A Man's Journey From Nepal To Texas Triggers Global TB Scramble
We don't know too much about a Nepalese man who's in medical isolation in Texas while being treated for extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, the most difficult-to-treat kind. Health...
View ArticleAspirin Vs. Melanoma: Study Suggests Headache Pill Prevents Deadly Skin Cancer
It's not the first study that finds the lowly aspirin may protect against the deadliest kind of skin cancer, but it is one of the largest.And it adds to a mounting pile of studies suggesting that...
View ArticleWhy Relatives Should Be Allowed To Watch CPR On Loved Ones
Picture this: Your spouse or child has collapsed and isn't breathing. You call 911, and the paramedics rush in and take charge. But you are banished to another room while the medical people try to...
View ArticleCardiac Arrest Survivors Have Better Outlook Than Doctors Think
Every day something like 550 hospitalized Americans suffer cardiac arrest. That's bad news. Only about one in five will live to leave the hospital.But for the lucky 44,000 a year who are resuscitated...
View ArticleMore Patients Keep HIV At Bay Without Antiviral Drugs
Just last week AIDS researchers were excited about a Mississippi toddler whose blood has remained free of HIV many months after she stopped getting antiviral drugs – what doctors call a "functional...
View ArticleTo Control Asthma, Start With The Home Instead Of The Child
Nothing sends more kids to the hospital than asthma.So when doctors at Children's Hospital in Boston noticed they kept seeing an unusually high number of asthmatic kids from certain low-income...
View ArticleSorting Out The Mammogram Debate: Who Should Get Screened When?
Mammography outcomes from nearly a million U.S.
View ArticleCatalog Of Gene Markers For Some Cancers Doubles In Size
The largest gene-probing study ever done has fished out dozens of new genetic markers that flag a person's susceptibility to breast, ovarian and prostate cancer.The 74 newly discovered genetic variants...
View ArticleAs Stroke Risk Rises Among Younger Adults, So Does Early Death
Most people (including a lot of doctors) think of a stroke as something that happens to old people. But the rate is increasing among those in their 50s, 40s and even younger.In one recent 10-year...
View ArticleHuman Cases Of Bird Flu In China Draw Scrutiny
Sixteen cases of a new flu around Shanghai have touched off a major effort to determine what kind of threat this new bug might be.The victims range in age from 4 to 87 years old. Six have died. It is a...
View ArticleFeds Fault Preemie Researchers For Ethical Lapses
Federal officials say a large study of premature infants was ethically flawed because doctors didn't inform the babies' parents about increased risks of blindness, brain damage and death.The study...
View ArticleScientists Race To Stay Ahead Of New Bird Flu Virus
A precious package arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last Thursday afternoon.Inside, packed in dry ice to keep it frozen, was a vial containing millions of viruses derived from...
View ArticleBoston Doctors Compare Marathon Bomb Injuries To War Wounds
Boston hospitals always staff up their emergency rooms on Marathon Day to care for runners with cramps, dehydration and the occasional heart attack.But Monday, those hospitals suddenly found themselves...
View ArticleWith Bird Flu, "Right Now, Anything Is Possible"
An international dream team of flu experts assembled in China today.Underscoring the urgency that public health agencies feel about the emergence of a new kind of bird flu, the team is headed by Dr....
View ArticleFailure Of Latest HIV Vaccine Test: A 'Huge Disappointment'
The largest current study of an AIDS vaccine, involving 2,500 people, is being stopped.After an oversight committee took a preliminary peek at the results this past Monday, they concluded there was no...
View ArticleMother And Daughter Injured In Boston Bombing Face New Future
Forty-seven-year-old Celeste Corcoran is propped up in her hospital bed. In a nearby window is a forest of blooming white orchids from well-wishers. On the opposite wall, a big banner proclaims...
View ArticleRecovery Begins For Mother, Daughter Injured In Boston
The number of Boston bombing victims still in the hospital dropped to 19 as of Wednesday evening.
View ArticleOfficials Prepare For Another Flu Pandemic — Just In Case
There's been a buzz of activity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta since scientists got their first samples of a new bird flu virus from China four weeks ago.Already they've...
View ArticleMiddle East Virus Spreads Between Hospitalized Patients
It's been eight months since a Saudi Arabian doctor described a previously unknown virus related to SARS.
View ArticleResearchers Find Bird Flu Is Contagious Among Ferrets
Scientists have completed the first assessments of how readily the H7N9 flu virus in China can pass among ferrets and pigs. The mammals provide the best inkling of how dangerous these bugs may become...
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