According to the Oswego County Health Department, there have been 53 confirmed cases since June 2019. "Hepatitis A is a highly ...
OSWEGO, N.Y. – Oswego residents are being urged to wash their hands and not share drinking cups because of a growing outbreak of the highly contagious hepatitis A virus. Since June there have been 53 confirmed cases of the liver infection in Oswego ...
Patients suffering from chronic pain could find ease by becoming virtually immersed in scenes of icebergs, frozen oceans and sprawling icescapes, a study has shown. Imperial College London scientists have demonstrated that wearing VR headsets which ...
Contaminated donor breast milk turned out to be the culprit in an incident last month in which eight premature infants were infected with bacteria in a neonatal intensive care unit of a Pennsylvania hospital. Three of those infants died. Following an internal ...
The Oakland County Health Division is reporting its first flu-related death of the season. A 69-year-old Oakland County man has died of a flu-associated illness, the first for the flu season, which began Oct. 1, according to a release from county health officials.
The Hill Country's off-again, on-again winter weather is the prime time to get influenza and be calling work to say you're sick. And what that feels like won't be a nice day, or two or three, off. Pam Burton, infection control nurse at Peterson Regional Medical ...
The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners will hold two public hearings, one next week and one in December, to get input on health officials' proposals for curbing flavored nicotine product sales. While the county's efforts to reduce flavored nicotine ...
Older people should up their exercise levels once they hit 60 to help cut their risk of heart attack and stroke, new research suggests. People who started exercising after being continuously inactive had a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease of up to 11 per ...
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, Nov. 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Only two-thirds of lung cancer patients in the United States get the minimal recommended treatment, a new study finds. And race and age appear to play a role in who ...
The Douglas County Health Department is investigating a "potential outbreak" of Hepatitis A in Omaha. Over the last three weeks, five people, all female, have contracted the disease. The ages of the individuals ranges from 14 to 73. Advertisement.
2019-11-08 14:30:00. Aislinn Antrim, Assistant Editor. Researchers at Abbott Laboratories have announced the discovery of a new strain of HIV, which they said will keep the global medical community another step ahead of the disease. The discovery is the ...
yanyong/iStockBy Dr. Angelo Landriscina. (NEW YORK) — People who have trouble sleeping may be at higher risk of heart disease and stroke according to a new study published today in the medical journal Neurology. Researchers from Peking University in ...
MADRID (AFP) - Spanish health authorities confirmed Friday (Nov 8) a case of a man spreading dengue through sex, a world first for a virus which until recently was thought to be transmitted only by mosquitoes. The case concerns a 41-year-old man from ...
An investigation is under way after 10 people in Oklahoma who thought they were getting flu shots were apparently injected with insulin instead and wound up hospitalized. It happened Wednesday at Jacquelyn House, a group home in Bartlesville. Eight of ...
A lethal virus that killed tens of thousands of harbor seals in the northern Atlantic in 2002 suddenly spread to sea lions, seals and otters in the northern Pacific Ocean two years later, confusing scientists, as NBC News reported. How could the pathogen that ...
OHIO — A new study using sophisticated brain scans found an association between screen use and the development of young children's brains, especially in areas related to language development, reinforcing the messages about minimizing screen time for ...
Pimples and acne can be our worst enemies. While that pimple (read: Mr Bob) pops right before 'that time of the month' — or stays a diligent enemy for years — it is, at the end of the day, an unwanted guest. After all, we all wish for clear skin. There are ...
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