After the Twin Towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, the thousands of people involved in rescue-and-cleanup efforts were exposed to carcinogens and other toxins as they breathed in contaminated air and dug through industrial rubble. Studies completed since then ...
This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hello. I'm Paul Auwaerter with Medscape Infectious Diseases. 2019 has closed and we moved into 2020. There have been many important and exciting areas of advancement [in infectious diseases] but also areas of ...
(CNN) If you're feeling bone-deep mental and physical exhaustion, or what is otherwise known as burnout, new research suggests you could be at a higher risk for a potentially fatal heart flutter. Atrial fibrillation, also called AFib or AF, is the most common ...
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, Jan. 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The idea of marijuana causing a psychotic breakdown sounds like something out of the camp film classic "Reefer Madness," but many experts argue it's not that ...
The students and staff of Bishop Lynch High School are grieving after a 16-year-old student who had the flu died suddenly last week. Dallas County health officials are working to confirm Teresa "Reese" Termulo's death was related to the flu after the Catholic ...
The first novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection has been detected outside of China, in a woman who traveled from Wuhan to Thailand, a development that the World Health Organization (WHO) said isn't surprising but has triggered discussions about convening ...
Anyone who has attended a class reunion has seen firsthand that people age in different ways. Some former classmates appear to have aged a century within just a few decades, while others look just as they did fresh from 11th grade English class.
Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors may reduce the risk for gout among adults with type 2 diabetes, new research suggests. The study, involving more than 200,000 individuals from a US commercial insurance database, was published online ...
BANGKOK — A Chinese visitor to Thailand has been confirmed to be infected with a new strain of coronavirus that has been linked to a pneumonia outbreak in central China, health officials said Monday. The U.N.'s World Health Organization said Thai ...
ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis and Britain's National Health Service (NHS) on Monday announced a pact that will clear the way for accelerated review by the country's health watchdog NICE for heart drug inclisiran, which could make it broadly available as ...
Chinese authorities have detected a new outbreak of a coronavirus. While this is the same family as the SARS virus, it appears to be a new disease. The disease has been connected to a seafood market in China, but the investigation is still ongoing. Chinese ...
When patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) show symptom relief from weight loss, it may be from fat reduction in one relatively small part of the body, researchers suggested. OSA patients in the 67-person study who lost, on average, around 10% of ...
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, Jan. 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- If climate change continues unabated, the United States should prepare for an increase in deaths from injuries, a new study claims. Looking at data on injury deaths and ...
Most areas of North America are in the throes of a flu season marked by an unusual early dominance of influenza B, a strain not typically seen in large numbers until the later months of the flu season. "We had a paucity of influenza B last year, so we may have ...
With months to go in this year's flu season, the flu shot remains the best way to protect yourself from the potentially debilitating virus. In fact, even if you've already been sick with the flu this season, it's still important to get a flu shot if you haven't yet done so.
TUESDAY, Jan. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Feeling exhausted, with too few hours in the day to do what needs to be done? Be careful of burnout -- especially after a new study finds it can raise your risk for the dangerous irregular heartbeat known as atrial ...
(New York, NY - January 14, 2020) - Responders who worked at the World Trade Center site after the attacks on September 11, 2001, have an increased overall cancer incidence compared to the general population, particularly in thyroid cancer, prostate ...
Tracking sugar in the blood is crucial for both healthy individuals and diabetic patients. Current methods to measure glucose requires needles and repeated fingerpicks over the day. Fingerpicks can often be painful, deterring patient compliance.
MONDAY, Jan. 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- One-year survival rates are similar for transplant patients who receive a heart from a donor with hepatitis C or one without the infectious virus, a new study finds. The researchers suggest that using hearts from ...
Deaths from boozing and binging more than doubled in the last two decades, as alcohol consumption per person rose 8%, with sharp increases in the rate for women and the middle-aged. »RELATED: Give up alcohol for Dry January to boost energy and lose ...
Any news of a pneumonia cluster from an unknown pathogen is worrisome, but especially when it conjures memories of SARS-CoV (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus) and the lack of information sharing that occurred in 2003. Thankfully, this ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Five years ago, he went to the McKay Dee Hospital emergency room for a dislocated shoulder. Monday he stood in court to confront the nurse who infected him that day with hepatitis C and is now headed to prison. Identified only as ...
NORTH CAROLINA — Only four states are not seeing widespread flu activity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's first influenza report of 2020, and North Carolina isn't one of them. Still, on Friday, government health officials reported ...
A traveller in Thailand has become the first person outside China to be diagnosed with a new coronavirus. The Chinese woman was quarantined after arriving in Bangkok from Wuhan, in eastern China, where the outbreak began in December. One person ...
(CNN) — A 4-year-old girl in Iowa nearly died and is now blind because of the flu, and her parents have a message: Get your child vaccinated. "If I can stop one child from getting sick, that's what I want to do," said Amanda Phillips. "It's terrible to see your child ...
Americans have more than 600,000 knee replacements each year. That number is expected to reach 1.28 million by 2030. A new study finds that 90 percent of patients with osteoarthritis in their knees wait too long to get a replacement. Experts devised a new ...
Patients shouldn't be prescribed melatonin for jet lag on the NHS, and its use for this indication should be added to the list of treatments that are not routinely funded by the health service, concludes an expert review in Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin. Jet lag is ...
Published on January 13, 2020. tau sleep loss. A preliminary study has found that when young, healthy men were deprived of just one night of sleep, they had higher levels of tau, a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease, in their blood than when they had a full, ...
If you're feeling bone-deep mental and physical exhaustion, or what is otherwise known as burnout, new research suggests you could be at a higher risk for a potentially fatal heart flutter. Atrial fibrillation, also called AFib or AF, is the most common heart ...
The flu has blinded a 4-year-old girl in Iowa, according to her mother, who is now urging others to ensure their loved ones are vaccinated against the virus. Jade DeLucia, of Waterloo, began showing signs of illness in the days before Christmas, but her ...
The mother of an 11-year-old Hamburg, New York boy who recently died from flu-related complications doesn't want her son to be remembered as "just a statistic" but rather as "the wonderful boy he was." Luca Calanni died Saturday at Oishei Children's ...
A 2 degrees Celsius rise in temperatures could result in around 2,100 additional deaths from injuries every year in the United States. This is the finding of research from Imperial College London, Columbia University and Harvard University, published in the ...
(CNN) — This year's flu vaccine is "not a very good match" for a common strain of the flu that's especially tough on children, according to the nation's top infectious disease doctor. "It's not a very good match for B/Victoria," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the ...
Findings of the largest genome-wide association study of anxiety traits to date have revealed new insights into genetic risk mechanisms shared by anxiety and related psychiatric disorders, researchers wrote in American Journal of Psychiatry. "In this genetic ...
The hormone melatonin should not be available on the NHS to help treat jet lag, a review of the evidence has concluded. Melatonin is a hormone produced in the body during darkness that plays a role in the body clock and helps to regulate sleep cycles.
Patients shouldn't be prescribed melatonin for jet lag on the NHS, and its use for this indication should be added to the list of treatments that are not routinely funded by the health service, concludes an expert review in Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (dtb).
Mississippi game officials are seeing a disturbing increase in the number of deer testing positive for chronic wasting disease, but Alabama officials say don't push the panic button. The deadly brain disease has been found in or is suspected in 40 Mississippi ...
The US is only about three months into the 2019–2020 flu season, and the illness has already left its mark—but it's a little different this year. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since October 2019, 9.7 million flu illnesses, 87,000 ...
WHO published a list of 10 global health challenges for the next decade that it said "reflects a deep concern that leaders are failing to invest enough resources in core health priorities and systems." "None of these issues are simple to address, but they are ...
A temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit — as predicted under the Paris Climate Agreement without a mitigation plan — would cause an additional 1,600 injury deaths every year in the United States, according to a study ...
For 20 years, the U.S. government has urged companies, universities, and other institutions that conduct clinical trials to record their results in a federal database, so doctors and patients can see whether new treatments are safe and effective. Few trial ...
2020-01-14 15:52:00. Jennifer Nessel, Assistant Editor. An annual report from the American Cancer Society (ACS) has found that the mortality rate from cancer in the United States has declined by 29% from 1991 to 2017, including a 2.2% drop from 2016 to ...
ZURICH — Novartis and Britain's National Health Service (NHS) on Monday announced a pact that will clear the way for accelerated review by the country's health watchdog NICE for heart drug inclisiran, which could make it broadly available as soon as ...
Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) have discovered a novel feedback pathway from the brain to the eye that modulates eye pressure—a significant advancement in the effort to diagnose and treat glaucoma. Glaucoma is associated with ...
Netflix's Sex Education return to screens this Friday (17 January) with its second season. In case you haven't seen season 1 yet, the hit show is about a student named Otis, who becomes the go-to person for sex advice at the high school he attends, thanks to ...
WHO is working with Thai officials after woman who travelled from China is hospitalised with new strain of coronavirus. Lily Kuo in Beijing. Tue 14 Jan 2020 01.44 EST Last modified on Tue 14 Jan 2020 01.46 EST. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Utah nurse who stole painkillers and infected several patients with hepatitis C has been sentenced to five years in prison. The Salt Lake Tribune reports 53-year-old Elet Neilson was sentenced Monday after previously ...
A twice-a-year injection that reduces bad cholesterol to protect the heart is to be pioneered by the NHS in England. Already, millions of people take daily statin pills to cut their cholesterol. But later this year, a "ground-breaking" large-scale clinical trial will offer ...
An unusually potent B strain of influenza has swept across Southern California, causing a surge in hospitalizations, ABC reported. By Nick Garber, Patch Staff. Jan 13, 2020 11:51 am PT | Updated Jan 13, 2020 12:08 pm PT ...
Over the past 10 years, the rate of new lung cancer cases diagnosed in America has dropped 19% and the five-year survival rate has increased 26%, according to a new report. However, lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death all across the ...
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