We've seen recent spikes in measles infections. Some European countries, including the UK, lost their measles-free status and many developing countries, especially parts of Africa, Asia and Oceania are seeing frequent outbreaks. The Democratic Republic ...
Over the past year, health crises have sparked fears and dominated headlines across the globe. In Congo, an Ebola crisis that erupted the year before continued to grow, and violence against health workers hindered efforts to control it. In Samoa, a deadly ...
NEW YORK — On low-carb diets, meat and cheese are OK. On low-fat diets, fruit and oatmeal are fine. With the latest diet trend, no foods at all are allowed for long stretches of time. A diet that forbids eating for hours on end might seem doomed in a culture ...
(Reuters Health) - Opioid overdose deaths have spiked in the wake of automotive assembly plant closures across the U.S. South and Midwest, a new study suggests. FILE PHOTO: A syringe filled a narcotic, an empty syringe and a spoon sit on the roof of a car ...
Students not in compliance with updated state immunization requirements will not be allowed to return to school. By Lucas Combos, Patch Staff. Dec 31, 2019 10:58 am PT. Reply. 0. Other school districts sent similar warnings to families in the fall.
By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, Dec. 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Opioid addiction is tough enough to beat, but new research shows that having an accompanying methamphetamine habit may make quitting far more difficult.
The latest diet trend entails going for long stretches without eating anything, but obesity experts say research so far suggests it may not be any better than other diets for weight loss. By. CANDICE CHOI AP Food & Health Writer. December 31, 2019, 10:02 PM.
(Reuters Health) - Healthy young men who exercise regularly may have better quality semen than their sedentary peers, a study of sperm donors suggests. FILE PHOTO: Men work out using cement weights at the end of the day, on Diabo beach in Rio de ...
TUESDAY, Dec. 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Stomach cancer among many people under 60 appears more deadly than when it occurs to older people, a new study finds. This new form of cancer is genetically different from other stomach cancer and grows ...
Health officials say the flu has sickened hundreds of NJ residents in its most recent count, and a child has died. By Tom Davis, Patch Staff. Dec 31, 2019 12:57 pm ET | Updated Dec 31, 2019 12:58 pm ET ...
Giving antibiotics to infants may increase their risk for developing allergies, a new study suggests. Researchers used records of 798,426 children in the Military Health System database from 2001 to 2013, tracking their antibiotic prescriptions in infancy and ...
Community Hospitals is the latest health care chain to announce flu restrictions for visitors, joining Franciscan Health and Porter Regional Hospital. Children under 12, and anyone with flu-like symptoms are not allowed to visit patients, the rules state. No more ...
SEATTLE -- Hundreds of Seattle families are rushing to make sure their children can come back to school after Winter Break as if they're not in compliance with vaccination requirements, the district won't allow them in the classroom. A new state law that took ...
TUESDAY, Dec. 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Opioid addiction is tough enough to beat, but new research shows that having an accompanying methamphetamine habit may make quitting far more difficult. For the study, researchers looked at 799 people ...
'The Haymaker' is Leafly Deputy Editor Bruce Barcott's opinion column on cannabis politics and culture. If 2019 was the year of the vaping health crisis, 2020 will be a year of reckoning. The first question that must be asked is this: Why did American public ...
If you need any added incentive to stick to your New Year's resolutions, healthy lifestyle changes can reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. "There are things that you can do today — this very minute — to reduce your ...
A school-age child died from flu-related complications in Placer County, health officials said Tuesday. The child was healthy before contracting the flu and died at a hospital, the Placer County Public Health Department said. Advertisement. "The loss of a child ...
Placer County Public Health announced Tuesday that a school-age child died from complications from influenza at a regional hospital. Before contracting the flu, the child had been in good health. "The loss of a child to influenza is heartbreaking and we ...
Facebook has removed some advertisements containing what the company says is misleading health information about the HIV-prevention drug, Truvada, following an outcry from LBGTQ groups and politicians. "After a review, our independent fact checking ...
A measles outbreak in the United States has been festering for some time, with some areas of the country seeing spikes in new cases, doctor visits, and even hospitalizations. There are a handful of areas in the northwest that have been hit the hardest, and ...
Dozens of residents of Wuhan, the capital city of the Hubei province in China, haven hospitalized with an unidentified virus that is causing pneumonia-like symptoms. Chinese health officials have no idea how the virus is spreading or where it originated, but ...
New research led by experts at the St. Michael's Hospital of Unity Health Toronto has reported that children who consumed whole milk had a 40% reduced risk of becoming obese or overweight compared to those who drank milk with reduced-fat. Childhood ...
(CNN) When it comes to getting rid of prescription drugs, fewer than half of the pharmacies surveyed for a new study gave accurate guidance that met US Food and Drug Administration standards for disposing of unused opioids and antibiotics. Researchers ...
Looking to reboot your health in 2020? What you need to do is clear. "We should sit less, move more, sleep more and be mindful about what we eat," said Mercedes Carnethon, an epidemiologist and vice chair of the department of preventive medicine at ...
A hospital has apologised after a woman suffering a common throat infection was told she had cancer following a spell-check error. Nicola Denyer, 39, received a letter saying she had the condition two days after staff at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother ...
iStock(NEW YORK) — Facebook has removed some advertisements containing what the company says is misleading health information about the HIV-prevention drug, Truvada, following an outcry from LBGTQ groups and politicians. "After a review, our ...
New U.S. study finds more than 50% of infants and almost all toddlers are exceeding daily sugar intake. Marcy Cuttler · CBC News · Posted: Jan 01, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: in 9 hours. Eleven-month-old Sam Upper eats his snack, seated next to his ...
By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, Dec. 31, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Looking for a way to improve your memory, gain control over your emotions, and boost your ability to multitask? A new brain scan study may be just the incentive you need to ...
Throbbing heads, grumbling stomachs and a fuzzy feeling greets many after New Year's Eve celebrations. Pedialyte bottles. The replacement fluids Pedialyte provides could help relieve hangover symptoms — even if it's a placebo effect, some doctors say ...
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (WTVD) -- Three years ago, aging wasn't on Angela Vega's mind. Surviving was. The disease that claimed the life of her grandfather in the 1970s would soon become her own - diagnosed with breast cancer. "I think aging is beautiful," ...
Human Papilloma Virus, or HPV, is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Today, 79 million Americans, most in their late teens and early 20s, are infected with HPV. There are many different types of the HPV. In some cases HPV ...
When closing out the old year and welcoming in the new, one resolution that may be at the top of a few lists is losing weight, but the challenge is not just losing it, but also maintaining it. My journey for weight loss began on January 1, 2019, and going into ...
A Greater-Manchester woman had to learn to walk again for her university graduation after a mosquito bite in Asia nearly killed her. Donna Cox, 22, flew to south-east Asia to celebrate the end of her Master's degree and embark on what she hoped would be ...
MINNEAPOLIS - The scientific community has long believed that beta-amyloid, a protein that can clump together and form sticky plaques in the brain, is the first sign of Alzheimer's disease. Beta-amyloid then leads to other brain changes including ...
Dec. 31 (UPI) — Are pharmacists properly educating patients on the right way to dispose of unused medications? The results of an analysis published Tuesday in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggest the answer is "no." In a telephone survey, fewer than ...
East Africa has the highest rates of cervical cancer in the world, according to the World Health Organization. In October, Kenya launched a mass vaccination of girls against the human papillomavirus (HPV),which can lead to cervical cancer. For those who ...
The #6 story on our countdown of the Top Stories of 2019 marks the first time in 75 years that Guam recorded its first locally-acquired case of dangerous Dengue Fever. In September, the Department of Public Health went into full attack mode, activating their ...
A celebrity trend for using an intravenous drip as a hangover cure can cause huge damage to the body while "flushing hundreds of pounds down the toilet", the NHS has said. Some companies offer "party drips", claiming that an intravenous (IV) solution can ...
For sick or prematurely born babies spending their first days of life in a hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the soothing voice and gentle touch of a loving parent can have a tremendous impact toward a positive outcome—that is, unless mom or ...
Thanks to climate science, technology and the ever-increasing signs that the planet is showing, the last decade has given scientists more than enough time to learn a great deal about the climate, as well as the connection between a global crisis from it and ...
London: Researchers have identified a drug that can significantly reduce bone and cartilage progression in osteoarthritis. In a study, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, the researchers found that "MIV-711" - a novel selective cathepsin K ...
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Chinese experts are investigating an outbreak of respiratory illness in the central city of Wuhan that some have likened to the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic. The city's health commission said in a statement Tuesday that 27 people had fallen ill with a strain of ...
As our brains take in information about the world and use it to steer our actions, two key principles guide our choices: seek pleasure and avoid pain. Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have zeroed in on an information-processing hub in ...
A woman suffering from a yeast infection was wrongly told she had cancer after a new hospital speech recognition system mistakenly changed a word. Nicola Denyer, 39, was misdiagnosed by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (QEQM) Hospital in Margate ...
Many of us are aware of the importance of a healthy diet and exercise in order to lead a disease-free life but it is easier said than done. Thanks to the advancement in technology, health apps have made maintaining a balanced lifestyle mush easier than ...
New York: A team of researchers report a novel approach in which three different gene delivery vectors were injected intravenously and directly into the kidneys of mice, rekindling hope to treat kidney diseases with gene therapy. Before gene therapy can be ...
By NewsDesk @infectiousdiseasenews. The world's largest measles outbreak reached 299,586 cases through Dec 15 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). DRC map Democratic Republic of the Congo/CIA. The number of measles-related ...
A father has saved the lifetime of his eight-year-old son after donating a kidney to a stranger so the teen might obtain one from them in return. Harry Weir was recognized with a continual kidney illness aged two and has been severely sick most of his life, with ...
England's most senior doctor has warned people that quick-fix diets, high street remedies and weight loss pills are "too good to be true". After festive excesses, many people try to turn over a new leaf with pledges to lose weight, exercise more and drink less in ...
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