Health

Lynn Tidlund Weeden was going about her life as usual, running her home daycare business in Massachusetts and spending time with family when she noticed small changes in her health. She was having night sweats, stomach pain and wasn't feeling like herself, so she went to the local hospital to get checked out, she said in a TikTok.After doctors…

Aerial view of Long Beach, California. (Getty Images) City officials declared a public health emergency Thursday after a tuberculosis outbreak left one person dead and nine others hospitalized. Health officials said the outbreak stemmed from a group of people who stayed together at a Long Beach hotel room. As of April…

Discussion Rural residents, particularly those in noncore counties, experienced high percentages of preventable premature deaths during the study period. The rural-urban disparities in premature deaths varied by cause of death. However, disparities were not limited to place of residence. Disparities in all-cause premature deaths also were…

Analysis of human brain tissue revealed differences in how immune cells behave in brains with Alzheimer's disease compared to healthy brains, indicating a potential new treatment target. University of Washington-led research, published in August, discovered microglia in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease were in a pre-inflammatory…

In the 10 years since the drugmaker Gilead debuted a revolutionary treatment for hepatitis C, a wave of new therapies have been used to cure millions of people around the world of the blood-borne virus.Today, 15 countries, including Egypt, Canada and Australia, are on track to eliminate hepatitis C during this decade, according to the Center for…

Several recent TikToks have claimed that freezing bread actually makes it healthier. Some of these mention there's research which backs up the claims.But is this food tip as good as social media influencers suggest? The science behind it is actually sound, albeit a little confusing. But the actual health effects are not nearly as significant as…

Concerns about chronic wasting disease have heightened after a case report surfaced of two hunters who developed neurological disorders and died after eating venison from a population of deer that may have been infected with "zombie deer disease."The report of the two hunters who died in 2022, presented in early April at the annual meeting of…

Federal regulators on Friday said that they had not yet discovered live bird flu virus in the first batch of retail milk samples they tested, a reassuring indication that the milk on store shelves remains safe despite an outbreak of the virus among dairy cows.In an online update, the Food and Drug Administration said an initial set of tests…

By Michelle RobertsDigital health editor26 April 2024Updated 1 hour agoImage caption, Steve Young, 52, is one of the UK patients enrolled on the trialAn important trial of the world's first "personalised" mRNA vaccine against the deadliest form of skin cancer - melanoma - is now under way in the UK. Steve Young, 52, from Stevenage, Herts, who…

A young Brazilian woman working in Colorado through an exchange program is paralysed and fighting for her life in the hospital after a rare bacteria infected her.Claudia de Albuquerque Celada, 23, was hospitalised on February 17, suffering from paralysis, dizziness, double vision and shortness of breath — and diagnosed with botulism two weeks…