SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – There are five times the number of mosquitoes testing positive for West Nile virus this season than any other year in recent history, ...
MADISON, Wis. - Health officials said this year's first human case of West Nile virus in Wisconsin has been reported. The case involves a Dane County resident ...
Suffolk health officials said Friday that 29 new mosquito samples have tested positive for West Nile virus. The samples, which were tested between Aug. 7 and 9 ...
Officials with the Arizona Department of Health Services are asking people to check their immunization status immediately and be aware of symptoms of ...
Veterinarians frequently prescribe medication for pain management in pets. And now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning ...
Vets often resort to prescribing human opioids to pets because only one is approved for animals. The FDA issued a plea to veterinarians to think about the wider ...
The US Food and Drug Administration has raised alarm about one way people might access opioids to misuse and abuse: their pets. As America's opioid ...
The heart transplant program at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center is set to lose federal funding Friday, a serious blow to a Houston hospital long regarded as one ...
A bat discovered in a Lane County home has tested positive for rabies, county health officials announced Thursday. The animal was discovered by a resident of ...
AUBURN, Wash. - King County Public Health is issuing an alert after two rabid bats were found in Auburn earlier this week.Auburn Animal Control Services said ...
AUBURN, Wash. -- Two bats found on a sidewalk in Auburn on Monday morning have tested positive for rabies, and health officials on Thursday urged anyone ...
More than 16 million people in the U.S. take care of people with dementia. Could we learn something from how other cultures view dementia as more of a social ...
New research may have finally homed in on the reason why some people are found to have build-ups of toxic Alzheimer's proteins in their brains without ...
The damaging effects of Alzheimer's disease are thought to be partly caused by the build-up of protein plaques in the brain, which break down neural ...
The number of available Alzheimer's and dementia trials is ballooning, and you don't need to have the disease to help answer the biggest questions currently ...
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Health officials say customers at a downtown Indianapolis restaurant may have been exposed to hepatitis A. Anyone who dined at Fresco ...
Once they got into the laboratory, the scientists didn't hold back. The elephant tissue they'd collected was divided into several petri dishes, and then the ...
Elephants live for a long time, and are huge—why do they rarely die of cancer? alisha/Depositphotos. The longer you live, the higher your chances of ...
Amelia Weaver, the Hibbing girl whose fight with a rare form of epilepsy led her parents to the center of the campaign for medical marijuana in Minnesota, died ...
Amelia, the Hibbing girl who became one of the faces of medical marijuana in Minnesota, has died. She and her family played a big role in lawmakers' decision ...
HIBBING, Minn. — Amelia Weaver, the Hibbing girl whose fight with a rare form of epilepsy led her parents to the center of the campaign for medical marijuana in ...
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The Case Western Reserve biologists 'explore(d) the potential for parallel (and non-parallel) evolution of thermal tolerance across three cities using acorn ants as a model system' as these particular ants are 'highly sensitive to temperature, including in their development rate, running speed and thermal tolerance,' according to their paper. Credit: Lauren Nichols, Case Western Reserve University
The relatively swift adaptability of tiny, acorn-dwelling ants to warmer environments could help scientists predict how other species might evolve in the crucible of ...
About 7 or 8 years ago, I started experiences episodes of smelling a burning paper odor, even though there wasn't any source for the odor. It would last for a few ...
A small but very real percentage of people often smell odors that aren't actually there. About one in 15 Americans over the age of 40 regularly experience ...
Have you ever smelled something distinct, like an ash tray or burning, only to realize nothing is there? The condition is pretty common, according to a new report.
As many as one in 15 Americans over the age of 40 experience phantom odors, but some people are more likely to experience the bizarre phenomenon than ...
Some 45 million Americans wear contacts, and about one third confess to wearing them overnight sometimes, but the CDC is urging everyone to stop, as it can ...
A 42-year-old woman's doctors found a contact lens had gotten stuck behind her eyelid and eventually had a cyst grow around it. It may be a freak accident, but ...
In this short film, follow the incredible journey of Katie Stubblefield's family as they wait for a donor for her face transplant. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly...
As Katie Stubblefield brushed her fingers across her face, she could feel the wound. Her vision is greatly impaired due to her injury, but touching her face ...
When Katie Stubblefield was 18, she tried to kill herself with a gun. Now, she is the youngest face transplant recipient in US history and wants to raise awareness ...
A 21-year-old woman, who shot herself in a failed suicide bid, became the youngest person in the U.S. to receive a face transplant after the incident left her ...
Researchers from the Charité University, Berlin, found that stress causes the release of the hormone cortisol, which reduces brain cell connectivity in the region ...
It's time to check your drug cabinet, the FDA urges. Officials say a voluntary recall has been issued for thyroid medication made by Westminster Pharmaceuticals ...
A drug manufacturer is recalling bottles of thyroid medication because they were made with active ingredients were not sourced to proper FDA standards.
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The Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Agency announced in a news release yesterday the agencies' new goal for 2019: to reduce production of the ...
A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that overdose deaths hit 72000 in 2017. But what is fentanyl, the drug responsible for ...
The Trump administration on Thursday proposed that U.S. drugmakers cut production quotas of the six most abused opioids by 10 percent next year to fight a ...
Health officials across the country are monitoring the spread of measles across 21 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Centers for Disease Control is monitoring a measles outbreak in 21 states.That includes Michigan.Measles can be prevented with a vaccine.The CDC says ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday afternoon that 107 people from 21 states, including North Carolina, have reported ...
COLUMBUS (WCMH) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says an outbreak of Measles has now spread to 21 states with 107 reported illnesses ...
Well-balanced vegan diets may have major health benefits. But many of those benefits can be offset by deficiencies if the diet isn't managed carefully.
Calling all contact lens users: Do not panic. (Shuddering is fine.) Imagine going to the eye doctor because your upper eyelid is swollen and painful. The doctor ...
A 42-year-old British woman went to eye doctor because her left eyelid started to swell and ache. The doctors noticed her eyelid drooped a bit. But that wasn't ...
Researchers from Seoul National University found that retinas thin as the cells that produce the chemical dopamine die. Dopamine is responsible for ...
Michael J. Fox's impact on Parkinson's disease is undeniable, from the hundreds of millions of dollars of funding directed towards research, to his work reducing ...
All eyes may be on a new study from investigators at the Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, as scientists are suggesting that a patient's eyes ...
A 21-year-old Katie Stubblefield is now the youngest person to have received a face transplant in the US. Stubblefield was only 18 when she attempted suicide ...
Katie, 21-year-old from Oxford, Mississippi, lost her face after shooting herself when she tried to take her own life on March 25, 2014, after her boyfriend dumped ...
After a 31-hour-long face transplant surgery, 21-year-old Katie Stubblefield has turned over a new leaf in her life. She underwent 17 surgeries before finally ...
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have published a free graphic novel titled "The Junior Disease Detectives: Operation Outbreak," some of ...
A new graphic novel by the CDC instructs young readers about the fascinating detective work of scientists trying to discover the cause of an outbreak of ...
It's on page 21 of The Junior Disease Detectives: Operation Outbreak that things start to get a little weird. Eddie, one of the heroes of the story, tosses his cookies ...
With all the incredible medical and technological advancements coming out of the scientific community these days, you might not think that researchers would be ...
If you've ever tried to snap dried pasta in half, you know that it's hard to get just two even pieces; what you usually get instead is macaroni shrapnel everywhere.
With all the incredible medical and technological advancements coming out of the scientific community these days you might not think that researchers would be ...
If you've ever made pasta, then you've probably tried to break a long noodle like spaghetti or linguine. And when you did so, you probably noticed the pasta ...
Important news for pasta lovers: Researchers at MIT just figured out how to snap a strand of spaghetti into two perfect pieces, according to New Scientist.
Dena Knapp went to Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D., to have an adrenal gland and associated mass removed. Instead, according to a lawsuit, Dr.
An Iowa woman is suing her South Dakota doctor and his practice after she claims she went in for a procedure to remove a mass on her adrenal gland and came ...
(AP) – An Iowa woman is suing a South Dakota surgeon and his practice for wrongly removing one of her kidneys. The lawsuit filed by Dena Knapp alleges that ...
A New Jersey man started his day fishing for crabs but returned home with a body full of flesh-eating bacteria. Angel Perez of Millville, N.J., was crabbing in the ...
A New Jersey man had both his arms amputated after battling an infection from flesh-eating bacteria for more than a month. Angel Perez, 60, will likely have his ...
(CNN) -- Certain batches of hypothyroid medications are being recalled by Westminster Pharmaceuticals after one of its Chinese suppliers failed a US Food and ...
LEOMINSTER -- Mosquitoes that were recently collected in two separate areas in Leominster tested positive for the West Nile Virus, according to the Board of ...
Utah County Health Department officials confirmed Thursday that a human case of West Nile Virus was reported in Utah County, making it the first in Utah this ...
There have been 78 cases of Ebola reported in the current outbreak in the North Kivu and Ituri provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo as of Wednesday, ...
The World Health Organization says violence and insecurity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu region is preventing health workers from ...
Health care workers have been especially hard hit by the current outbreak of Ebola in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The World Health Organization said it expected more people to become infected by the virus which is spreading in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of ...
An estimated 2662 Michigan residents died from a drug overdose in 2017, according to a report released this week from the federal Centers for Disease Control.
Maine experienced a larger jump in drug overdose deaths than all but five other states in the 12-month period ending Jan. 31, a stark statistic highlighting ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) — There are a startling number of people dying from drug overdoses. The latest Centers for Disease Control estimates that a ...
ATLANTA -- The Centers for Disease Control released new estimates for the numbers of overdose deaths experienced nationwide and in each state Thursday.
PORTLAND (WGME) -- New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates a record 72000 Americans died of a drug overdose last ...
The measles used to be one of the world's most common childhood diseases. Since the introduction of the measles vaccine, however, the disease is rarely seen ...
The Center for Disease Control's mid-year review reports more than a 100 cases of measles in the United States so far this year. That number will likely surp...
HUNTSVILLE Ala. -- More than 100 cases of measles have been diagnosed this year across the country, including Tennessee and Florida. The Centers for ...
Almost 20 million Americans have a thyroid problem. If you have a slow working thyroid and take a common medication, the FDA advises you to check your ...
Boston (CNN) Kate Weissman sits at the edge of the patient table. Her oncologist goes over her medical records and says her most recent scans show no ...
Lauren and Cindy Weissman paid the $95,000 so their daughter could get the treatment her doctors recommended. "While she was in the fight for her life, she ...
Hypothyroid medications manufactured by Westminster Pharmaceuticals have been recalled after it was discovered that one of the company's Chinese suppliers ...
The Centers for Disease Control wants people to know that there is no current multi-state measles outbreak. Yes, people have come down with the preventable ...
An Iowa woman is suing a South Dakota surgeon and his practice for wrongly removing one of her kidneys.The lawsuit filed by Dena Knapp alleges that Dr.
Imagine having surgery and later finding out your doctor accidentally removed an organ. That's what federal court papers say happened to a northwest Iowa ...
When I went into the office one Saturday afternoon in August 1994, I planned to spend a few hours finishing a brief that was due in federal court Monday morning ...
White HouseDonald Trump wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to sue companies that make prescription pain medication because they "are really sending ...
Nearly everyone who wears contacts has fallen asleep with their lenses in at one point or another, but very few people can say they've done so for almost 30 ...
Emergency personnel respond to more than two dozen overdose cases in New Haven, Connecticut on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Authorities say the culprit ...
A syringe loaded with CBD oil is shown last year in a research laboratory at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Synthetic cannabinoids, which can be ...
CHICAGO — At least 76 people overdosed in New Haven, Connecticut using synthetic marijuana. The dangers of the man-made drug are on the rise. Synthetic ...
The ever-rising death toll from the synthetic opioid fentanyl showed graphically this week how vulnerable the United States has become to powerful drugs ...
Exposure to the notorious pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) during pregnancy could raise the risk of a child developing autism. The agent was ...
Prenatal exposure to certain insecticides was associated with increased risk for autism among Finnish mother-child pairs. Offspring of mothers who fell into the ...
The number of children and young people being treated for type 2 diabetes in England and Wales has gone up from 507 to 715 in four years, new figures show.
Carbonated drinks with their sugar *content* represented by sugar cubes. Food manufacturers have been urged to cut the sugar in their products by 20% by 2020.
The number of children with diabetes largely caused by obesity has soared 41 per cent in just three years, figures show. Analysis shows hundreds more young ...
The number of children and teenagers needing specialist treatment for type 2 diabetes has risen by 40 per cent in four years, in the latest evidence of the toll that ...
The military diet is becoming popular but you may not know exactly what this diet, that involves a lot of calorie-restriction and a strange assortment of foods, is.
NEW HAVEN — In the course of a couple days, New Haven first responders have treated over 100 overdoses on synthetic marijuana known as 'spice' or 'K2'.
Police say more than 70-people overdosed on the K-2 drug within a three-hour span Wednesday. . News, weather, sports, headlines for Central Virginia and ...
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Scientists from the University of Catania and Cairo University found a “solidified whitish mass” in a jar, left, in an Egyptian tomb. The substance turned out to be a 3,200-year-old piece of cheese, among the oldest ever discovered.University of Catania and Cairo University
A few years ago, a team of archaeologists cleaning sand from an ancient Egyptian tomb discovered a group of broken jars, one of them containing a mysterious ...
Archaeologists have discovered some 3,200-year-old cheese in an Egyptian tomb, and scientists analyzing the sample believe it's “probably the most ancient ...
If you're about to start the keto diet, you're going to want to make sure you know all the foods you can and cannot eat. Say goodbye to pizza, unless you buy.
Though many people claim the keto diet to be a game changer or a lifesaver, a newly released study raises questions about its ability to cause type 2 diabetes.
A keto or ketogenic diet is a very low-carb diet, which turns the body into a fat-burning machine. It has many proven benefits for weight loss, health and ...
It can be tough to eat keto while traveling and relaxing on vacation, but it's not impossible. Here are some tips that can help you to follow the keto diet while on ...
A Utah hepatitis A outbreak has killed three people since spreading from San Diego last year, but it's on the wane even as other states deal with similar ...
Health officials say a hepatitis A outbreak that originally spread from San Diego has killed three people in Utah, but it's now on the wane. Epidemiologists told ...
One particular case has health officials worried. (Florence, Ky.) – The Northern Kentucky Health Department is declaring a hepatitis A outbreak. The health ...
At The Sentinel, a popular, decade-old sandwich shop on New Montgomery Street in the Financial District, the sandwiches come with a side of political ...
Headlines are screaming about an environmental group's finding that Roundup glyphosate weed killer can be found in trace amounts in some breakfast cereal.
