Flu Sickens Thousands Across The Country
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View ArticleFlu Season Is Shaping Up To Be A Nasty One, CDC Says
The United States appears to be in the midst of an unusually severe flu season, officials at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The flu season started early, which is...
View ArticleChinese Scientists Clone Monkeys Using Method That Created Dolly The Sheep
Chinese researchers have finally figured out how to clone a primate, using the same technique Scottish researchers devised to clone the first mammal, Dolly the sheep, in the mid-1990s. Scientists in...
View ArticleFDA Panel Gives Qualified Support To Claims For 'Safer' Smoking Device
A tobacco product that its maker claims to be safer than cigarettes won qualified support from a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel Thursday. The advisers voted 8-1 to support cigarette giant...
View ArticleDoctors In China Lead Race To Treat Cancer By Editing Genes
Shaorong Deng is sitting up in bed at the Hangzhou Cancer Hospital waiting for his doctor. Thin and frail, the 53-year-old construction worker's coat drapes around his shoulders to protect against the...
View ArticleNo Downturn In Obesity Among U.S. Kids, Report Finds
Hopes were dashed this week that the United States was finally making progress in the fight against childhood obesity. Contrary to previous reports, the epidemic of fat has not abated. In fact, there's...
View ArticleJump In Overdoses Shows Opioid Epidemic Has Worsened
There's more bad news about the nation's devastating opioid epidemic. In just one year, overdoses from opioids jumped by about 30 percent, according to a report released Tuesday by the Centers for...
View ArticleFinancial Ruin Can Be Hazardous To Your Health
Losing your nest egg is apparently hazardous to your health — very hazardous. An analysis involving more than 8,000 Americans found that those who suffered a "negative wealth shock" — defined as losing...
View ArticleFDA Panel Affirms Safety Of Painkiller Celebrex
Updated at 1:54 p.m. A prescription painkiller that has been under a cloud for more than a decade is apparently safer than previously believed, a Food and Drug Administration panel concluded Wednesday....
View ArticleTherapy Made From Patient's Immune System Shows Promise For Advanced Breast...
Doctors at the National Institutes of Health say they've apparently completely eradicated cancer from a patient who had untreatable, advanced breast cancer. The case is raising hopes about a new way to...
View ArticleClinic Claims Success In Making Babies With 3 Parents' DNA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzO2PYtZtMg In a clinic on a side street in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, doctors are doing something that, as far as is publicly known, is being done nowhere else in...
View ArticleHer Son Is One Of The Few Children To Have 3 Parents' DNA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzO2PYtZtMg On the third floor of a big Soviet-era apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, the mother of one of the world's first babies created with DNA from three...
View ArticleDoctors Told Not To Order Electrocardiograms For Low-Risk Patients
Doctors shouldn't routinely perform electrocardiograms on patients at low risk for heart disease, an influential federal panel is recommending. While an ECG test of the heart's electrical activity is...
View ArticleResults Of At-Home Genetic Tests For Health Can Be Hard To Interpret
Rita Adele Steyn's mother had a double mastectomy in her 40s because she had so many lumps in her breasts. Her first cousin died of breast cancer. And Steyn's sister is going through chemotherapy for...
View ArticleDoctors Try Genetically Modified Poliovirus As Experimental Brain Cancer...
A genetically modified poliovirus may help some patients fight a deadly form of brain cancer, researchers report. The experimental treatment seems to have extended survival in a small group of patients...
View ArticleScientists Race To Improve 'Living Drugs' To Fight Cancer
Aaron Reid is lying in a hospital bed at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center when doctors arrive to make sure he's ready for his experimental treatment. "How's your night? Any issues?"...
View ArticleFDA Approves New Generic Version Of The EpiPen For Allergic Reactions
Editor's note: Story updated with additional information about generic pricing on August 17. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first identical alternative to the EpiPen, which is widely...
View ArticleFDA Intensifies Crackdown On E-Cigarette Sales To Teenagers
The Food and Drug Administration announced a set of major new enforcement actions Wednesday aimed at reducing the sales and marketing of electronic cigarettes to teenagers. Saying vaping among...
View ArticleUpdate: A Young Man's Experiment With A 'Living Drug' For Leukemia
It's early in the morning and 20-year-old Aaron Reid looks like he's sleepwalking. His head nods forward and he shuffles a bit as he heads toward the pediatric clinic at the National Institutes of...
View ArticleStudy: A Daily Baby Aspirin Has No Benefit For Healthy Older People
Many healthy Americans take a baby aspirin every day to reduce their risk of having a heart attack, getting cancer and even possibly dementia. But is itreally a good idea? Results released Sunday from...
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