A tuberculosis case has been confirmed at Lane Middle School, with potential exposure dating back six months, prompting a health investigation. United States: A case of tuberculosis in a person at Lane Middle School has been reported, according to Multnomah ...
A colder winter has led to a surge in ticks across the US, with New York especially at risk. Experts warn of increased disease threats like Lyme as tick numbers and human contact rise. United States: A cold winter is ...
United States: Donald Trump, the president, resurrected a proposal on Monday that would see the cost of prescription medicines in the US tied to what other countries pay for the same medicines. His executive order, nonetheless, leaves a lot of ...
United States: A newer drug combo reduces “bad” LDL cholesterol for those whose levels don’t fall, despite statins. The new pill combines a new drug known as obicetrapib and an older one, ezetimibe. This combo, as Cleveland Clinic researchers reported, ...
United States: The recent flu season has taken more children’s lives than it has in 15 years, since the swine flu epidemic, with 216 children reported to have died, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported twelve ...
United States: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Monday that backyard poultry caused a new salmonella outbreak, resulting in seven confirmed illnesses across six different states. More about the news Health authorities at the Centers for ...
United States: The recently released federal report shows that this flu season killed more US children than any season since the year when the swine flu pandemic hit 15 years ago. More about the news Pediatric deaths reported to the ...
United States: Virologists worldwide more than 40 in number have rung an alert regarding the increasing threat from H5N1 avian flu which manifests in humans with symptoms that include coughing and pain throughout the body while causing fatigue and pneumonia ...
United States: A team of English surgeons and attendants arrived in Leicester last Wednesday to hear about a surgical operation that was completely new to the medical history of the nation. British medical history recorded Vanellope Wilkins as the only ...
United States: Standard pneumonia treatment exposures enabled researchers to eliminate Lyme disease from mice using 100 times reduced drug amounts. The drug administered at reduced measurements preserved most of the animals’ gut microbial populations through its specific pathogen-targeting mechanism. More ...