A rare bacterial disease linked to rats – and normally only seen in animals – has killed one person in The Bronx and left two others fighting for their lives, city officials reported Tuesday.
Altering human heredity sounds sci-fi, but a major new ethics report is leaving open the possibility that one day scientists might try that to fight some serious genetic diseases.
Merck has halted a phase 2/3 trial Alzheimer’s disease trial after an interim analysis found it was destined to fail. The failure of the BACE inhibitor to move the needle in the trial of 2,000 patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s dented Merck’s …
Hundreds of activists and allies from the newly-formed anti-Trump group Rise & Resist staged a peaceful protest at Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York City, to fight against the radical changes to the American healthcare system proposed by …
Donald Trump has expressed concern about a “tremendous increase” in autism rates – an argument commonly made by anti-vaccine campaigners, but disputed by autism experts.
Billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates aren’t just at the top of their respective industries – Buffett in finance and Gates in software – they’re also pretty good friends.
TUESDAY, Feb. 14, 2017 (HealthDay News) — Heart disease is increasing at a troubling pace in the United States, with costs expected to double from $555 billion in 2016 to a whopping $1.1 trillion in 2035, a new American Heart Association report estimates.
Spending your own money on health care might mean that you’ll be more frugal with it. That’s the theory behind health savings accounts, a decades-old GOP concept that’s sparking renewed interest on Capitol Hill as Republican lawmakers look for ways to …
People should try non-drug treatment options like massage or stretching for most cases of chronic low back pain before choosing treatment with over-the-counter or prescription drugs, according to new guidelines.
The majority of cases in the world’s largest outbreak of Ebola were caused by a tiny handful of patients, research suggests. The analysis, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows nearly two thirds of cases (61%) were caused …
It’s a well-known, stereotypical scene: Italian children plaguing customers’ lunches at restaurants with their rowdy behaviour under the benevolent glance of their parents.
DAKAR, Senegal – The World Health Organization has declared an end to the yellow fever outbreak that killed about 400 people in Congo and Angola, calling it “one of the largest and most challenging” in recent years.
WASHINGTON – House Republicans are taking aim this week at an Obama-era rule that bans states from denying federal funds to Planned Parenthood and other health care providers that perform abortions.
AMARILLO, TX (KFDA) -. MDS Foods Inc., of Massillon, OH is recalling multiple products some of which were found to be contaminated with the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes and other products which may have the potential to be contaminated with the …
Egypt’s Eman Ahmed, believed to be the world’s heaviest woman weighing close to 500 kg, has arrived in Mumbai for a surgery that could potentially save her life.
(Reuters Health) – A traditional Mediterranean diet with added olive oil may be tied to a lower risk of heart disease at least in part because it helps maintain healthy blood flow and clear debris from arteries, a Spanish study suggests.
An ongoing Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia study is looking into parents’ claims that their children developed “neuropsychiatric problems” after taking an over-the-counter laxative.
An Irish teenager has received enough funds to enable her to get life-saving treatment in the US for her rare form of cancer. In May 2015, 18-year-old Shauntelle Tynan (right) was diagnosed with an extremely rare form of cancer, multi-system …
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