A Maine resident has died from a rare but potentially dangerous tick-borne illness, health officials said. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it has confirmed a fatal… [+2076 chars]
The engineered rodents would look exactly like the native white-footed mice. But each of their cells would carry genetic code, specially tailored in an MIT lab, for resistance to the bacteria that ca… [+9039 chars]
Thousands of genetically altered mice could be released on Nantucket through an MIT lab for a project known as Mice Against Ticks. The project is hoping to prevent tick-borne diseases, research sta… [+2027 chars]
Childhood immunization dropped dramatically at the start of the pandemic as families stayed at home, and have been slow to catch up. Over the last two years, the CDC saw a more than 10 percent drop f… [+2094 chars]
At the end of February, the Centers for Disease Control released their 2020 maternal mortality data, and the results were sobering. The maternal mortality rate increased by a full 14 percent from 201… [+8579 chars]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is recommending residents stop using bird feeders and baths until the end of May due to an influenza strain that is impacting wild and d… [+916 chars]
A U.K. patient with a severely weakened immune system had COVID-19 for almost a year and a half, scientists reported, underscoring the importance of protecting vulnerable people from the coronavirus.… [+3203 chars]
A Maine resident has died from a rare but potentially dangerous tick-borne illness, health officials said. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it has confirmed a fatal… [+2076 chars]
New threats to the species, such as wind turbines or a bird flu strain, could threaten its long-term success. The resilience of these animals was very close to the edge, Dr. Schuler said. If a few mo… [+2269 chars]
Intermittent fasting was once hailed as a powerful strategy for weight loss, but the latest science shows its not exactly a miracle solution after all. First: Intermittent fasting is the process of … [+1799 chars]
Fish is brain food, said Dr. Mitchel Kling, the director of the memory assessment program at the New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging at the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine. One… [+1457 chars]
By Maggie Brown, WRAL multiplatform producer Durham, N.C. — While the latest COVID-19 subvariant of omicron, BA.2, is not as severe as previous variants, health experts are still concerned the virus… [+4015 chars]
