The company behind blood pressure medication tablets has expanded a recall for two products after trace amounts of a possible cancer-causing ingredient was ...
A Brooklyn judge has sided with New York health officials to uphold a mandatory measles vaccinations order, dismissing a lawsuit from a group of parents who ...
The parents were protesting the city Health Department's emergency order requiring people who live in certain parts of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to get vaccinated ...
New York - - A Brooklyn judge on Thursday ruled against a group of parents who challenged New York City's recently imposed mandatory measles vaccination ...
The 2018-19 flu season, which began last fall is still ongoing, is the longest flu season in 10 years, the CDC said Friday. Although the levels of influenza are ...
State health officials say Iowa has confirmed its second case of measles since 2011. The Iowa Public Health Department said Thursday that the unvaccinated ...
Ordering more tests or treatments is not always best for patients' health or wallet. A group of medical educators is trying to address the problem where they think ...
University of Minnesota experts say enterovirus-D68 could cause acute flaccid myelitis, which struck at least 28 people in the UK last year, like three-year-old ...
A virus appears to be the cause behind a rash of polio-like illnesses that struck Minnesota last fall, causing paralyzing symptoms in several children, including ...
In hopes of curbing the measles outbreak — which has infected 186 people in Rockland County, New York, — local officials have issued strict guidelines ...
NEW CITY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – A man on a trip from New York, who was unknowingly infected with the measles, traveled to Michigan and spread the virus to ...
An Orthodox Jewish daycare has been shut by New York City's Health Department after it violated a city order about the measles public health emergency, while ...
Scientists have restored some brain function in a pig's brain 4 hours after the mammal has died. The findings open new avenues for researching the brain.
Yale University scientists have succeeded in restoring basic cellular activity in pigs brains hours after their deaths in a finding that may one day lead to advances ...
In a stunning scientific breakthrough, Yale School of Medicine researchers restored brain activity in pigs that had died hours before. The finding could ...
Researchers used an experimental gene therapy to develop a possible treatment for a rare and deadly immune disorder known as “bubble boy” disease, the ...
A gene therapy developed at St. Jude's Children's Hospital has cured 10 infants born with a rare genetic disease called SCID-X1, also known as "Bubble Boy ...
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital published data from its Phase I/II clinical trial of its gene therapy for SXCID or SCID-X1, also dubbed “bubble boy disease.
Even a terrifically effective Ebola vaccine cannot stop an outbreak if nearly 20% of the people who most need it either cannot be reached or refuse to take the ...
Today the health ministry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed another 12 cases of Ebola in an ongoing outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri ...
Felix Tshisekedi, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), found it necessary on Tuesday to assure rural citizens of his country that Ebola is “not ...
The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is brutal – it's the second largest Ebola outbreak on record, and has infected at least ...
U.S. health officials on Thursday said they will spend $350 million in four states to study ways to best deal with the nation's opioid crisis on the local level, with a ...
The Trump administration is launching a $350 million opioid-addiction research and treatment initiative to reduce opioid-overdose deaths by a goal of 40% in ...
The University of Kentucky has been awarded an $87 million federal grant, the largest in its history, to reduce opioid deaths by 40 percent in 16 counties around ...
As part of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar's cross-cutting Department initiatives to address the opioid epidemic, the National Institutes of Health ...
Washington has dealt a blow to the so-called "anti-vaxxers." The Washington Legislature is poised to remove personal and philosophical beliefs as grounds for ...
The bill removes the personal belief exemption from required childhood vaccinations for measles, mumps and rubella. Seventeen states allow exemptions ...
In response to Washington state's worst measles outbreak in more than two decades — 74 people have been infected so far — the state legislature moved to ...
Rep. Paul Harris recalled sitting in his office at about 6 p.m. on Wednesday when he received a text informing him that one of his key priorities for the current ...
While the outbreak is linked to deli sliced meats and cheeses, no one brand or retailer has been identified as the culprit, the Center for Disease Control said.
A Listeria outbreak linked to sliced deli meat has sickened eight people and led to one death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Health officials are warning people about a listeria outbreak that has left one person dead and hospitalized at least eight people across the United States.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NBC) – Federal health officials are investigating a deadly listeria outbreak involving deli-sliced meats and cheeses. The CDC said a total ...
Researchers are developing new ways to mine growing stores of genetic data to predict risk of disease. The latest such tool, which assesses the risk for obesity, ...
Scientists at the Broad Institute and Harvard University created a $50 genetic test that can give babies an obesity risk score from the time they are born, ...
Can a genetic test identify newborns at risk of becoming severely obese by middle age? Researchers say they have come up with one, and that it might allow ...
Public health officials are again warning travelers who flew in and out of Los Angeles International Airport of possible measles exposure after another traveler ...
Here are some stories to start your day. There's yet another measles warning out of LAX. Plus, $350 million is going toward research to combat the opioid crisis.
Los Angeles County health officials said Thursday they have confirmed a fourth case of measles involving someone who traveled through the county, this one ...
For the third time in two months, public health officials are warning travelers of possible measles exposure at Los Angeles International Airport after an infectious ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW (KRON) - Santa Clara County health officials say the person infected with measles is an adult resident of San Mateo County who visited ...
A Google employee from San Mateo County visited the company's offices at 1295 Charleston Road in Mountain View (pictured) on April 4 while sick with ...
The Santa Clara County, California, health department said a person with measles visited Google's headquarters in Silicon Valley, which is in their county.
Her employer offered only a high-deductible health plan; that meant she'd have to pay up to $6000 out of pocket each year. Advocates for patients say this sort of ...
Dozens of people, including 53 medical professionals, have been charged for their alleged participation in the illegal prescription and distribution of opioids and ...
The tag “bubble boy” was first used to describe Texas youngster David Vetter, who was born without a functioning immune system. Vetter was abnormally ...
They were born without a working germ-fighting system, every infection a threat to their lives. Now eight babies with "bubble boy disease" have had it fixed by a ...
They're using the “c” word. Mustang Bio's stock leapt more than 400% in after-hours trading Wednesday on the news that a gene therapy it licensed from St.
The Texas parents of a baby born without skin are hoping that Houston specialists can help their son who's so fragile he has only been held twice by his mother ...
A baby in California has died after contracting whooping cough, officials said, marking the first such death in Orange County in more than a decade. A news ...
Orange County health officials have announced the whooping cough-related death of an infant, the county's first fatality tied to the illness since 2007. “We are ...
Orange County Health Care Agency officials Thursday said that a baby has died from whooping cough — the first pertussis-related death of an infant in the ...
An Orange County baby has died after contracting whooping cough, marking the first infant death from the disease this year in California, health officials said ...
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is usually very effective at suppressing HIV in the body, allowing a person's immune system to recover by preventing the virus from ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A central Minnesota farm where deer were found infected with a fatal brain disease has closed and the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
(CNN) — Researchers have 3D-printed a heart using a patient's cells, providing hope that the technique could be used to heal hearts or engineer new ones for ...
In a major medical breakthrough, scientists in Israel have created a 3D printed heart with human tissue and vessels which can help advance the possibilities for ...
A tiny bone hidden in the tendon of the knee started to disappear over the course of human evolution ... or so scientists thought. Now, a new study finds that this ...
A little bone in the knee scientists thought was being lost to evolution seems to be making a comeback, say experts from Imperial College London. The fabella is ...
Researchers from London say it has experienced a resurgence in the last century - going from being found in 11.2 per cent of the global population in 1918 to 39 ...
Scientists are baffled by the resurgence of what they assumed was a defunct extra bone behind the knee. At the turn of the century around one in 10 people, had ...
Six weeks after a Stockton prison inmate died after contracting Legionnaire's disease, water tests showed the bacteria that causes the diease to be widespread ...
The Florida Department of Health in Marion County is reporting a steep rise in hepatitis A infections, which currently ranks the county fifth in the state.
A worker at U.S. Chili in Camp Washington may have spread hepatitis A to customers. The Cincinnati Health Department is warning customers they need to ...
Staying fit could help keep your brain from shrinking and aging in your older years, suggests a new study out Friday. It found that middle-aged and elderly ...
Even light activity such as household chores might help to keep the brain young, researchers say, adding to a growing body of evidence that, when it comes to ...
Researchers from Boston University said every extra hour of exercise on top of the recommended 250-minute weekly average could wipe an extra year off ...
Researchers have 3D-printed a heart using a patient's cells, providing hope that the technique could be used to heal hearts or engineer new ones for ...
(Jerusalem Post) On Monday, a team of Tel Aviv University researchers revealed the heart, which was made using a patient's own cells and biological material.
A conversation with Annie Grace, of The Alcohol Experiment, who writes about sobriety and the effect drinking has on the body and brain. “The truth is that ...
(CNN) Russian researchers have found liquid blood and urine inside the frozen carcass of a foal that died 42,000 years ago in Siberia's Verkhoyansk region.
Liquid blood and urine have been extracted from the frozen carcass of a foal that died during the Ice Age about 42000 years ago in Siberia's Verkhoyansk region ...
The TAU researchers' heart is made from human cells and patient-specific biological materials which serve as the bioinks for 3D printing of complex tissue ...
Sleep is critical to our well-being — but many people still ignore its importance, or continue to be misinformed. While mounds of research show that sleep ...
We may take comfort in some common pieces of sleep advice, like the idea that more sleep is always better, or that alcohol will lull us to sleep. However many of ...
Hey, sleepyheads. What you believe about sleep may be nothing but a pipe dream. Many of us have notions about sleep that have little basis in fact and may ...
While hitting the snooze button in the morning or having a nightcap before bed may seem like ways to get more sleep, these myths may actually be harming your ...
As the nation grapples with a measles outbreak, the number of mumps cases at Indiana University has more than doubled since last week, school officials said, ...
On Thursday morning, a 17th mumps case was confirmed at Indiana University. All of the cases are university students, and nine of the cases have been ...
A baby born without skin due to a rare genetic disease has spent his first four months undergoing intensive medical treatment and pain management in the ...
Fainy Sukenik believes in vaccines, and her four children are up to date on all their shots. That's why she's furious that her baby got measles. Too young to be ...
New research confirms that the circadian clock is an important factor in how the body responds to physical exertion. Based on this work alone, it's too early to say ...
While exercising is known to be an important part of an overall healthy lifestyle, questions have remained over whether exercising during a certain time of the.
When is the best time to work out? Experts have been debating this question for years but new data suggests that exercising at night may be better for you than ...
Two papers appearing April 18 in the journal Cell Metabolism confirm that the circadian clock is an important factor in how the body responds to physical ...
Two new studies have found that exercising at different times of the day could bring completely different benefits to your body. Paolo Sassone-Corsi, a ...
Healthier eating can help limit the progression of heart disease, but for people who already struggle with heart conditions, nutrition is essential. According to ...
People who skip breakfast and eat dinner late are four to five times more likely to die, have another heart attack or suffer chest pain within 30 days after...
BRASILIA: Do you skip your morning meal and eat dinner late at night? If so, it may increase the risk of death and other heart-related problems, researchers ...
When you eat during the day could influence your chances of surviving a heart attack, a new study finds. Specifically, skipping breakfast and eating dinner late in ...
Seattle activist Chris Rufo alleges that there is a misinformation campaign waged by regional leaders of industry and non-profits to spread their message about ...
In 2000, measles was declared to be eliminated in the United States, when no sustained transmission of the virus was seen in this country for more than 12 ...
Folks start forgetting things as they get older, like where they put their car keys or what they had for breakfast. But their memories might get a boost from an ...
Researchers at Northwestern University have used a non-invasive form of magnetic brain stimulation to improve the memory of older adults. After just five short ...
A CRISPR clinical trial is currently underway at the University of Pennsylvania, where researchers are testing the efficacy of gene-editing technologies in.
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania successfully edited the DNA of embryonic mice just days before birth to get rid of genetic defects that cause fatal lung ...
When an unborn baby is diagnosed with a life-threatening defect, it can be devastating. So some scientists hope to treat the fetus in the uterus using gene ...
Scientists from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania showed that in utero gene editing could be a promising new approach ...
For years experts have been at odds about what exactly happens when we die, but recent research says that the brain continues to work after death, and we can ...
The whole world is exhausted. And it's killing us. But particularly me. As I write this, I'm at TED 2019 in Vancouver, which is a weeklong marathon of talks and ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Scientists and doctors have made a huge breakthrough that could help millions living around the world with multiple sclerosis. Tom Scanlan ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) – They're calling it a potential game-changer. Doctors at Oregon Health and Science University are part of a new breakthrough in ...
A scientific breakthrough provides new hope for millions of people living with multiple sclerosis. Researchers at OHSU have developed a compound that ...
PORTLAND, Ore. – They're calling it a potential game-changer. Doctors at Oregon Health and Science University are part of a new breakthrough in research on ...
Two or more hours of screen time a day could lead to behavioural and attention problems among children, scientists have warned. Earlier this year, it was ...
According to a new study from the University of Alberta, younger children who receive two or more hours of screen time per day were nearly six times more likely ...
The risk of developing ADHD is seven times higher in preschoolers who spend over two hours a day on smartphones and other screens, according to research.
Playing sport for at least two hours a week could be the antidote to the perils of screen time, a study suggests.Scientists who observed 2400 families found that ...
Butte County Public Health officials have announced another confirmed case of the measles in Butte County, bringing the total amount of cases to 7. Officials ...
Eating even a moderate amount of red or processed meat is linked with an increased risk of colorectal (bowel) cancer, according to a new study published ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.– Indiana University says 16 students have now been diagnosed with mumps. That number more than doubles last week's report of seven ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WTHR) – Indiana University confirms 16 cases of mumps, with nine of those being linked to one fraternity. On April 4, the university ...
The number of mumps cases at Indiana University's Bloomington campus has more than doubled in the past week. There are now 17 cases associated with the ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Some Google employees are alarmed they weren't told sooner that a colleague with measles had walked around buildings at their Silicon ...
Executives at Google's Silicon Valley headquarters are discussing ways to protect themselves and their families from measles after one of them was found ...
Executives at Google's Silicon Valley headquarters are discussing ways to protect themselves and their families from measles after one of them was found ...
Executives at Google's Silicon Valley headquarters are discussing ways to protect themselves and their families from measles after one of them was found ...
Executives at Google's Silicon Valley headquarters are discussing ways to protect themselves and their families from measles after one of them was found ...
Ja'Ceon Golden and Omarion Jordan were born with severe combined immunodeficiency disorder. You probably know of it as "bubble boy syndrome." A new ...
Dannie Hawkins dreamed for her precious baby nephew, Ja'Ceon Golden, to experience the simple joys of childhood -- swimming in pools during the summer, ...
