By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, Associated Press A large international study questions the conventional wisdom that most people should cut back on salt, suggesting that the amount most...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The clock is ticking for hundreds of thousands of people who have unresolved issues affecting their coverage under the...
(Pew Research) – For the first time in decades, the non-marital birth rate in the U.S. has been declining, according to a new report from the National Center...
(Irish Times) – A simple aspirin pill can help reduce death rates from cancer by preventing the spread of the disease, new Irish research suggests. Women...
Older patients were 28% more likely than younger ones to be hospitalized for treatment of complications following a surveillance colonoscopy, study data shows. (Health Leaders)...
(The Washington Post) – As the death toll from the Ebola virus in four West African nations topped 1,000, an official from the World Health...
Researchers have found that the impact of major cardiovascular risk factors combined is higher in women than in men and in blacks than in whites. In...
By Viji Sundaram Special to the NNPA from New America Media Researchers at the school’s Atkins Center for Weight and Health studied 21 sugary drinks popular...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – At the start of 2002, Everett Lee, 57 at the time, considered himself “healthier than all get out.”...
MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health authorities have eased safety restrictions on an experimental drug to treat Ebola, a move that...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thinking about getting inked? Check the bottle first. The Food and Drug Administration is warning tattoo parlors, their...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization on Friday declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public...
(Irish Times) – Screening for prostate cancer could reduce deaths from the disease by about a fifth, according to a major European study published today...
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, Associated Press It’s long been known that faulty BRCA genes greatly raise the risk for breast cancer. Now scientists say a more...
(USA Today) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued its highest-level alert for a response to the Ebola crisis in West...
(AllAfrica.com) Abuja, Lagos — It was a solemn atmosphere in Abuja Wednesday as the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, and his Information counterpart, Labaran Maku,...
(Daily Mail) – Healthy people should be encouraged to take a daily dose of aspirin to ward off cancer, according to the leader of a new...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services removed data about many serious hospital errors from public access earlier this month, preventing patients from thoroughly researching the...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer Two American aid workers infected with Ebola are getting an experimental drug so novel it has never been tested for...
(Bloomberg) – A tiny San Diego-based company provided an experimental Ebola treatment for two Americans infected with the deadly virus in Liberia. The biotechnology drug, produced...
CONAKRY (AFP) – The head of the World Health Organisation and presidents of the west African countries suffering the world’s worst-ever Ebola outbreak were due...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he is taking the Ebola outbreak in Africa seriously. He says the United States is taking precautions for...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is moving to cut down on the thousands of foodborne illnesses linked to chicken and...
(The Washington Post) – Don’t for a minute think that the Cheesecake Factory makes the most caloric meal in America. According to the Center for...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Johnson & Johnson is asking surgeons not to use a line of devices for performing hysterectomies and removing growths from the uterus...
