Smoking cigarettes is the number one risk factor for lung cancer, with tobacco products causing up to 90 percent of lung cancer deaths in the United States. Without a doubt, the safest way to prote… [+3251 chars]
Estimated read time: 2-3 minutes SALT LAKE CITY The Salt Lake County Health Department announced Wednesday that two local cases of monkeypox have been confirmed. The department announced Monday tha… [+2048 chars]
Summary: Study reveals the CCR5 gene plays a critical role in linking memories in the brain. The HIV drug maraviroc suppresses the CCR5 gene and may be a potential new treatment to combat memory loss… [+5380 chars]
Occasionally, as a doctor, I am asked to see a patient in the emergency department who is completely mute. They sit motionless, staring around the room. I lift up their arm and it stays in that posit… [+3380 chars]
While a cough, fever and fatigue are often signs of COVID-19, Arizonans experiencing those symptoms right now may actually have the flu. Arizona is in the midst of an unusually late spike in flu ca… [+4016 chars]
The last known death in a cluster of cases was in 2018, and was linked to an outbreak of 18 cases in Upper Manhattan. A 2018 health department analysis showed that between 200 and 700 cases were rep… [+810 chars]
Smoking cigarettes is the number one risk factor for lung cancer, with tobacco products causing up to 90 percent of lung cancer deaths in the United States. Without a doubt, the safest way to prote… [+3251 chars]
Within days, the boy went from having cold symptoms to being unable to walk. To Peter Wright, a pediatric infectious diseases physician at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, it looked similar to pol… [+5406 chars]
By Jim ReedHealth reporter The majority of people in the UK who are unlucky enough to catch monkeypox will have a very mild form of the disease and recover quickly at home. A small number, though, m… [+6318 chars]
For nearly two years, as the Covid pandemic disrupted life around the globe, other infectious diseases were in retreat. Now, as the world rapidly dismantles the measures put in place to slow spread o… [+9724 chars]
No matter how hard we try, it's still difficult to find confidence when it comes to reading the nutrition label on certain foods. It's not our fault, however, because many manufacturing companies int… [+4056 chars]
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL 4 P.M. ET, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2022 MINNEAPOLIS – Seven healthy habits and lifestyle factors may play a role in lowering the risk of dementia in people with the highest ge… [+5067 chars]
