Eight of nine children exhibiting symptoms of a mysterious illness have been confirmed to be suffering from acute flaccid myelitis, a highly infectious polio-like disease that primarily strikes children, the Washington State Department of Health announced Friday. However, the ninth case, a 6-year old boy who died last Sunday, did not have the disease.
Naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, has become a vital tool in fighting the heroin and opioid epidemic. It can be administered with a syringe-like device that sprays the drug into the nose. But a voluntary recall has been issued by the manufacturer of the device, Teleflex.
Thirteen individuals have become ill from a serious and sometimes fatal fungal infection previously unseen in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The fungus, Candida auris, is known to occur in health care settings such as hospitals and nursing homes.
Former pro football player Kevin Turner has been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE, a neurodegenerative disease associated with repeated head trauma.
Fifth-grader Grace Szostak at Lincoln Elementary School in Caldwell, New Jersey, has no interest in being president someday. Why? "Gray hair," she said with a laugh. And too much stress.
Nobody likes to lose. (Weight or virginity perhaps being the exception.) Whether it's a game of poker, the affections of another or an election, a loss can feel like an embarrassing stain that won't come out. Or like a medical condition we need to quickly treat with a rematch, with a pint of ice cream or by declaring the whole thing rigged.
In a year that's seen an increase of drug overdoses and budget cuts in Connecticut, the state's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has been told it will lose its national accreditation and be placed on probation by the National Association of Medical Examiners.
The maker of the popular chocolate-hazelnut spread Nutella, loved by children and adults worldwide, wants a smaller serving size on its US jars to reflect how it says people use the product nowadays.
Inflammation in the brain has been associated with neurodegernative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and a new study links it for the first time to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
A male birth control study that showed positive results but may have been linked to depression has sparked debate about bias in contraceptive research.
The number of women dying worldwide from cancer is expected to rise to 5.5 million by 2030, roughly the equivalent population of Denmark, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society (PDF).
