Women advised to sleep on side to help prevent stillbirth
Source: BBC News Women are being advised to sleep on their side in the last three months of pregnancy to help prevent stillbirth. A study of just over 1,000 women […]
Medical first: Doctors attempt to gene-edit a living patient’s DNA
Source: CNN By Susan Scutti (CNN)A man may soon be forever free of the previously incurable disease he was born with 44 years ago. On Monday, in a medical first, […]
Bill Gates’ newest mission: Curing Alzheimer’s
Source: CNN By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Chief Medical Correspondent Video by Nadia Kounang, CNN (CNN)It’s one of the holy grails of science: a cure for Alzheimer’s. Currently, there is no treatment […]
‘Urgent need’ for football header research
Source: BBC News Scientists investigating links between heading footballs and dementia say there is an urgent need for more research. It follows the screening of a BBC documentary “Dementia, football and […]
Beware potential signs of pancreatic cancer
Source: BBC News One in three adults might ignore potential symptoms of pancreatic cancer, according to a charity. Stomach ache, indigestion, unexplained weight loss and faeces that float rather than […]
Malaria breath test shows promise
Source: BCC News By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online Image copyrightWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY People with malaria give off a distinctive “breath-print” that could be used as a test for the […]
President Carter: Lack of Universal Healthcare Should Be a ‘National Scandal’
Source: Time By Gro Harlem Brundtland and Jimmy Carter November 8, 2017 Gro Harlem Brundtland is a former Prime Minister of Norway and former Director-General of the World Health Organisation. Jimmy […]
Stop Using Antibiotics in Healthy Animals, World Health Organization Says
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin November 7, 2017 About 80% of antibiotics worldwide are used in animals, something health experts say is contributing to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance, in […]
Young People’s Blood Could Help Treat Alzheimer’s
Source: Time By Alice Park It sounds more like science fiction than real world science, but researchers at Stanford University announced the first results of a novel study in which they […]
Red Cross: $6 Million Meant to Fight Ebola Was Stolen Through Fraud
Source: Time By Clarence Roy-Macaulay and Krista Larson / AP (FREETOWN, Sierra Leone) — Fraud by Red Cross workers and others wasted at least $6 million meant to fight the deadly […]
Gut bacteria ‘boost’ cancer therapy
Source: BBC News By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent, BBC News Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Bacteria living in the murky depths of the digestive system seem to influence whether tumours […]
Catholic Hospital Group Grants Euthanasia to Mentally Ill, Defying Vatican
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Francis X. Rocca Oct. 27, 2017 5:30 a.m. ET VATICAN CITY—A chain of Catholic psychiatric hospitals in Belgium is granting euthanasia to non-terminal patients, […]
Why Dreaming May Be Important for Your Health
Source: Time BY Amanda MacMillan Oct 27, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Doctors have warned for years that Americans are not getting enough sleep, with health consequences ranging […]
Why the Department of Health and Human Services should stop saying life begins at conception
Source: Los Angeles Times BY Richard Paulson Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services released a draft of its latest strategic plan, which will guide the agency from […]
Narcan Is Now Sold at Walgreens. What’s That?
Source: Time BY Alice Park Oct 26, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency Thursday, the same week Walgreens announced it […]
Typhoid vaccine set to have ‘huge impact’
Source: BBC News By James Gallagher A new vaccine that could prevent up to nine-in-10 cases of typhoid fever has been recommended by the World Health Organization. Experts say it […]
Patients need rest, not antibiotics, say health officials
Source: BBC News By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES More patients should be told to go home and rest rather than be given […]
Assisted dying: Australia state lawmakers in 26-hour debate
Source: BBC News A landmark assisted dying bill has passed through the lower house of Australia’s second-most populous state after a marathon all-night debate. Lawmakers in Victoria discussed the voluntary […]
1 in 9 Men Have Oral HPV
Source: Time BY Alexandra Sifferlin Human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections in the U.S. It’s so common that federal experts say that nearly every sexually active man or woman will be infected with at least one strain at some point in their lives. HPV can infect many different […]
7 Daily Habits Extremely Successful People Swear By
Source: Time BY Paul Schrodt Oct 10, 2017 How do you become an uber-rich mogul in the vein of Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey? Well, it might help to emulate the […]