Edwin Tamasese's arrest comes after the United Nations yesterday blamed anti-vaxx propaganda for the unprecedented measles epidemic in the Pacific island.
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 ...
The good news is that, regardless of whether the outbreak is within our borders or not, the United States can make sure measles no longer robs children of their ...
The World Health Organization has released the latest data on measles. The increase in cases is notable — and a sign of how much work needs to be done to ...
A measles outbreak in the Pacific island nation of Samoa has killed more than 60 people, prompting authorities to order a two-day curfew to accelerate ...
Six former and current All Blacks, and a former Wallaby have started a givealittle page to help families struck by the measles outbreak in Samoa. Sonny Bill ...
Rochester, N. Y. (WHAM) - The number of cases of the flu in New York have risen to the point where it is now considered "prevalent", according to New York ...
More people in the United States died from flu last year than drunk drivers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Even though flu ...
The flu is now prevalent across New York State with 691 people sent to the hospital with the flu and one pediatric death in Monroe County. The flu is confirmed in ...
A new study reported this week claims that of the thousands of ingredients that go into hair products used to dye and straighten our hair, some might play a role ...
(WGHP) – Permanent hair dye and chemical hair straighteners might not be as harmless as they seem. The National Institute of Health reported Wednesday that ...
When it comes to black women and hair texture, The Glow Up has always maintained that it's a personal concern—in fact, we launched on the stance that we're ...
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 ...
A study is raising red flags from the salon to the homes of millions of women nationwide. Experts said it isn't clear if permanent hair dyes and chemical ...
Black women who use permanent dyes every five to eight weeks or more were associated with a 60% increased risk of breast cancer compared with an 8% ...
Despite the fact that birth control pills are 99 percent effective, 9 percent of women who take oral contraceptives get pregnant each year. The reality is that life ...
A single study of a small sampling of women has found that the hypothalamuses of those taking birth control pills are 6% smaller than those not on the hormonal ...
Researchers at MIT have developed an oral contraceptive pill that releases hormones slowly into the stomach with the goal of developing a product that only ...
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 ...
Nine people who injected the heroin between Oct. 2 and Nov. 24 were hospitalized in San Diego County with myonecrosis, a flesh-eating bacterial infection,
Seven people in San Diego County have been killed by a flesh-eating bacteria since the beginning of October, and health officials say the outbreak is linked to ...
Medications called PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, can lower the risk of contracting HIV by 97%. They're recommended for anyone at high risk of exposure to ...
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 ...
Jenna Jameson is back to eating carbs, and she's not ashamed! Nearly two years after she first began the keto diet, Jameson, 45, opened up on Instagram and ...
In 2005, Gilead Sciences notified federal regulators that it was suspending development of a potentially safer, more potent HIV-fighting drug than the one on the ...
Gilead and HHS have had a busy year in PrEP, including a patent lawsuit, but now they're starting a program to provide HIV prevention meds to those who can ...
Protein levels in people's blood can predict their age, a Stanford study has found. The study also found that aging isn't a smoothly continuous process.
They've identified hundreds of proteins in human blood that wax and wane in surprising ways as we age. The findings could provide important clues about ...
A few hundred of the thousands of proteins circulating in our blood turn out to be a fairly accurate forecaster of a person's age, scientists reported Thursday ...
Protein levels in people's blood can predict their age, a Stanford study has found. The study also found that aging isn't a smoothly continuous process.
The scientists analyzed plasma -- the cell-free, fluid part of blood -- from more than 4200 people between the ages of 18 and 95, and found a link between 373 ...
Scientists at Northwestern University near Chicago have made a significant stride in the quest to understand autism and other intellectual disabilities.
Dozens of medical care providers at Jupiter Medical Center, along with a patient, were treated for the contagious and painful skin condition scabies last month, ...
A mysterious die-off of freshwater mussels has scientists scrambling to find a cause. Freshwater mussels clean water and provide habitat to countless other ...
This year's flu vaccines include Fluzone High Dose, recommended for those 65 years and older. High dose flu vaccines contain four times the amount of antigen ...
Doctors treating a patient with a rare lung disease usually caused by exposure to industrial metals say it may instead be the first case linked to vaping.
The case of an e-cigarette user with a rare form of lung scarring typically found in metal workers has prompted more warnings about the dangers of vaping.
A woman developed a rare lung condition normally seen in people exposed to hard metals after vaping regularly, according to scientists. The unnamed patient ...
A entire Jefferson Co. elementary school is taking a sick day Friday after a norovirus outbreak forced nearly a third of students to stay home on Thursday.
A mysterious illness prompts the district to shut down Johnson Creek Elementary School on Friday. Now the Jefferson County Health Department is working with ...
JOHNSON CREEK -- There will be no school for students at Johnson Creek Elementary School on Friday, Dec. 6. The reason? The Jefferson County Health ...
A entire Jefferson Co. elementary school is taking a sick day Friday after an influenza outbreak forced nearly a third of students to stay home on Thursday.
Researchers have cleared a major obstacle in the development of an HIV vaccine, proving in animal models that effective, yet short-lasting antibodies can be ...
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 ...
Duke University and Boston Children's Hospital researchers think they've discovered a way to trigger the immune system to make antibodies against HIV, ...
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 ...
(Reuters) - U.S. health officials on Thursday reported one new case and one more death from a respiratory illness tied to vaping over a two-week period, taking ...
Researchers at Washington State University devised a new way to test urine levels of harmful chemicals from plastics called BPAs. The findings suggest the FDA ...
Of the 11 countries with the worlds highest malaria burdens, India was one of only two countries to reduce malaria cases between 2017 and 2018, achieving a ...
Uganda has again been named one of six African countries that account for more than half of all malaria cases in the world, according to the 2019 World Malaria ...
LONDON - Malaria still infects millions of people every year and kills more than 400000 - mostly children in Africa - because the fight against the mosquito-borne ...
As the climate warms, birds are shrinking and their wingspans are growing, according to a new study. Researchers analysed 70,716 specimens from 52 North ...
North American birds are getting smaller, a study in Ecology Letters has found, and scientists think the climate crisis is to blame. Researchers from the University ...
BIRDS are shrinking and their wingspans are growing as a result of global warming. That's the shock claim made by scientists, who measured tens of thousands ...
Birds are getting smaller, according to an analysis of migratory birds that died after colliding into buildings in Chicago and were collected as specimens for the ...
200 of the 389 species of birds in our state are on the brink of risk of extinction. The study showed that by stabilizing carbon emissions and holding warming to ...
Researchers have found that a 10-hour time-restricted eating intervention, when combined with traditional medications, resulted in weight loss, reduced ...
Time-restricted eating, a form of intermittent fasting, appears to benefit people with metabolic syndrome, who are at a higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, and ...
A popular intermittent fasting protocol may protect one's long-term health by helping reverse many issues caused by metabolic syndrome. According to a new ...
Eating within a daily 10-hour window could be an effective weight-loss strategy and help ward off diseases such as diabetes, scientists have suggested.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (CNN) — Seven people in San Diego have died in the last two months from a flesh-eating bacteria associated with black tar heroin use, ...
Seven people in San Diego County have died in the last two months from infections linked to injections of black tar heroin, the Health and Human Services ...
Seven people in San Diego have died in the last two months from a flesh-eating bacteria associated with black tar heroin use, according to health officials.
SAN DIEGO — Seven San Diegans died in the last two months from the bacterial infection myonecrosis, which is associated with black tar heroin use, the ...
San Diego County health officials are warning about potentially lethal flesh-eating bacteria infections contracted through black tar heroin drug use after nine ...
As powerful a technology as CRISPR is, it also has the potential to introduce mistakes or unpredictable errors in important, sacred sites of a living subject's DNA.
HONG KONG — While the whereabouts of a Chinese scientist at the centre of a gene-editing controversy remain a mystery, most of his research data released ...
The first gene-edited babies, born this year, could have unintended changes to their genome that those who carried out the pioneering procedure don't even ...
Three of the 12 women enrolled in a study of progesterone to reverse a medication-based abortion required ambulance transport to a hospital for treatment of ...
University of California – Davis Health study examines whether progesterone can reverse mifepristone's effect in initiating abortion. Women who initiate medical ...
Six US states have laws requiring doctors tell women who request medication abortions that a 'reversal' is available. UC Davis doctors tried to test the claim but ...
Using a DCD heart warm perfusion, doctors at Duke just brought a heart back to life for the first time in the United States for use in a heart transplant.
A team of doctors at Duke University became the first in the U.S. to perform a new type of heart transplant surgery this week, launching a study into a new ...
A team of doctors at Duke University has carried out the first donation after circulatory (or cardiac) death (DCD) heart transplant in the U.S. Members of the ...
A veteran became the first U.S.-based adult patient Sunday to receive a heart transplant from a donor whose heart and circulatory system had been declared ...
Now, it's nationwide. Alaska announced Tuesday its first case of vaping-related lung injury—making it the 50th state to do so, CNN reports. "We are fortunate that ...
The teen, who is in recovery, had been regularly vaping nicotine and marijuana, Alaska health officials said. Until now, Alaska was the only state with no ...
An Alaska teen has been hospitalized for a vaping-related injury, making Alaska the final state in the U.S. to report such an incident in the growing national ...
A teen from Southeast Alaska is the state's first case of vaping-related lung injury, according to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.
MIT researchers say they've taught test subjects how to manipulate their own alpha brain waves, thereby improving attention at a given task. The key: give the ...
A new treatment developed by Tel Aviv University could induce the destruction of pancreatic cancer cells, eradicating the number of cancerous cells by up to ...
With pancreatic cancer ranking as one of the most deadly forms of cancer, researchers are excited to report on a promising new breakthrough for a treatment.
(CNN/CBS) — The climate crisis is making us more vulnerable to ticks in an unprecedented and growing threat to public health, according to a new report.
They look so sweet and cuddly. You've been waiting to see the precious bundles. But unfortunately, mild adult illness can be a huge hurled for the tiniest babies.
New data from almost 400,000 individuals who were followed for up to 43 years have shown that the link between raised non-HDL cholesterol and future risk of ...
"People as young as 25 'need to know of their bad cholesterol levels'," reports The Guardian. A team of researchers developed a model that shows the risk of ...
Starting cholesterol-lowering therapy early in life may help reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk decades later, affirmed a large longitudinal study that ...
The relevance of blood lipid concentrations to long-term incidence of cardiovascular disease and the relevance of lipid-lowering therapy for cardiovascular ...
CINCINNATI (FOX19) - A case of aseptic meningitis is suspected in a student attending Mason High School, school officials said on Thursday. Principal Bobby ...
MASON, Ohio (WKRC) - Mason High School is warning parents and students about a case of aseptic meningitis at the school. The high school said one of its ...
Men who exercise regularly could cut their risk of prostate cancer in half, a new study has found. According to experts, daily activity – which can include ...
Prostate cancer affected over 1.2 million men worldwide in 2018, yet scientists still have trouble pinning down its exact causes. A new study, the largest to date ...
Men who exercise daily could halve their risk of prostate cancer, a major study has found. Experts said regular activity - which can include gardening or walking ...
Men can halve their risk of prostate cancer with low-level exercise such as gardening, walking and pottering around the house, a large-scale study has found.
DEMENTIA affects around 850000 people in the UK, with this figure set to rise to two million by 2050. Currently, the only drugs out there treat the symptoms but ...
The blood-brain barrier is a highly selective boundary that protects the brain from potentially damaging toxins and pathogens. However, evidence has shown ...
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 ...
An individual on the John Jay High School campus tested positive for tuberculosis, according to a notice sent to parents on Wednesday. The individual is ...
Head, face and neck injuries due to cell phone use have risen sharply over the last 20 years and can carry the risk of long-term complications, a new study says.
Aspirin's protective effect appears particularly pronounced among people who are overweight -- those with a body mass index of 25 to 29.9, the results show.
Taking aspirin as infrequently as 1 to 3 times a month reduced the risk of all-cause and cancer-related mortality in older adults in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal ...
Seniors 65 years of age and older with prostate, lung, colorectal or ovarian cancer who used aspirin three or more times per week were 15 percent less likely to ...
People who take the anti-inflammatory, aspirin, regularly may have better odds of surviving colorectal, prostate and stomach cancers, suggests a new National ...
Many adult cancers arise from clonal expansions of mutant cells in normal tissue. These premalignant expansions are defined by somatic mutations shared by ...
A fundamental change in our understanding of the childhood kidney cancer Wilms' tumour is on the horizon, after the discovery of its earliest genetic root by ...
Stephen Carroll, D.O., is a board-certified emergency medicine physician and assistant professor of emergency medicine at Emory University School of ...
A staggering number of people have dangerously high blood sugar levels that put them at risk of diabetes. There are more than 30 million people in the United ...
By studying the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, scientists from Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan have identified a protein that's key for ...
A new study from the journal of Lancet Public Health reveals that homeless people have a disproportionately high chance of experiencing a traumatic brain ...
I recently was told by my doctor to go see a doctor at the Cancer Institute to be tested for cervical cancer. When I told my mother she freaked out and told me my ...
COLUMBUS, Ind. (WJW) -- A restaurant in Indiana has crafted its menu and atmosphere for those with dementia and their families. WISH reports Amazing Joe's ...
Hormone therapies for prostate cancer have greatly prolonged the lives of patients, but the drugs eventually become ineffective and the disease grows lethal.
Flu season is here, and Maine is reporting its first death from the virus this season. In the CDC's most recent report, state officials say there have also been 35 ...
Portable generator use increases in winter, raising the risk of deadly carbon monoxide exposure. Safety advocates say the issue transcends user error, but ...
A 1-year-old in Kuwait who was subject to stares and rude comments because of a large growth in between her eyes has had her life dramatically transformed ...
Serious lung disease has a high rate of mortality, and the only curative treatment is a lung transplant. This is a complicated procedure that has other adverse...
