The measles outbreak in the United States surpassed 667 reported cases, which previously was the highest number of cases on record since the disease was ...
The U.S. is dealing with the largest outbreak of measles cases since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and ...
A Delaware girl was bitten by a blood-sucking kissing bug inside her home, the first time the insect-- which can transmit the fatal disease Chagas -- was found in ...
A Delaware girl was bitten on the face by a "kissing bug" in July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed last week, but what do you need to ...
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4/AP) — A blood-sucking bug that can spread disease and is nicknamed for biting people around their mouths has been sighted in ...
(CNN) It takes two doses of measles vaccine to protect children from the disease. A troubling new report from UNICEF finds that 2.5 million children in the United ...
As measles cases in the United States climb to the highest number in two decades, advocates said Thursday nearly 170 million children worldwide have not ...
In May 2016, I'd been feeling sick for a few days. My doctor diagnosed strep and sent me home with antibiotics. But this wasn't like any strep I'd ever had before.
On the same day the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed measles cases are at their highest since the virus was declared eliminated in ...
The World Health Organization has issued its first guidance for how much screen time children should get: not very much for children under 5, and none at all for ...
The occasional Netflix binge might seem like a harmless distraction to you and me, but the World Health Organization says those same personal standards ...
LONDON — The World Health Organization has issued its first-ever guidance for how much screen time children under 5 should get: not very much, and none at ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that the kissing bug, which can transmit a potentially deadly parasite, has spread to Delaware, ...
For years researchers have tried to convert brain signals directly to speech, cutting out the muscles we actually use to speak. A new approach out of UCSF puts ...
In a feat that could eventually unlock the possibility of speech for people with severe medical conditions, scientists have successfully recreated the speech of ...
Scientists have harnessed artificial intelligence to translate brain signals into speech, in a step toward brain implants that one day could let people with impaired ...
Many of us slather ourselves in DEET each summer in hopes of avoiding mosquito bites, and it generally works rather well. Now, researchers reporting in the ...
The doctors and nurses who work in the heart of the Ebola outbreak zone in Democratic Republic of the Congo say they've had enough. For weeks they've been ...
This comes after a senior epidemiologist was killed last week while working to fight Ebola for the World Health Organization in the east of the Democratic Re...
The government of Malawi has begun administering the world's first approved malaria vaccine to young children as part of a sweeping pilot program that could ...
After decades of development and testing the world's first malaria vaccine is beginning a wide roll out, commencing in Malawi before being introduced into ...
Malawi, Kenya and Ghana will become the first countries in the world to begin immunising children against malaria. Around 360000 children a year will be given ...
Popular e-cigarette products in the United States may be contaminated with harmful bacterial and fungal toxins, a new study from Harvard researchers suggests.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (KABC) -- Concerns are growing over e-cigarettes and possible lung problems that could develop because of a bacteria the devices may ...
Americans are becoming increasingly sedentary, spending almost a third of their waking hours sitting down, and computer use is partly to blame, a new study ...
BUTEMBO, Congo (AP) — Doctors at the epicenter of Congo's Ebola crisis are threatening to go on strike indefinitely if health workers are attacked again.
The killing on Friday of a World Health Organization-deployed responder to Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo came a week after a WHO committee ...
Health workers in one of the epicenters of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak threatened on Wednesday to go on strike as early as next ...
Doctors at the epicenter of Congo's Ebola crisis are threatening to go on strike indefinitely if health workers are attacked again. The march on Wednesday.
Malaria is a disease that was once on the decline but now efforts to contain it have stalled. The World Health Organization estimates Malaria killed 435000 ...
The community of global health scientists and public health experts are excited about the potential of introducing the first malaria vaccines for Africa.
Subscribe to France 24 now: http://f24.my/youtubeEN FRANCE 24 live news stream: all the latest news 24/7 http://f24.my/YTliveEN Claire Pryde talks to Yan ...
Every year, malaria kills more than 400,000 people, most of them children. There's been significant progress against the disease in the past few decades ...
The FDA has announced that a recall for medication used to treat high blood pressure has been expanded again. According to the recall issued Wednesday, ...
A ranch-raised elk in Oklahoma has tested positive for the deadly, so-called “zombie” deer disease after the animal died of injuries earlier this month, officials ...
OKLAHOMA CITY - A deadly disease that impacts animals is back in Oklahoma. For the first time in more than 20 years, chronic wasting disease has been found ...
An elk from a farmed herd in Lincoln County has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), according to the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food ...
Faced with a flood of addicted inmates and challenged by lawsuits, America's county jails are struggling to adjust to an opioid health crisis that has turned many ...
RICHMOND, Va. — The number of hepatitis A virus (HAV) cases reported in Virginia in 2019 is up 132% over 2018, according to the Virginia Department of ...
Cases of hepatitis A in Virginia have risen 132% compared to this time period last year. The Virginia Department of Health is urging vaccinations and frequent ...
Dr. Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung of Cameroon arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo just four weeks ago – and was increasingly worried about ...
A DOCTOR deployed by the World Heath Organisation (WHO) has been killed after a mob attacked staff at a hospital in the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in ...
Over the weekend and through today, the ministry of health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recorded 23 new Ebola cases and 19 deaths, while ...
A World Health Organization doctor has been killed by armed militia when a hospital at the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
Women who take antibiotics over a long period of time are at increased risk of heart attack or stroke, according to research carried out in nearly 36500 women.
Experts at Tulane University believe long-term use of the drugs wipes out healthy gut bacteria - creating an imbalance that increases inflammation and narrows ...
A new study published in the European Heart Journal found that women who took antibiotics for an extended time were at a higher risk of heart attacks and ...
Women who used antibiotics for longer than a two month period saw their risks of suffering a heart attack or stroke rise by a third, a study has found. Researchers ...
Authorities in Pakistan arrested a man on Tuesday for allegedly disseminating false rumors on social media that the polio vaccine led to fainting and vomiting, ...
GUNMEN in Pakistan shot and killed a police officer guarding a polio immunisation team on Wednesday, the latest attack on efforts to protect children from the ...
ISLAMABAD: Environmental samples from a key area in Peshawar have shown no signs of the wild polio virus for the first time in one and a half years, the World ...
PESHAWAR: An intense effort and dedication of the anti-polio team bore fruits after samples of sewage water found no polio virus in Shaheen Muslim Town area ...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen in Pakistan shot and killed a police officer guarding a polio immunization team on Wednesday, the latest attack on ...
For the time being, breakfast holds the grand title of “the most important meal of the day.” Some critics say that the title is overblown, at least as far as weight loss ...
New research at the University of Iowa drives home a saying we've probably all heard: breakfast is the "most important" meal of the day. The study was authored ...
While eating breakfast every day has always been considered an important part of a healthy diet, a new study recently published in the Journal of the American ...
Think breakfast isn't the most important meal of the day? Think again, say researchers behind a new study that found the risk of heart-related death rises ...
Opinions on breakfast tend to vary widely: Some say it's the most important meal of the day, while others stick to water until lunchtime rolls around. And the ...
What year were you born? If it was before 1989, then chances are you need to get the measles vaccine again. Currently, measles is back on the rise in the U.S. It ...
The school district took thorough action and the the Department Environmental and Conservation Services scrubbed and sanitized Suncoast High school ...
Montana health authorities are investigating an outbreak of whooping cough in the Missoula area where six cases have been confirmed, including one that ...
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In recent decades, strategies for combating malaria have emphasized distributing easy-to-use commodities – including insecticides, insecticide-treated mosquito ...
Last year's annual report on malaria contained some startling and worrying figures. In 10 of the countries with some of the highest rates of the disease there were ...
The FDA has just approved the first, non-drug medical device to treat ADHD in children. It works by delivering a low-level electrical pulse through a patch on a ...
Public health officials on Monday declared a measles outbreak in Los Angeles County after confirming at least five cases among residents, as well as the firs...
EL SERENO -- Cal State L.A. and public health officials are looking for library patrons and staff who might have been exposed to measles earlier this month at ...
Dear Abby: I am a licensed acupuncturist. One of my patients (also male) asked me to dinner, and since he seemed like a decent guy, I decided to go. After we ...
Kids, teens and young adults who don't drink water end up guzzling almost 100 extra calories a day from sugary beverages, on average, according to a new ...
Sugary drinks are a mainstay in many children's diets. The ubiquity, low cost, slick marketing, and sweet taste of soda, sports drinks, and fruit-flavored beverages ...
Among the 1 in 5 who didn't drink any water daily, sugared-drink calories totaled 200, on average, compared with 100 calories a day among water drinkers.
That kids (and adults) in America love their sugary drinks is no secret. But a new study out this Monday suggests that sodas and sports drinks are fully replacing ...
When it comes to processed foods, the concern is usually directed toward ingredients like added sugar, sodium and trans fats. But there's also a host of additives ...
GENEVA - Children aged two to four should not be allowed more than one hour of 'sedentary screen time' per day and infants less than one year old should not ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a media statement advising against what it refers to as “misapplication” of its 2016 “Guidelines for ...
Authors of the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain sought to clarify the guidance on Wednesday, urging clinicians against misapplying ...
The CDC decries abrupt, involuntary dose reductions and patient abandonment without acknowledging its responsibility for those unintended but foreseeable ...
Sleep apnea is a serious problem that could lead to a heart attack or stroke. We spoke to a Savannah doctor to see how they are working to cure the scary ...
A new research study links the common anti-mold food additive propionate to blood sugar metabolism and insulin resistance in human volunteers and mice.
Researchers at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station are for the first time actively collecting ticks statewide to test for organisms that cause human ...
Millennials are less healthy than the generation before them, and the difference — particularly in Philadelphia — is driven by mental illness, substance use ...
The oldest millennials are not faring as well as Generation X did in several key health areas, according to a report published Wednesday by Blue Cross Blue ...
KAUFMAN, Texas — Effective immediately, Texas Presbyterian Health of Kaufman Hospital is among 14 DFW emergency rooms who are no longer in the Blue ...
When eating out, people with food allergies often have to trust their servers for information on what is safe to eat. But most restaurant staff have limited ...
Restaurant staff know surprisingly little about food allergies, and attitudes to customer health risks are often poor, according to a study of nearly 300 employees ...
The Mississippi State Department of Health has identified a third location in Hattiesburg where people may have been exposed to measles by a contagious ...
HATTIESBURG, MS (WLBT) - A new location of possible measles exposure has been added to the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) investigation ...
Spring has sprung across Northeast Ohio yet it's bringing on a range of dread for spring allergy sufferers. A report from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of ...
Allergy sufferers in the D.C. area have had a rough month, thanks to a sustained blast of pollen from trees. Fortunately, it appears those tree pollen numbers are ...
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - It's that time of year and you may be feeling miserable. Spring is here and that means allergies come along with it for some. Louisville ...
Sniffling. Sneezing. Watery and itchy eyes. Allergy season has arrived and if you don't feel it, you can probably see it as a yellow film on cars, outdoor furniture ...
The measles vaccine is far, far safer than actually getting measles, despite what you may have heard from skeptics. And it's unkind to expose babies to a horrific ...
The mum of a baby who had measles so severely that "her eyes were swollen shut for four days", says "parents should know what can happen to vulnerable ...
Watching her daughter lying in her cot, unresponsive, battling a soaring temperature and covered in red blotches, Jilly Moss knew Alba was gravely ill.
What if artificial intelligence could diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder better and faster than a human? A study published in the journal Depression and ...
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be a very serious problem, and it unfortunately often goes undiagnosed. New technology could help, however, as it ...
Once you've gotten in the swing of using your Instant Pot for quick, healthy dinners, it's hard to imagine how you survived those busy weeknights without one.
An international team of researchers used an X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to create the first detailed maps of ...
A California mother is urging caretakers and medical providers to take extra precaution after her 11-year-old daughter suffered a fatal allergic reaction to a milk ...
A California mom is warning other parents after her 11-year-old daughter, who had a severe dary allergy, died from an allergic reaction to her toothpaste.
CALIFORNIA (CNN) -- Monique Altamirano's 11-year-old daughter, Denise Saldate, died of a severe allergic reaction to toothpaste, she told Allergic Living.
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) - The parents of a young girl from Southern California who they say died after an allergic reaction to toothpaste containing milk are ...
A 20-year-old woman in Dallas, Tex., rushed to the hospital after waking one morning with a bumpy rash on her hands, arms, legs, scalp and torso. She was ...
A brain "switch" that makes people gorge on hamburgers, pizzas and fries has been identified for the first time. The discovery offers hope of new treatments for...
Scientists at the University of Manchester studied cultured cells and mice to analyze how the internal body clock (or, circadian rhythm) affects metabolism and ...
New research has found it is not just what you eat, but when you eat that is important, knowledge which could improve the health of shift workers and people ...
The time of day that you eat could be just as important to your wellbeing as the food you consume, a new study has found. According to the researchers who ...
A March 2019 study from the University of North Georgia in Dahlonega supports the belief of many parents that ball pits are contaminated with germs, dirt and ...
Thank god Canadian gynecologist Dr. Jen Gunter exists. Without the author of The Vagina Bible: The Vulva And The Vagina: Separating The Myth From The ...
A gynaecologist has taken to Twitter to advise women against putting garlic in their vaginas. Now, before we go on, in case you're wondering why such a ...
First it was parsley, next it was cocaine and then, for a brief period in time, it was an aubergine bath bomb. Now, in the latest addition to bizarre items that ...
A multi-institutional clinical trial has given good results for a targeted therapy to treat a rare, aggressive blood cancer known as blastic plasmacytoid dendritic-cell ...
Tagraxofusp, the first-ever drug for blastic plasmacytoid dendritic-cell neoplasm, is being called a major advance. Data are now published in the New England ...
A toxic microbe found on the coast is a threat to people with open cuts who are exposed to seawater. Older, overweight men are particularly vulnerable as the ...
Precision oncology hinges on linking tumour genotype with molecularly targeted drugs; however, targeting the frequently dysregulated metabolic landscape of ...
Cancerous tumors are classified primarily based on their tissue of origin. However, the sequencing of the human genome and the development of powerful and ...
Researchers describe a new set of 'rules' that predict how the tissue of origin influences critical aspects of the genetic makeup of tumors, with potentially ...
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