A doctor looks at a PET brain scan at the Banner Alzheimers Institute in Phoenix. Two experimental drugs failed to prevent or slow mental decline in a study of people…
French lab scientists in hazmat gear inserting liquid in test tube manipulate potentially infected patient samples at Pasteur Institute in Paris, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. Scientists at the Pasteur Institute…
A plane carrying evacuees from the virus zone in China lands at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on Wednesday in San Diego. One of two jets carrying Americans fleeing the…
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization, waits prior the opening of the 146th session of the World Health Organization Executive Board, at the World Health Organization…
This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January 2020 shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). This virus was identified as the cause of an outbreak…
Pharmacist Mary Chindanyika looks at documents on a fridge containing a trial vaccine against HIV on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. The latest attempt at an HIV vaccine…
The main entrance to March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, Calif. Nearly 200 Americans evacuated from China because of the new virus are “very relieved’ to be quarantined at March…
Eighteen-year-old Nina Nichols takes her daily dose of Palforzia as her mother, Maria Acebal watches, in her home in Washington. On Friday, Jan. 30, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration…
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks at a news conference about the federal government’s response to a virus outbreak originating in China, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, in Washington.…
Two new cases were reported Sunday – one in Los Angeles County in California and the other in Maricopa County, Arizona. The latter case was someone with ties to Arizona…
Robin Addison, a nurse at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Wash., demonstrates how she wears a respirator helmet with a face shield. It is similar to the one she…
Practice can provide benefits from head to toe
Pharmacist Liu Zhuzhen stands near a sign reading “face masks are sold out” at her pharmacy in Shanghai, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. Heightened precautions were being taken in China and…
People wear face masks as they ride an escalator at the Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. Face masks sold out and temperature checks at…
Coronavirus could spread more quickly during busy travel season
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials say they will begin taking temperatures and asking about symptoms of passengers at three U.S. airports who traveled from the outbreak city of…
According to federal health statistics, Americans are drinking more now than when Prohibition was enacted a century earlier. What’s more, it’s been rising for two decades, and it’s not clear…
Zach Ault of Paducah, Ky., is connected to medical monitors during an exercise test at the National Institutes of Health’s hospital in Bethesda, Md. Ault has ME/CFS, what once was…
A man on a scooter passes a parked scooter along the Mission Beach boardwalk in San Diego. Electric scooter injuries have surged along with their popularity in the United States,…
This 1964 photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a lung tissue specimen from a patient with adenocarcinoma of the lung. On Wednesday, Jan. 8,…
Melissa Breaux Bankston, a CrossFit athletic trainer at CrossFit Algiers in New Orleans, works out at the gym Monday, Dec. 23, 2019. She participates in an intermittent fasting diet.Gerald Herbert/Associated…
A sign at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y., explains the local state of emergency regarding a measles outbreak. There were nearly 1,300 case of measles in the…
Dr. Hassan Nemeh, surgical director of Thoracic Organ Transplant, shows areas of a patient’s lungs during a news conference at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. A Henry Ford Health System…
One attention-grabbing idea being explored: Labeling foods with “exercise calories,” or the amount of physical activity needed to burn them off.Associated Press file Health experts for years have pushed for…
In this 2016 photo provided by Thomas Marrinson, Allison Beach holds the hand of her ailing mother, Kathryne Beach, inside her home in Hinesburg, Vt. Allison Beach and her husband…
‘I felt as if I had no purpose,’ Tasha Rayburn says
Two women smoke cannabis vape pens at a party in Los Angeles. On Dec. 12, , U.S. health officials said 26 states have reported deaths, for a total of 52.Associated…
A capsule of the purified, prescription fish oil Vascepa. On Dec. 13, U.S. regulators approved expanded use of the medication for preventing serious heart complications in high-risk patients already taking…
New results published Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, in JAMA Pediatrics from the largest long-term study of brain development and children’s health raise provocative questions about obesity and brain function.Associated Press…
A woman browses her smartphone in Philadelphia. Accidental cuts and bruises to the face, head and neck from cellphones are sending increasing numbers of Americans to the emergency room, according…
