After decades of progress against one of the most contagious human viruses, the world is seeing measles stage a slow, steady comeback. The World Health Organization and the CDC say in a new report that there were nearly 10 million cases of measles last ...
Use of permanent hair dye or hair straightening chemicals were both associated with a higher risk for breast cancer than 'never use' — and the risks are particularly pronounced among black women, a new analysis of a 50,000-participant study shows.
More than 140,000 people died from measles last year as the number of cases around the world surged once again, official estimates suggest. Most of the lives cut short were children aged under five. The situation has been described by health experts as ...
Seven people in San Diego have died in the last two months from a flesh-eating bacteria associated with black-tar heroin use, prompting public health officials to warn the medical community to be on the lookout for additional cases. The San Diego County ...
(CNN) An alleged anti-vaxxer has been charged with "incitement against the government vaccination order," the Samoan government said Thursday. The government of the Pacific Island nation has shut down in a desperate attempt to fight a deadly measles ...
One of the first things that transplant doctors learn is that there are not enough organs to go around. We repeat it to our patients and ourselves and, in a way, it helps us to temper our expectations of saving every patient on our waiting list. But there isn't really ...
A measles outbreak in the Pacific island nation of Samoa has killed more than 60 people, prompting authorities to declare a two-day curfew to accelerate immunizations while taking aim at antivaccination groups. The government ordered businesses to close ...
Worldwide measles cases surged 17 percent so far this year amid stagnating immunization rates, the World Health Organization said on Friday. "The fact that any child dies from a vaccine-preventable disease like measles is frankly an outrage and a collective ...
Engineering better bnAbs. A highly effective HIV vaccine has been the goal of vaccinologists for nearly 35 years. A successful vaccine would need to induce broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) that are capable of neutralizing multiple HIV strains (see the ...
WASHINGTON -- Overall U.S. healthcare spending increased by 4.6% in 2018 -- higher than the 4.2% growth in 2017, but still representing a slight drop in healthcare's percentage of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP), the Centers for Medicare ...
A study designed to test the effectiveness of a controversial practice known as "abortion pill reversal" has been stopped early because of safety concerns. Researchers from the University of California, Davis, were investigating claims that the hormone ...
LONDON, Dec 5 — Measles infected nearly 10 million people in 2018 and killed 140,000, mostly children, as devastating outbreaks of the viral disease hit every region of the world, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. In figures described by its ...
(SAN DIEGO) — A flesh-eating bacteria linked to the use of black tar heroin has killed at least seven people over the past two months in the San Diego area, prompting health authorities to alert law enforcement and other officials in California. Nine people ...
Health officials urged people eligible for the influenza vaccine to get vaccinated after figures showed the flu season is underway in the UK. Public Health England (PHE) said evidence so far suggested that the vaccine was a good match for the main strain of ...
Samoa has arrested an anti-vaccination campaigner as the country continues to battle a deadly measles outbreak. Edwin Tamasese was charged with incitement against a government order after he was detained on Thursday. The outbreak - which has killed ...
SAN DIEGO — A flesh-eating bacteria linked to the use of black tar heroin has killed at least seven people over the past two months in San Diego County, authorities said. Nine people who injected black tar heroin between Oct. 2 and Nov. 24 were ...
Samoa arrested a prominent local anti-vaccination activist, as authorities carry out a mass vaccination campaign in the Pacific island nation in response to a measles epidemic that has caused 63 deaths so far. Anti-vaccination activist Edwin Tamasese was ...
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, today announced that it will create and fund an emergency Ebola vaccine stockpile, part of efforts meant to streamline the response to the next outbreak, as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reported 5 new cases in the ...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A flesh-eating bacteria linked to the use of black tar heroin has killed at least seven people over the past two months in the San Diego area, prompting health authorities to alert law enforcement and other officials in California. Nine people ...
(CNN) Permanent hair dye and chemical hair straightener use was linked to a higher risk of breast cancer in a new study from researchers at the National Institutes of Health. The risk is more than six times higher for black women. The study, published ...
Protein levels in people's blood can predict their age, a Stanford study led by Tony Wyss-Coray has found. Norbert von der Groeben. The carnival worker who tries to guess your age relies on aspects of your appearance, such as your posture and whether any ...
Women who take the birth control pill have a smaller hypothalamus than those who do not, and report anger and depression more often, report researchers. "The mean difference in volume of hypothalamus was about 6%, about 60 μL," said Michael Lipton, ...
(Reuters) - U.S. Food and Drug Administration staffers reviewing Correvio Pharma Corp's heart drug said on Friday they did not believe the benefits of the therapy outweighed its risks, sending the company's shares down nearly 38%. The drug, Brinavess ...
CHICAGO – In preliminary studies, focused ultrasound directed at the blood-brain barrier briefly made it more porous, which could be a means to allow drugs into Alzheimer's patients' brains or permit toxins to escape. In the phase II safety trial, researchers ...
LONDON — The vaccine alliance GAVI announced Thursday it would invest $178 million to create a global stockpile of about 500,000 Ebola vaccines, a decision that health officials say could help prevent future outbreaks from spiraling out of control.
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Though weight-loss surgery can do wonders for your waistline, a new study suggests it might also reverse subtle damage to your heart. The research included 38 obese ...
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A lung disease that normally strikes in the workplace has been linked to vaping in a new report. A 49-year-old California woman who vaped marijuana came down with ...
By Elizabeth Heubeck HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- If you're in the throes of a stroke, being stuck in an ambulance in big-city traffic is the last place you want to be -- unless you're riding in a specially equipped ...
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes are more likely to develop in individuals who were born preterm vs. those born at full term, according to findings published in Diabetologia. "Because of improved treatment of preterm birth, over 95% of preterm infants now survive ...
Look alive, America — your haphazard cellphone use could land you in the emergency room. The incidence of head and neck injuries related to cellphone use has risen steadily over the past two decades, according to a new study from researchers at ...
Seven people in San Diego have died in recent months from a "flesh eating" infection tied to use of black tar heroin, according to health officials. On Wednesday (Dec. 4), the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency announced that nine people ...
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Imagine a blood test that could spot whether you are aging too quickly. New research suggests it's not the stuff of science fiction anymore. The scientists analyzed plasma ...
NEW YORK – The seeds of a childhood kidney cancer can be present even in tissue that appears normal, a new sequencing analysis has found. While kidney cancer in children is rare, the most common type is Wilms tumor, which mostly affects children ...
By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Three drugs used to treat severe seizures in epilepsy patients are equally effective, a new study finds. The three medications -- levetiracetam (Keppra and ...
Birth control pills work great if women remember to take them every day, but missing doses can mean a surprise pregnancy. Now scientists have figured out how to pack a month's supply into one capsule. The trick: A tiny star-shaped gadget that unfolds in the ...
Seven people in San Diego have died from a flesh-eating bacterial infection linked to black tar heroin use, according to local health officials. Over the last two months, nine people were admitted to San Diego hospitals for severe myonecrosis infections. All but ...
2019-12-05 19:45:00. Lina Poindexter, PharmD Candidate; Brittany McCoy, PharmD Candidate; and Rebecca Chater, RPh, MPH, FAPhA. The first double lung transplant due to injuries sustained from vaping was given to a boy, age 17 years, on October 15, ...
SAN DIEGO — A company that claims to have the first drug to slow mental decline from Alzheimer's disease made its case to scientists Thursday, disclosing more results that may help explain why one study of the experimental medicine succeeded and ...
By Rich Holmes HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The more often young teens turn to social media, the more prone they are to eating disorders, new research suggests. While the study does not prove social media use ...
Women who initiate medical abortion but opt to stop in the middle of treatment may be at risk for serious blood loss, a UC Davis Health study finds. Researchers found this is true even for women who use an experimental treatment that claims to "reverse" the ...
The vaccine alliance GAVI announced Thursday it would invest $178 million to create a global stockpile of about 500,000 Ebola vaccines, a decision that health officials say could help prevent future outbreaks from spiraling out of control. The public-private ...
When it comes to birth control, taking a daily pill is kind of a pain. Missing a dose, or even delaying it by just a few hours, can seriously raise the risk of unintended pregnancy. For women who prefer oral contraceptives, but want to ditch the inflexible schedule ...
A sort of physiological clock—levels of 373 proteins in your blood—can predict your age, according to a new study. "We've known for a long time that measuring certain proteins in the blood can give you information about a person's health status—lipoproteins ...
Female survivors of domestic abuse are at double the risk of developing long-term illnesses that cause widespread bodily pain and extreme tiredness, shows a study by the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick. Published today (Dec 6th GMT) in the ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio - The City of Cleveland is appealing a decision by the Ohio Department of Health to not renew $1.5 million in grants for an HIV/AIDS program. The city stated on Tuesday that the aid was cut off without explanation, but the state refuted that ...
Peanut allergies could become a thing of the past as breakthrough research from the University of South Australia develops a radically novel vaccination that's poised to cure the potentially life threatening condition. The vaccine uniquely uses a virus-based ...
A hepatitis A outbreak linked to fresh blackberries sold at Fresh Thyme Farmers Market stores has now sickened at least 16 people across six states, federal health officials announced this week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in ...
FRIDAY, Dec. 6, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Levels of the widely used chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in people's bodies are much higher than once thought, according to scientists who say they've created a more accurate way to measure them. BPA is used in ...
A study published in the International Journal of Cancer suggested that there is a correlation between breast cancer risk and the use of chemical straighteners and permanent hair dye, especially among black women.1. Separate evaluation results between ...
(CNN) -- A national program is set to provide free HIV-prevention drugs to uninsured Americans at risk of HIV, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced Tuesday. "Ready, Set, PrEP" will provide about 200,000 Americans annually ...
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