Preschoolers on government food aid have grown a little less pudgy, a U.S. study found, offering *fresh* evidence that previous signs of declining obesity rates ...
Doctors from the Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ, are warning swimmers and fishermen in the Northeast about so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria, which ...
Climate change may lead to unlikely illnesses in unexpected places, new research suggests: Five separate cases of Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating infection ...
Climate change may lead to unlikely illnesses in unexpected places, new research suggests: In the past two years, five cases of Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating ...
"Flesh-eating" bacteria that live in the ocean may be spreading to previously unaffected beach waters thanks to climate change, according to a new report.
The suicide rate among young people in the United States increased in 2017 to its highest point since 2000, especially among those aged 15 to 19, and young ...
Suicide rates among young people are rising, reaching the highest levels since 2000, a study published Tuesday finds. But most alarming, the researchers said, ...
Suicide rates among young people in the U.S. have hit their highest levels in almost two decades, a study has revealed. In 2017, a total of 6,241 people aged ...
The rate of U.S. adolescents and young adults dying of suicide has reached its highest level in nearly two decades, according a report published today in the ...
Over the weekend, the ministry of health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recorded 28 new cases of Ebola, and will likely confirm another 20 new ...
The Ebola crisis that has raged for 10 months in the Democratic Republic of Congo and spread last week to Uganda is not a “public health emergency of ...
BWERA, Uganda — The isolation ward for Ebola patients is a tent erected in the garden of the local hospital. Gloves are given out sparingly to health workers....
Uganda's health minister said on Tuesday that health workers have now been authorised to use three experimental Ebola treatments in the country, a week after ...
BWERA, Uganda (AP) — The isolation ward for Ebola patients is a tent erected in the garden of the local hospital. Gloves are given out sparingly to health ...
“As of today, Uganda has not registered any new confirmed Ebola case in Kasese district or any other part of Uganda since the last registered case four days ...
Dr. Louise Aronson says the U.S. doesn't have nearly enough geriatricians — physicians devoted to the health and care of older people: "There may be maybe ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Victoza (liraglutide) injection for treatment of pediatric patients 10 years or older with type 2 diabetes.
Concluding that Victoza (liraglutide) injection has now been shown to improve blood sugar control in pediatric patients with type 2 diabetes, the U.S. Food and ...
NBC NEWS – A new Centers for Disease Control report is raising concerns that travelers visiting Europe could bring home not just memories, but potentially new ...
Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. with 5.7 million Americans living with it. While there is no cure, prevention and early diagnosis ...
Scientists in the Netherlands have discovered that an existing drug used for hypertension was able to boost blood flow to memory and learning regions in the ...
Researchers don't know whether the finding related to the drug nilvadipine can translate into any benefits for patients. But future studies should look into that ...
Sleep patterns predicted levels of Alzheimer's pathology proteins tau and amyloid beta (Aβ), a preliminary study of cognitively normal older adults suggested.
While some blood pressure medications have been the subject of many recalls tied to a cancer-causing ingredient in the past year or so, new research suggests ...
A human case of west Nile virus was confirmed this week near east Modesto, according Lloyd Douglass, manager of the East Side Mosquito Abatement District.
The number of cases of West Nile virus across Europe is at an unprecedented level, so much so that the Greek foreign office is asking tourists to change their ...
THE FOREIGN OFFICE has issued a new travel warning for Greece, as British holidaymakers are urged to prepare before they visit the country. Should people ...
OAKLAND COUNTY (the Patch) — The West Nile Virus has been confirmed in Oakland County, state officials said. The first Oakland County mosquito pool ...
Language in Facebook posts may help identify conditions such as diabetes, anxiety, depression and psychosis in patients, according to a study from Penn ...
Researchers analyzed the Facebook statuses of 999 participants whose posts were more than 500 words -- amounting to 949530 posts on the social network.
Researchers who work with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning travelers to get their measles, mumps and rubella vaccines after a ...
Your social media could reveal a lot more about you than you think. Say, for example, whether you have a medical condition. In a new study, researchers were.
In the face of growing international concerns over antimicrobial resistance, Qiagen has launched a one-stop shop that compiles publicly available genomic data, ...
WHO launched a global campaign urging governments to adopt a tool to reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance, adverse events and costs. The AWaRe ...
Data from a federal program designed to compensate people harmed by vaccines shows how rare it is for someone to claim they were hurt after getting ...
Americans have received billions of doses of vaccines for everything from measles to the flu. In 30 years, very few injury claims have been filed with the federal ...
Valisure, an online pharmacy company, told the FDA that high levels of dimethylformamide were found in valsartan, a drug produced by Swiss drugmaker ...
An online pharmacy told U.S. regulators it found another cancer-causing chemical in widely prescribed blood-pressure pills, raising new questions about a ...
The US and Europe have faced severe shortages of heart medications since last summer, when it emerged that millions of people were taking pills made in ...
A food *service* worker at Village Pizza Restaurant in Spring Hill has been diagnosed with hepatitis A, according to the Florida Department of Health in Hernando ...
Customers of a pizza place in Spring Hill may have been exposed to hepatitis A after a restaurant worker tested positive for the virus, according to health ...
DURHAM, N.C. -- Durham officials informed residents of a possible exposure of measles happening within the community, WTVD reports. A letter was sent out to ...
Patterns of inpatient opioid use and their associations with postdischarge opioid use are poorly understood. Objective: To measure patterns in timing, duration, ...
Nearly 6% of people in the study had a heart attack otrdeveloped angina (chest pain). The researchers found that all the people who developed heart trouble ...
LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) – The first bat to test positive for rabies in Jefferson County this year was found in the busy Belmar neighborhood in Lakewood.
LAKEWOOD, Colo. — A bat in Lakewood has tested positive for rabies, according to Jefferson County Public Health. The infected bat was found in a high-traffic ...
A study released Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explains that the problems that once plagued the ancient city of Çatalhöyük ...
Some 9000 years ago, residents of one of the world's first large farming communities were also among the first humans to experience some of the perils of ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Some 9,000 years ago, residents of one of the world's first large farming communities were also among the first humans to experience some ...
Some 9000 years ago, residents of one of the world's first large farming communities were also among the first humans to experience some of the perils of ...
Autism spectrum disorder and ADHD are conditions that doctors link to brain development. Asperger's syndrome is no longer a separate diagnosis and typically ...
Nutrition advice is often all over the map, even contradictory: Red wine is good, all alcohol is bad, eat breakfast, skip breakfast, eat a million small meals, ...
The first time a doctor told Gina Balzano that she was too fat to have a baby was in 2013. She was 32, weighed 317 pounds and had been trying to get pregnant ...
The condition was stopped in mice by blocking a protein that fuels brain inflammation. The Arizona team are hopeful it will lead to a gene therapy to combat ...
A cure for tinnitus could come in the form of a pill following a breakthrough by scientist. The debilitating condition was stopped in mice by blocking a protein that ...
EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. — Each day, an office building by the Delaware River in the Poconos is inundated with blood-sucking ticks, plucked from people ...
A Phase 3 trial found deferiprone, an iron cleaver, eased progression in PKAN patients and may aid those with MS, a diseases also marked by iron buildup.
Deferiprone was seen to lower iron levels in the brain to slow the progression of a neurological disorder called PKAN, and may aid Parkinson's patients.
Weight gain occurs when an individual's energy intake exceeds their energy expenditure—in other words, when calories in exceed calories out. What is less ...
A sneaky form of antibiotic resistance called "heteroresistance" is more widespread than previously appreciated, scientists at the Emory Antibiotic Resistance ...
A sneaky form of antibiotic resistance called "heteroresistance" is more widespread than previously appreciated. But tracking heteroresistance might guide the ...
Adelyn Swain underwent two life-saving surgeries to correct rare birth defects in the first 10 months of her life. Not that one could tell now, as she runs seemingly ...
A new study shows that the complement system, part of the innate immune system, plays a protective role to slow retinal degeneration in a mouse model of ...
Cytotoxic T-cells are essential mediators of protective immunity to viral infection and malignant tumors and are a key target for immunotherapy approaches.
The human immune system relies on a delicate balance of finely tuned cell types that keep germs and cancerous cells in check. In cancer and chronic infections ...
Understanding role of TOX protein could pave way to restoring normal function in systems weakened by chronic disease, say researchers from Israel's Bar-Ilan ...
The potentially deadly disease is caused by a soil-borne fungus that thrives in dry climates. In California's Central Valley, farmworkers are bearing the brunt of ...
This story was produced in partnership with Civil Eats, a nonprofit news organization focused on the American food system. LAMONT, Calif. — Victor Gutierrez ...
Within hours after fertilization, a unique genome forms from chromosomes contributed by the egg and sperm. However, this new genome is initially inactive and ...
Within hours after fertilization, a unique genome forms from chromosomes contributed by the egg and sperm. However, this new genome is initially inactive and ...
In order for the process of life to begin, post-fertilization, our genome has to be activated within the embryo. A team of researchers has discovered two proteins ...
The experimental treatment can resolve serious gastrointestinal infections, but the fecal matter must be thoroughly tested for potential pathogens, the FDA warns.
ST. LOUIS — Aging may not be for the faint of heart, but new research on mice suggests a protein supplement may one day be available for humans that could ...
A new study is offering a new hypothesis to explain the long-standing idea that transfusions of young blood can reverse the effects of aging. The study reveals ...
Scientists have discovered a potential way to stave off the detrimental effects of aging, according to their research in mice. The study suggests that a protein that ...
A new study proposes that variation in the energy needs of brain development across kids -- in terms of the timing, intensity and duration of energy use -- could ...
Wearable fitness trackers have made it all too easy for us to make assumptions about our health. We may look to our heart rate to determine whether we really ...
For the first time, researchers have mapped the building blocks of the human lungs and airways, in both asthma patients and normal people. The research from ...
As part of the Human Cell Atlas initiative researchers have mapped the different types of cells in the lungs, and spotted some crucial new differences between ...
GSK-backed lung map reveals new targets in asthma. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, with support from GlaxoSmithKline and others, have ...
SCIENTISTS hope they are closer to an asthma cure after creating the first human lung map. The “atlas” charting every cell in the organ has already transformed ...
The 'atlas' of the lungs by British scientists will lead to better understanding and treatment of asthma. The cells which produce mucous in asthmatics was found ...
Machine-learning algorithms can help psychologists predict, with 90 per cent accuracy, the onset of psychosis by analyzing a patient's conversations, according ...
Two variables—including more frequent use of words related to sound—can predict whether an at-risk person will later develop psychosis with 93% accuracy.
A salmonella outbreak has reached North Carolina. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than three dozen states have seen ...
Hiker-ready dehydrated meals might be simple and tasty, but they aren't cheap. While it's certainly nice to just add water and have a steamy chicken korma meal ...
Researchers have found that a compound created in the stomach after eating certain types of fruit and nuts has an anti-aging effect on humans. Called urolithin.
Urolithin A, a metabolite of biomolecules found in pomegranates and other fruits, could help slow certain aging processes. EPFL spin-off Amazentis, ...
There's plenty of interest in life extension technologies in Silicon Valley right now. (And, let's face it, probably the rest of the world, too!) While researchers have ...
Scientists are one step closer to unlocking the 'elixir of life' because a new clinical trial has shown the secret to reversing the ageing process is hidden inside ...
Losing weight is, in theory, simple. But that doesn't make it easy. The vast majority of people, and women in particular, are always trying, or at the very least ...
To understand our brains, scientists need to know their components. This theme underlies a growing effort in neuroscience to define the different building blocks ...
Fecal transplants are experimental procedures in which doctors use stool from a healthy donor to treat a person whose own microbiome has been thrown off ...
One person died from a fecal transplant that went wrong earlier this week. The Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday that one person has died ...
Fecal transplants, though experimental, have been lifesaving, reports the New York Times, citing the cases of some patients who were being ravaged by ...
The ripple effects of a recent positive test for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a free-ranging whitetail deer in northern Juniata County is changing regulations ...
A review of National Health *Service* food has been ordered by Conservative Health Secretary Matt Hancock after the number of deaths linked to a Listeria.
All hospitals where patients have died from poisoning after eating sandwiches were identified yesterday.Five people have died and four been left seriously ...
A Lanarkshire hospital was supplied with sandwiches and salads linked to a fatal listeria outbreak. Five people have died in an outbreak in England which is ...
DENVER -- A 93 page lawsuit claims former patients of Porter Adventist Hospital got infections like Hepatitis C after undergoing surgery at the hospital during a ...
Dozens of people sued Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver on Saturday, a year after the Colorado hospital said reported “breaches” in sterilization procedures ...
87 people are suing Porter, claiming the hospital's failure to sterilize equipment resulted in patients developing infections that some are still treating years later.
Turmeric has fast become ubiquitous. The humble root, which originates in India, is being added to everything from health supplements to juices and beauty ...
In 2012, Professor Jeroen Raes (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology) launched the Flemish Gut Flora Project. Sequencing fecal samples of over 3000 ...
