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 ...
New York – An El Al Airlines flight attendant is now in a coma and battling encephalitis after contracting measles. Israel's Ministry of Health says she may have ...
State health officials say Iowa has confirmed its second case of measles since 2011. The Iowa Public Health Department said Thursday that the unvaccinated ...
A Brooklyn judge has sided with New York City health officials to uphold a mandatory measles vaccinations order, dismissing a lawsuit from a group of parents ...
A state judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit filed by anti-vaccination parents who sought to lift New York City's new measles vaccination mandate, as parts of ...
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 City health officials issued summonses to parents of three children Thursday for failing to have their children vaccinated against measles, a violation of ...
(Reuters) - 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 ...
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.
In a stunning scientific breakthrough, Yale School of Medicine researchers restored brain activity in pigs that had died hours before. The finding could ...
Dead pigs' brains have been partially revived in a study that upends established wisdom about what happens when we die, raising serious ethical questions ...
Researchers used an experimental gene therapy to develop a possible treatment for a rare and deadly immune disorder known as “bubble boy” disease, the ...
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.
A gene therapy has been developed to treat “bubble boy” disease, a condition in which babies lacking a functioning immune system must live in a sterile plastic ...
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 ...
In the largest grant ever awarded to the University of Kentucky, researchers from UK's Center on Drug and Alcohol Research (CDAR) and across campus — in ...
Kentucky is taking part in a new national effort to combat opioid addiction and overdose deaths, thanks to an $87 million grant from the federal government.
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 bill removes the personal belief exemption from required childhood vaccinations for measles, mumps and rubella. Seventeen states allow exemptions ...
Parents in Washington state may soon no longer be able to cite personal or philosophical reasons for not vaccinating their children for the measles virus after the ...
Washington's state Senate voted Thursday to eliminate some vaccine exemptions amid a measles outbreak hitting the state. The bill to eliminate personal or ...
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 ...
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, ...
A “polygenic score” for obesity, a quantitative tool that predicts an individual's inherited risk for becoming overweight, may identify an opportunity for early ...
A new study determined doctors can assign a risk score that can accurately predict the body mass index, obesity risk, and overall risk of disease using genes.
The Santa Clara County, California, health department said a person with measles visited Google's headquarters in Silicon Valley, which is in their county.
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 ...
Infant Dies Of Whooping Cough In Orange County - Orange County, CA - On Thursday, the OC Healthcare agency announced an infant died of complications ...
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 ...
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 ...
(Gray News) – A recall for medication used to treat high blood pressure has expanded for a fourth time, targeting more variants of generic losartan produced by ...
Dozens of people, including 53 medical professionals, have been charged for their alleged participation in the illegal prescription and distribution of opioids and ...
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 ...
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.
CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - The Cincinnati Health Department says a worker at U.S. Chili in Cincinnati was diagnosed with hepatitis A and customers may have ...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Doctors are working toward a diagnosis and care plan for a baby boy who has spent the first three months of his life in hospitals after he ...
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 ...
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - A doctor at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine made some important connections about the children who came down with ...
A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believe they've found the cause behind a polio-like ...
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 ...
An experimental gene therapy has restored functioning immune systems to seven young children with a severe disorder that would have sentenced them to a ...
In a strange twist of fate, part of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been used to cure the so-called “bubble boy” disease, a condition in which the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Maryland Department of Health said both cases involve people who reside in the same household, and that there's no evidence that the virus is spreading ...
LANSING, Mich. (WXYZ) — Three more cases of measles have been confirmed in Southeast Michigan, according to the state department of Health and Human ...
(CNN) -- 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 ...
The country's oldest heart disease study, run by Boston University and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), will research how aging affects the ...
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 ...
The rabbit-sized heart was made from a patient's own cells and tissues, using techniques that could help to increase the rate of successful heart transplants in ...
In a mid-sized study hall in Jerusalem, rows of men in white shirts and black pants are swaying to the sing-song of Talmudic verses. Some sit, hunched over their ...
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 ...
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 ...
What we eat can affect heart health. But new research is also focused on determining whether the time that we eat also impacts risk. One team of scientists adds ...
People who skip breakfast and eat dinner near bedtime have worse outcomes after a heart attack. That's the finding of research published today in the European ...
People who frequently skip breakfast and regularly eat dinner less than two hours before going to bed are less likely to survive if they suffer a heart attack.
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 ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services says that two new measles cases in southeastern Michigan had exposures in ...
New York City's Board of Health has unanimously voted to uphold the Health Department's emergency order announced last week that requires everyone in four ...
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 ...
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 ...
A flight attendant in Israel has been in a coma for 10 days after contracting measles following a flight from New York, CNN reported Wednesday, as measles ...
Children in the UAE are at less risk of the measles outbreak currently sweeping across the world, thanks to the stringent national vaccination programme.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
It has four chambers, blood vessels and it beats — sort of. In a first, scientists have 3D printed a heart using human tissue. Though the heart is much smaller than ...
This article originally appeared on VICE India. In a development that has got hearts racing, the world just got its first 3D-printed heart, created using human ...
A CRISPR clinical trial is currently underway at the University of Pennsylvania, where researchers are testing the efficacy of gene-editing technologies in.
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 ...
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 ...
If it feels like your allergy-induced runny nose and red-rimmed eyes are getting worse each year — and lasting longer — you're not imagining things, according ...
Dr. William Hark feels this allergy season is worse than in years past thanks to the huge amount of rainfall Virginia saw in 2018 and the solid cold temperatures ...
ITCHY eyes, a runny nose and a headache... symptoms which those with hay fever will dread at the first sight of spring. But now even more people are set to ...
The discovery of general anesthesia 170 years ago was a medical miracle, enabling millions of patients to undergo invasive, life-saving surgeries without pain.
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 ...
Whether it's from tv screens, video screens, computers, laptops, tablets, or phones, a new study suggests pre-schoolers behaviour is negatively affected when ...
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.
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 ...
Compared with their peers who spent no more than a half-hour in front of a screen each day, 5-year-olds who logged over two hours were six times more likely ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Some Google employees are alarmed they weren't told sooner that a colleague with measles had walked around buildings at their Silicon ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WTHR) – Indiana University confirms 16 cases of mumps, with nine of those being linked to one fraternity. On April 4, the university ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.– Indiana University says 16 students have now been diagnosed with mumps. That number more than doubles last week's report of seven ...
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 ...
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 ...
"Our results strongly suggest that people who eat red and processed meat four or more times a week have a higher risk of developing bowel cancer than those ...
(CNN) — 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 ...
A drug used to treat type 2 diabetes called empagliflozin may also be an effective treatment for heart failure. The findings were revealed in a newly published.
The mother and father of a New Jersey man who died of a rare brain-eating amoeba after visiting a Texas water park have filed a wrongful death lawsuit, ...
Waco, Texas -- A mother whose son died from a "brain-eating amoeba" after visiting a Texas surf resort in September is suing the park for over $1 million, CBS ...
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, ...
Sign advertising free measles vaccines and information about measles are displayed at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y., Wednesday, ...
A transgender migrant from Honduras died in ICE custody last year from a rare, AIDS-related illness called multicentric Castleman disease, according to the ...
Syphilis is spreading from big cities into rural counties across the Midwest and West. One Missouri clinic has seen more than six times as many cases in the first ...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in San Francisco with the number of women infected with syphilis increasing by ...
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) -- Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in San Francisco with the number of women infected with syphilis increasing by 144 ...
Regular infusions of an antibody that blocks the HIV binding site on human immune cells may have suppressed levels of HIV for up to four months in people ...
Doctors used a cutting-edge medical technique called gene therapy to treat 10 babies born with the disease. The biotech that helped saw its stock surge.
A Blairstown woman is recovering after being twice bitten by a rabid fox that also attacked her daughter, who tossed an ax at the charging beast before whacking ...
A woman was bitten twice by a rabid gray fox in New Jersey on Saturday afternoon and her daughter tried to use an ax and a shovel to kill the animal, according ...
