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Tuberculosis is one of the world's leading killers. Every year at least 9 million people are infected with TB, with almost 2 million deaths, according to estimates from the World Health Organization. Yet few citizens, scientists and policymakers are demanding more attention to TB research, treatment and prevention.
Enough already with the whining, moaning, demonstrating and protesting by health care workers. Doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, nurses’ aides, and anyone else who has regular contact with patients ought to be required to get a flu shot or find another line of work.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs now estimates that more than 600 veterans erroneously received letters telling them they had been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, VA spokeswoman Katie Roberts said Thursday.
Former Air Force reservist Gale Reid received a letter from the Veterans Affairs Department that told her she had Lou Gehrig's disease, and she immediately put herself through a battery of painful, expensive tests. Five days later, the VA said its "diagnosis" was a mistake.
A new study has linked feeling forlorn to a nearly 80 percent increase in the risk of heart disease — but only in women.
Foreigners who have HIV would be allowed to travel and immigrate to the United States under a plan by federal health officials to lift a 22-year ban on infected visitors that critics say was unnecessary from the start.
The phone had not even finished its first ring before my wife, Anna, snatched it from its cradle. Concern was etched in her face as she handed me the receiver: “It’s the police. It’s about Sue.”
There was ample opportunity this week to turn on the television and wonder why we were watching. The screens were filled with non-news stories about Elizabeth Edwards, Jon & Kate, and Miss California, Carrie Prejean.
A little beetle could cause big problems for Florida's multimillion-dollar avocado industry.
The governors of Wyoming and Idaho say a federal plan to create a special livestock disease management zone in the Yellowstone region would "taint" the area's cattle industry but do nothing to eliminate the disease.
“No contact anywhere with an illegal alien!” conservative talk show host Michael Savage advised his U.S. listeners this week on how to avoid the swine flu. “And that starts in the restaurants" where he said, you “don’t know if they wipe their behinds with their hands!”
With the swine flu outbreak rapidly spreading, state and local health officials are queasily considering what effect a pandemic could have on their budgets, already due for deep spending cuts amid the lingering recession.
Statin drugs, taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease, also can cut the risk of developing dangerous blood clots that can lodge in the legs or lungs, a major study suggests.
To most Americans, diseases with names like dengue fever, chikungunya, malaria, Chagas and leishmaniasis might sound like something out of a Victorian explorer’s tales of hacking through African jungles. Yet ongoing epidemics of these diseases are killing millions of people around the world. Now, disease experts are increasingly concerned these and other infections may become as familiar in the United States as West Nile or Lyme disease.
British experts said Tuesday that they have found the first evidence of a hemophiliac contracting mad cow disease from contaminated blood products.
One in four — or almost 80 million — Americans have some form of heart disease. It is the No. 1 killer disease in America, and up to half of those deaths could be prevented by changes in lifestyle, with diet leading the troops.
Former heavyweight boxer Scott LeDoux has Lou Gehrig's disease.
Dr. Stephen Vogel should know better than to put chopped chicken livers on his Thanksgiving menu.
There are searing images that make indelible and emotional imprints on our brains. The burning twin towers. Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald. Jack Nicholson’s demonic face in “The Shining.” I experienced one of those images as a medical student, on the first day I stepped into an anatomy laboratory.
People with low cholesterol and no big risk for heart disease had dramatically lower rates of heart attacks, death and stroke if they took the cholesterol pill Crestor, a large study found.
The U.N. health agency says it is investigating a mystery disease that killed three people in the South African city of Johannesburg.
An injected Johnson & Johnson biologic drug used to treat several immune diseases controlled Crohn's disease, a difficult-to-treat bowel disorder, better than a widely used pill, a study found.
In a new and disturbing twist on the obesity epidemic, some overweight teenagers have severe liver damage caused by too much body fat, and a handful have needed liver transplants.
Montana has lost its federal disease-free status for brucellosis, triggering mandatory testing of cattle being shipped out of state.
Investing just $10 per person — roughly the price of a six-pack of beer and some chips — could greatly fuel community programs that get couch potatoes moving, prevent smoking and improve nutrition, researchers say.
Mummies Show Signs of Heart Disease and Other Health NewsA new study reveals signs of heart disease in mummies of Egyptians who lived almost 3,500 years ago, a finding that surprised even its authors, Health Day reports.
Woman Kicked Off Flight In H1N1 ScareHONOLULU -- A Hawaii Kai woman got kicked off a United Airlines plane bound for Honolulu Monday when the flight crew accused her of having the flu.
H1N1 Hospitalizations Twice Normal Flu SeasonLOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Compared to the regular seasonal flu, the H1N1 virus is putting people at greater risk for developing serious complications.
Neutered HIV Virus Delivers Treatment to Fatally Ill BoysResearchers may have taken a step towards curing the rare, inherited brain disease made famous by the movie Lorenzo's Oil–and also towards ushering a new era of gene therapy.
Domestic Horse Genome Sequenced"An international team of researchers has decoded the genome of the domestic horse..." -Science Daily
Another reason to cover your cough: pets at riskUS veterinarians have reported that a pet cat in Iowa has contracted the H1N1 virus, apparently from its sick owners. The flu has also been reported in two pet ferrets, who were believed to have been similarly infected by their owners.
Vets Warn Of Potential Dog FluPLATTSBURGH, N.Y. -- Forget the swine flu, dog flu is making its way into the canine population and vets say it's no joke.
Truck Carrying H1N1 Vaccines Stolen From ClinicMILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee police have arrested a man accused of stealing a truck carrying 900 doses of swine flu vaccine. The suspect is a 38-year-old man with a criminal record. Police are looking for two other men who were seen in the vehicle with him.
A Resurgence for Gene Therapyscientists say gene therapy may be on the edge of a resurgence.
Three more succumb to encephalitis, toll reaches 481With three more children hailing from Kushinagar succumbing to encephalitis here today, the toll due to the deadly brain fever has reached 481 since January this year in eastern districts of Uttar Pradesh.
Are Bald Bears Without Bear Hair Need Care Bears?YOU would have thought a fur coat would have been the ultimate bear necessity. But not for unfortunate Dolores, who has lost all her body hair and has been left with just a few tufts around her head.
Clearly it is. Halloween is an ole-fashioned and traditional holiday where parents will risk the health and well-being of their children, their neighbors, themselves and society at large in exchange for candy.
Exploring The Final Frontier: Disease Proposed As Major Barrier To Mars And BeyondA new report appearing in The Journal of Leukocyte Biology argues that human missions to Mars, as well as all other long-term space flights might be compromised by microbial hitchhikers, such as bacteria.
Santa Cruz County Clinics Out Of H1N1 VaccineSANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Santa Cruz County has exhausted their current supply of H1N1 vaccines and will be unable to provide vaccinations at public county clinics until further notice, health officials said Wednesday.
Church To Sick Parishioners: Skip MassBOSTON -- The Catholic Church is urging sick parishioners to not attend Mass, as the church takes new steps to protect against the spread of the H1N1 flu.
Rise Up and Fight the Swine Flu Conspiracy, Says 'Gen. Bert'Of all the fantastic musings and mutterings about the H1N1 flu and vaccine, few are more outrageous than the pronouncements of retired Army Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine III and his psychiatrist wife, Rima Laibow...
'Gay marriage' and homosexuality: some medical commentsMedical doctors summarize research on the health risks of homosexuality
Rethinking the benefits of breast and prostate cancer screening - TIME.comFor two decades, the public-health message has been that cancer screening saves lives. In some cases, especially with cancers of the cervix and colon, screening does, in fact, work as it should: sniffing out disease at its earliest and most curable stages.
African governments on the improve, but corruption on the rise – UN reportAfrican nations have made marginal progress in the core areas of governance over the last four years, according to a new United Nations report, which has expressed concern over a rise in corruption in the continent's authorities in the same period.
BBC NEWS | Shame 'boosts hand-washing rate'People are more likely to wash their hands when they have been shamed into it, research suggests. A London School of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine team used sensors to examine the reactions to hygiene messages displayed in service station toilets.
Don't Let Obama Put GMO Boosters in Charge of Food Safety!This is a health issue in the US, GE or GMO food is outlawed in most of the civilized world, but we are still held captives by our greedy corporations. We will never get a handle on the healthcare crisis in America until we change our food system and our food policy.
You Stink: Odorprints RevealedEach person has a signature body odor — the chemical counterpart to fingerprints — and scientists are tracking down those odiferous arches, loops, and whorls in the "human odorprint" for purposes ranging from disease diagnosis to crime prevention, according to an article in C …
On a strong level, I feel the troubles coming. I have been preaching this on the streets, that the time is closing,and I don't mean in general, I mean in the spirit, I feel it. If we are not ready, we will be caught in the attacks yet to come.
Take a deep breath -- more bad news on air pollutionIt's easy to see how air pollution would affect respiratory disease: You breathe in smog-filled miasma all day and the ozone, other noxious gases and small particulate matter therein can make you wheeze and cough.
Limbaugh says, rather than swine flu, he'll call H1N1 "the Rosie O'Donnell virus""I don't want to take the time to say H1N1 every time I have to talk about this, so I'm just gonna call it the Rosie O'Donnell virus..."
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