When 11-year-old Roxli Doss was diagnosed with what appeared to be a rare, inoperable brain tumor in June, she faced it with courage. Each year, some 300 ...
Vaping has officially gone viral — but not among the people it was intended for. Rather than adults trying to quit smoking, it's young people who've never picked ...
Twice as many high school students used nicotine-tinged electronic cigarettes this year compared with last year, an unprecedented jump in a large annual ...
Every year Americans suffer from about a 1 billion colds and up to 20 percent of them get the flu, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Right now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting widespread flu activity in California, Georgia, and Massachusetts. In ten states including ...
Doctors stress that it isn't too late to get your flu shot. Get one as soon as you can, especially if you are an older adult, have a compromised immune system, ...
Opioids are only slightly more effective than placebos at treating pain, according to a new study published Tuesday. The study tracked the more than 26000 ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana has declared an outbreak of hepatitis A, hoping to keep numbers low for the contagious liver disease. It's the 15th state to ...
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One of the report cards in the JFK Digital Archive launched as part of the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, at the National Archives in Washington, on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011.JFK Library
Child abuse increases the day after school report cards are released - but only when kids get their grades on a Friday, a study in Florida suggests. The curious ...
MADISON — A Legionnaires' disease outbreak linked to UW Hospital's water system has infected 14 people with the pneumonia-like bacteria, and three have ...
The newspaper had profiled Stanley and Boyd in March , reporting she spent 41 percent of her salary on Stanley's transplant. The newspaper reported this week ...
Gov. Jay Inslee has proposed the state spend $30 million to help combat the opioid epidemic by creating new programs and complimenting actions already ...
Ebola has been reported in a number of locations in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, making the current outbreak the second worst in history. Getting ...
TUESDAY, Dec. 18, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Folks feeling lonely as the holidays approach have a lot of company, a new study suggests. Loneliness appears ...
Detroit meteorologist Jessica Starr asked for prayers after complications from Lasik-type eye surgery. Her death by suicide is now raising questions about the ...
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2 more cases of polio-like illness AFM confirmed in Michigan;...
LANSING, Mich. - Two more cases of a paralyzing illness have been confirmed in Michigan, including one in Ottawa County. The Michigan Department of Health ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has posted a map showing as of Dec. 14 which states have confirmed cases to date this year of the polio-like ...
Emily Jaceks December 18, 2018 07:37 AM. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - 2018 is setting the record for a rare, but serious disease. There have been 158 confirmed ...
People suffering from anxiety and depression may be at higher risk for developing other major health conditions like heart disease, suggests new research, ...
However, the study published in the journal Health Psychology showed that cancer was found as an exception to conditions impacted by depression and ...
Anxiety and depression may be leading predictors of conditions ranging from heart disease to headaches, having similar effects as long-established risk factors ...
New US research has found that depression and anxiety could be as bad for health as smoking and obesity, increasing the risk of conditions such as heart ...
Nationwide, reported cases of the flu are on the rise. Just last week, in a matter of a few days, the Lincoln Lancaster County Health Department reported 100 ...
The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources has announced new restrictions on Tennessee deer after a disease was detected in some of the state's ...
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Dr. Tanski with an assortment of vaping products in her office at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.Elizabeth Frantz for The New York Times
Time passes, technology advances, and next thing you know you have newspapers writing scaremongering stories about teens doing different drugs than last ...
The prospect of deleting gene mutations or inserting code into DNA to address genetic diseases is exciting, but questions remain for gene-editing approaches.
In an in-depth investigation, STAT reported on behind-the-scenes activities at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing at the University of ...
Two remarkable things took place last month in the world of biotechnology: A Chinese doctor claimed to have created two genetically modified human embryos ...
State inspectors, who were responding to a complaint, found infection-control problems related to the cleaning, disinfection, sterilization and storage of ...
LEBANON, Tenn. -- A disease that impacts one in one million people has changed the life of a Tennessee family forever, WTVF reports. One year ago, doctors at ...
You've probably heard that having children and breastfeeding them reduces a woman's lifetime risk of breast cancer. But according to new research, in the years ...
Some neurons in the brain protect themselves from Alzheimer's with a cellular cleaning system that sweeps away toxic proteins associated with the disease, ...
Some neurons never get clogged up with tau, the toxic protein that's been implicated in Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative disorders. A team of scientists ...
Eli Lilly established a partnership with AC Immune for an Alzheimer's drug worth up to $2 billion. The drug that was just licensed is only in the preclinical st.
Despite everything we know about how important it is to get regular health checkups, not many people like going to the doctor — so some physicians are coming ...
Think your doctor does a good job watching your blood pressure? Dr. Brian Goldman explains why the barber may be an even better choice. For guys, that is.
Researchers say they've pinpointed a possible culprit in chronic fatigue syndrome, reporting that an overactive immune system might send the entire body into ...
Chronic fatigue syndrome, a condition that causes extreme tiredness, could be triggered by an overactive immune system, a study has found. UK researchers ...
New research led by King's College London may have found an important clue to understanding how chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) begins. According to the ...
A small new study offers an intriguing clue about the baffling ailment known as chronic fatigue syndrome. Researchers in the UK say CFS, also known by its ...
Gen Z doesn't seem interested in the ways that generations of teens before them let off steam. According to 44,482 teens surveyed across America as part of the ...
Teenagers across the United States are vaping more than ever, a report released today found. The news comes as a fight over vape advertising and labeling ...
U.S. teens are turning to vaping in record numbers, with rates climbing dramatically since 2017. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has released its ...
America's teens report a dramatic increase in their use of vaping devices in just a single year, with 37.3 percent of 12th graders reporting “any vaping” in the past ...
A Texas inmate is suing the state's prison system, saying he was denied immediate treatment for a flesh-eating bacteria infection he contracted in prison that ...
A 37-year-old man who was sentenced to six months in prison on drug charges in 2016 is suing the Texas Department of Criminal Justice over claims that ...
WARNING: GRAPHIC *CONTENT*: Texas inmate, Harold Millican, 37, has sued the state's prison system for failing to take him to the hospital to be treated for a ...
An inmate is suing the Texas prison system after officials allegedly failed to adequately treat his flesh-eating bacteria infection for a week, letting the wound fester ...
One man shares how a stubborn weight loss plateau led him to the keto diet, but he eventually opted to abandon the approach. Read about his experience with ...
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Supporters held a gun flag as President Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Houston in October.Doug Mills/The New York Times
More people died from firearm injuries in the United States last year than in any other year since at least 1968, according to new data from the Centers for ...
A Mott Poll found that 25 percent of parents are unprepared for “parenting hungover” — taking care of their kids the day after drinking at a holiday party.
Researchers from the University of Michigan found one in 12 parents admitted to having been too drunk or hungover to fulfil their parenting responsibilities in the ...
Over the course of a child's school years, parents will almost certainly disagree with, or have concerns about, something a teacher does. It's inevitable, given a ...
"As far as children are concerned, they are mainly looking to spend a good time. If you can get them to enjoy themselves, they won't really care about the ...
Person shot multiple times outside Belleville apartment building, police sayPolice: Two arrested after shooting in Belleville, IL | Belleville News-DemocratVideo media
Officers say a person was shot multiple times outside a Southern Illinois apartment complex and they arrested two people in connection to the crime. The person ...
A case of a paralyzing illness has been confirmed in a young Douglas County resident, marking the third documented case of the rare condition so far in ...
Omaha World-Herald
Continued rise in Minn. suicides prompts plea for better prevention - StarTribune.com
Suicides rose in Minnesota in 2017 with an alarming increase in men taking their own lives, but fewer suicides among women. Those findings were released ...
Suicides increased 5 percent in Minnesota last year, prompting state officials to warn of a growing public health challenge and remind residents that there are ...
(New York) – Federal and state government efforts to reduce prescription opioids are inadvertently harming chronic pain patients in the United States, Human ...
published a 3 part series on “the nation's struggle to address its crippling opioid crisis, and the unintended victims left in its wake.” If you missed any of them, you ...
By Pat Anson, PNN Editor. Federal and state efforts to reduce opioid prescribing have harmed pain patients across the country and caused many doctors to ...
There's something in the water in Florida, but it's not the swamp monster locals may have feared. According to National Geographic, scientists have discovered a ...
Rumors of a two-foot-long spotted amphibian lurking in the swamps of northwestern Florida and southern Alabama circulated for years, but the eel-shaped ...
Everybody has their own weird, idiosyncratic habits that probably don't make sense to anybody else, but one Chinese man's tendency for personal daily ...
Who said socks are not deadly, a Chinese man recently got a severe Lung infection after he allegedly smelled his socks every night. The man who is a resident ...
A first-time mother's risk of pelvic floor disorders is strongly associated with how her baby is delivered, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of ...
A partnership between a mental health care provider and colleges is redefining emergency mental health care on campus – helping students get needed care ...
Exercise may be as good at drugs at reducing high blood pressure, research suggests. The study – the first of its kind – pooled data from almost 400 trials ...
Exercise may be as effective as prescribed drugs to lower high (140 mm Hg) blood pressure, suggests a pooled analysis of the available data, in what is thought ...
Exercise is as good as medicine for lowering high blood pressure, the first overview of research has concluded. Doctors should encourage their patients to get ...
The researchers, led by academics at the London School of Economics and Stanford University in the US, pooled the results of 391 trials, involving 39700 ...
London, UK: Exercise may be equally effective as the prescribed drugs to lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, suggests the first study of its kind, ...
Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital announced Monday that it's broken a 23-year-old record for the most heart transplants at an Illinois hospital in one ...
A couple of years ago, I wrote a purposely provocative post for the New York Times' Well blog arguing that it was reasonable for physicians to discuss serious ...
The governor says his proposed budget includes alternative treatments for some chronic pain conditions and plans to distribute fentanyl testing kits to slow the ...
The Washoe County Health District is reporting the first flu-related death of the 2018/19 flu season in Washoe County. According to the health district, the victim ...
Gently stroking a baby reduces activity in their brain associated with painful experiences, a study has found. The study, by University of Oxford and Liverpool ...
From 60,000 pounds of stone crabs to just 800 pounds! “This season, there is no season,” Eddie Barnhill said, an owner of Barnhill Fisheries Inc. “The stone crab ...
In a new policy statement , the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is urging doctors around the country to increase screening of women for perinatal ...
1. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended routine screening for postpartum depression (PPD) in mothers during well-child visits at 1, 2, 4, and ...
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Christmas can be a happy time, but the day before can has been linked to a 37% increase in heart attacks.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) affects up to 10 million Americans and, according to some estimates, as many as 10 to 20 percent more may suffer from a ...
Photo: In the first phase of her life after death, in March 2015, body donor Susan Potter lay encased in polyvinyl alcohol in a lab, the prelude to being frozen at ...
The Erie County Department of Health is investigating possible measles exposure at Williamsville South High School, according to a statement released ...
The Erie County Health Department has confirmed with 2 On Your Side that they are investigating a possible measles exposure that may have occurred at ...
WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (WKBW) — A potential exposure of measles is being investigated at Williamsville South High School. According to the Erie County Health ...
Staffers at a Detroit TV station are grieving after their popular meteorologist died by suicide last week. Jessica Starr recently underwent LASIK surgery and ...
A new technique using ultrasound to clear the toxic protein clumps thought to cause dementia and Alzheimer's disease is moving to the first phase of human ...
A man in China had a habit of walking home from work every day, taking off his socks and… taking a great big whiff of them, according to news reports.
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Seven-year-old Carson Miller (left), and his brother, 5-year-old Chase Miller (right), both have a degenerative brain disease called MEPAN syndrome. There are only 13 people in the world who have it.Courtesy of Andrew Ross-Perry
Scientists have long believed that animals in Antarctica have been isolated from harmful human-linked bacteria, but a new study suggests that is no longer the ...
The implant, yet to be named, becomes activated when the stomach naturally starts churning food during digestion. It was developed by a team of experts at the ...
Around the world, women outlive men. This is true in sickness and in health, in war and in peace, even during severe epidemics and famine. In most animal ...
When it comes to the secret of long life, the answer may be in your genes. Women live longer than men, a study suggests, because they are lucky enough to ...
A study has found that CBD -- a major chemical component in marijuana -- appears to increase pressure inside the eye of mice, suggesting the use of the ...
A study from researchers at Indiana University has found that CBD -- a major chemical component in marijuana -- appears to increase pressure inside the eye of ...
If you have diabetes, you might benefit from testing your blood sugar at home. Consumer Reports shows you which are the best blood glucose meters you can ...
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The study showed tired participants were willing to pay more for a food snack than those who had rested.
There's a reason that glazed donut might seem even more enticing if you're sleep-deprived: A new study suggests that even one night of lost slumber increases ...
MRI scans showed a boost of activity in areas of the brain linked to appetite and reward. Participants were more likely to buy chocolate and biscuits after losing ...
A $15 million gift from philanthropists Marc and Lynne Benioff will go toward expanding mental health services at the Oakland children's hospital that bears their ...
The American Diabetes Association 2019 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes includes several new and revised clinical practice recommendations designed ...
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In the midst of what's considered the nation's worst public health crisis so far in the 21st century, one Ohio county is dramatically reducing the number of deaths ...
Syracuse University defensive player Tim Green closes in on Pittsburgh quarterback John Congemi in a 1984 game in the Carrier Dome SU won 13-7. Photo by ...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University discovered that the psychoactive compound in marijuana 'turns on' genes that lead to brain inflammation which in turn ...
