MONDAY, Dec. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Predictably, flu season is in full swing, with cases surging across the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed Friday in a report. Thirteen states, including Tennessee and Louisiana, report high or very high levels of flu-like illness, doubleContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Just over 300 people have been sickened in norovirus outbreaks on three different cruise ships in December, new government data shows. This is the only month this year in which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported three confirmed norovirusContinue Reading
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In a case first reported in Louisiana last Friday, a patient has now developed the first known case of bird flu so severe as to require hospitalization, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Sixty other cases of H5N1Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A self-administered test can help empower women in identifying risks for cervical cancer. A new study published Dec. 12 in the journal PLOS Medicine shows the self-test for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection accurately identified women who either had cervical cancer or precancerous cellsContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Picture this: a beloved cat, playful and healthy one day, falls mysteriously ill the next. Soon after, the shocking culprit is revealed — bird flu, a virus that most people associate with poultry and wild birds. Now, scientists are warning that domestic catsContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — There’s early evidence that a mysterious flu-like illness that has sickened 416 people and left 75 dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo over recent weeks may be malaria. Laboratory samples taken from infected people are suggestive of malaria, although more research isContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In guidelines that may encourage more women to get screened for cervical cancer, a leading health task force has backed giving women over 30 the option to collect their own vaginal samples for testing. Instead of needing to have a complete pelvic exam,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Faced with rising cases of bird flu virus being detected in raw milk in California, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday announced it would mandate testing for the virus in milk nationwide. The National Milk Testing Strategy (NMTS) “builds on measuresContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A California dairy farm has expanded a recall of its raw milk and cream after state health officials discovered bird flu virus in more milk samples. In a notice posted Tuesday, Fresno-based Raw Farm LLC said it has now recalled all whole milkContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo are racing to try to identify the cause of a mysterious, flu-like illness that has sickened 376 people and left 79 dead in that country. In a alert posted on the social media platform XContinue Reading
MONDAY, Dec. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new study provides good evidence that the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine may be achieving its goal of slashing rates of cervical cancer. “We observed a … 62% drop in cervical cancer deaths over the last decade, likely due to HPV vaccination,” saidContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Worn down by pandemic-era vaccine overload, many Americans are ignoring pleas by health officials to get immunized against the flu and COVID-19, new data shows. According to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data for immunizations as of Nov. 9, only aboutContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Nov. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Over 600,000 people worldwide die from mosquito-borne malaria each year, with the majority of these deaths happening among children under 5. Now, there’s troubling news that the malaria parasite may be gaining resistance against artemisinin, the drug most often used to try andContinue Reading
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TUESDAY, Nov. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A cutting-edge genetic test can rapidly detect and identify almost any kind of disease-causing microorganism in the human body, whether it’s a virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite, researchers say. Doctors have been using the genetic test for more than a decade to identifyContinue Reading