![]() Summer camps are requiring children get vaccinated amid measles fears
Each summer, as Lauren Rutkowski and her husband Joel await the arrival of energized, sun-kissed children for their seven-week camp, the couple surveys the canoes and paddleboards, the arts and crafts, the food menus -- and every camper's vaccination records.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Richer countries have less faith in vaccines, survey finds
People in high-income countries have the lowest confidence in vaccines, with about 20% of those in Europe either disagreeing or being unsure of whether vaccines are safe, according to a new global survey.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Traveling to Europe? Make sure your measles vaccination is up to date
Measles is not the souvenir you want to bring back from your once-in-a-lifetime trip to Europe this summer, but there's an increasing likelihood that could happen if your vaccinations are not up to date.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() New York ends religious exemptions for vaccines
New York is requiring all schoolchildren to be vaccinated, even if parents have religious objections.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Pharmacy tests turn up another cancer-causing compound in heart drugs
Tests by an online pharmacy turned up another cancer-causing compound in heart medications, and these drugs haven't been recalled.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() India to overtake China as the world's most populous country: UN
India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous country in less than a decade, according to a new United Nations report.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Suicide rates among America's young people continue to soar, study shows
Suicide rates among young people have continued to soar in recent years -- so much so that the rate among 15- to 24-year-olds climbed in 2017 to its highest point since 2000, new research has found.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Uganda tightens border, bans gatherings as second Ebola death confirmed
Ugandan authorities beefed up border controls and banned public gatherings in the region affected by Ebola Thursday, confirming a second death after the disease was first detected in the country this week.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() This teen's vape exploded, shattering his jaw
The 17-year-old traveled 250 miles with a bloody mouth, broken teeth and a hole in his jaw, trekking from a small town in Nevada to a pediatric hospital in Utah with his mother. There, doctors rushed him into surgery, working to reconstruct and repair shattered bone.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Diabetes, cancer and death: These are the effects of polluted air
On Wednesday, the US Environmental Protection Agency under President Trump finalized its rollback of President Obama's signature climate policy -- the Clean Power Plan, which aimed to reduce coal-fired power plant emissions. The administration will replace the plan with the Affordable Clean Energy ... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() More pregnant women in the US are using pot, study finds
More moms-to-be in the United States are using marijuana, especially in their first trimester, according to a study published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Planned Parenthood is building a clinic in Alabama in the face of a near-total ban on abortions
Planned Parenthood has broken ground on a new state-of-the-art woman's clinic in Alabama despite a looming near-total ban on abortions.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Teen survives 10-inch knife lodged in face: 'It could have been the end of me'
When Dr. Koji Ebersole laid eyes on the boy whose face was impaled on a 10-inch knife, the neurosurgeon thought, "here we go again."
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Facebook debuts US blood donation tool, its latest public health move
Facebook is no longer just a place to connect with former high school buddies; the social media giant now wants to make it easier for you to connect with blood banks, too.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Your Facebook profile can indicate if you have a medical condition, a study finds
Your social media could reveal a lot more about you than you think.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Injuries from cosmetics send 4,300 children to ERs every year
Cosmetic products such as perfume, nail polish and shampoo help us feel and look good. But in the wrong hands -- especially those of the very young -- these products can be harmful, or even deadly. More than 64,000 kids younger than 5 years old had a cosmetic-related injury between 2002 and 2016, a... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Frozen spinach recalled for possible listeria contamination
Sprouts Farmers Market has recalled some frozen spinach because of possible contamination with listeria, the company announced.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Obesity rates falling among low-income preschoolers: 'It gives us hope'
While childhood obesity remains a serious problem in the United States, an "encouraging" new study finds that obesity rates among low-income preschoolers have declined.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() After surgery, how patients fare may depend on how their doctor behaves, study says
Whether patients have problems after surgery could depend on their surgeons' behavior, a new study suggests.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Child death toll from brain disease crosses 100 in India as parents protest
Scores of parents and locals gathered outside a hospital in the eastern Indian state of Bihar on Tuesday to protest the death of more than 100 children over the past three weeks.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Flesh-eating bacteria in New Jersey reveal one possible effect of climate change, study says
Climate change may lead to unlikely illnesses in unexpected places, new research suggests: In the past two years, five cases of Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacterial infection spread by handling or eating contaminated seafood, have been tied to Delaware Bay, where water temperatures have been... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Heart disease can have long-term impact on the mind, study says
Patients who receive a diagnosis of coronary heart disease are at higher risk for cognitive decline later on, a new study shows.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() The top 10 questions about surrogacy for same-sex couples, answered
For heterosexual couples who want to have children, surrogacy is often one of the last options they consider, following time-consuming and emotionally and physically exhausting consultations with a fertility specialist. But for gay couples who want kids, surrogacy is one of only two options (the ot... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() FDA issues safety alert over fecal transplants after patient's death
The US Food and Drug Administration issued a safety alert on Thursday over the use of fecal transplants after one recipient died.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() 300 inmates in Texas' Harris County jail are quarantined over a mumps outbreak
A mumps outbreak at the Harris County jail in Houston has forced staff to isolate 14 symptomatic people and quarantine a few hundred other inmates, officials said Thursday.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Epilepsy drugs linked to higher risk of birth defects, study says
Side effects of prescription drugs are of particular concern during pregnancy.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() You could be swallowing a credit card's weight in plastic every week
Worldwide, people ingest an average of 5 grams of plastic every week, the equivalent of a credit card, a new study suggests.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() Sleeping with lights on and weight gain in women linked in new study
Keeping a lot of light on while you snooze -- such as from a television or bright nightlight -- has been linked with an increased risk of weight gain and obesity.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() A Texas mom says she was kicked out of a city pool for breastfeeding her baby
A group of moms held a "nurse-in" at a Texas swimming pool to support a woman who says she was kicked out for breastfeeding her baby.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
![]() For many doctors breaking bad news, 'death' is a four-letter word
It's never easy to tell a patient about a terminal illness, but a longtime doctor whose own diagnosis was botched says physicians must do better.
... More Story with Video.... |
|
|
