Day January 15, 2017

Retroviruses are a special group of viruses including some which are dangerous, such as HIV, while others are believed to be harmless. The viruses studied by Johan Jakobsson and his colleagues in Lund are called endogenous retroviruses (ERV) as they…

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s ministry for agriculture said on Sunday it had detected bird flu in two locations, one affecting wild birds and another hitting domestic birds, but it did not say whether it was a strain that has spread…

We live in a world at constant risk of public health emergencies. In our increasingly interconnected world, public health emergencies can affect anyone, anywhere. The recent outbreaks of Zika, Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and Yellow Fever have reminded us that…

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Veronica Sikka, M.D., Ph.D, assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, VCU School of Medicine, works in the emergency department at VCU Medical Center.

(HealthDay)—Halfway through this year’s rather mild flu season, disease activity is still increasing, albeit slowly, a U.S. health official said Friday.

Elizabeth Mack said a variety of factors, ranging from aging infrastructure to climate change to population decline in urban areas, are making residents’ ability to afford water and wastewater services a burgeoning crisis. Published online Jan. 11 in the journal…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Republican Senator Rand Paul said on Sunday that the Obamacare replacement bill he plans to unveil would get rid of some of the mandates for health insurance coverage with the aim of bringing down the cost…

The pushback in Aurora suggests Republicans may be in for a world of political pain as they push forward with repeal. It recalls a few other popular uprisings against Washington, all of them triggered by congressional efforts to make big…

Senior doctors say they are concerned about the number of cancer patients having their operations cancelled amid “tremendous pressure” facing the NHS in England this winter. Ian Eardley, from the Royal College of Surgeons, said a shortage of beds was…

While more research and larger studies are needed to confirm the mechanism, the researchers suggest that these findings could eventually lead to new ways to target and treat stress-related cardiovascular risk. Smoking, high blood pressure and diabetes are well-known risk…

One way to help answer that question is to study the brains of very young infants and compare them to adult brains. However, scanning the brains of awake babies in an MRI machine has proven difficult. Now, neuroscientists at MIT…

By Suzanne Barlyn NEW YORK (Reuters) – Twice a day, Scott Ozawa’s Bluetooth-enabled toothbrush tells his dental insurer if he brushed for a full two minutes. In return, the 41-year-old software engineer gets free brush heads and the employer which…

FRANKFURT/DUBAI (Reuters) – A flight from Oman to Germany operated by Lufthansa’s budget unit Eurowings will head home after getting the all clear by authorities in Kuwait where it made an emergency landing over a bomb scare, spokespeople for the…

This week, we’ve got an argument for transforming health care into “Right Care” as well as some troubling developments for vaccine proponents south of the border. We also look down the road, to a future where skin cells could become sperm,…

Dan Cozine’s service left him haunted by horrible memories. He struggled to return to his normal life. He was withdrawn at work. He was distracted and angry at home. His wife urged him to get help, so he found a…

Seaweed is plentiful and grows rapidly, and most of it is safe to eat. People have been harvesting seaweed for thousands of years, but now it’s become so popular, you can even take a class. Joy Lanzendorfer for NPR hide…

The grueling, intense pain that comes along with labor is something pregnant women are warned about and told to prepare for and fear. It’s how childbirth is almost always portrayed in movies and a part of most women’s birth stories.…

Picture it: you’re out for a walk during the fall and you’re wearing a down jacket while your male companion is in a vest. Or you’re in the office shivering under a blanket and wishing you had a space heater…

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 91 Americans die from opioid overdoses every day. In many of these cases, the source of addiction began with a doctor’s prescription pad. A new documentary called “Dr. Feelgood: Dealer…

The family of a woman who fought a long battle against Multiple Sclerosis have released a harrowing set of images in the hope they will persuade politicians that people should have the “right to die”. Flora Lorimer met her future…

Lower blood levels of a biomarker called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) have been associated with depression in multiple studies, mainly in non-pregnant adults. Now, in a study published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, research from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical…

The volume of discarded electronics in East and Southeast Asia jumped almost two-thirds between 2010 and 2015, and e-waste generation is growing fast in both total volume and per capita measures, new UN research shows. Driven by rising incomes and…

Endodontic files, burs, and occasionally, other dental instruments tend to break off during surgical procedures because of defective manufacturing, stress, fatigue, rust, or poor handling [11]. The diameter, length, and position of the fragment within the root canal can all…

(Reuters) – The National Mall in Washington D.C. could become a sea of bright pink the day after Donald Trump is inaugurated as U.S. president if the vision of a pair of Los Angeles women is realized. For the last…

US authorities have lifted an embargo on French beef imports after 19 years, the French agriculture ministry said Friday. France is the fourth EU country to have its beef re-admitted to  the US market after a 1998 ban imposed because…

Scientists at the University of Sydney have demonstrated the ability to “see” the future of quantum systems, and used that knowledge to preempt their demise, in a major achievement that could help bring the strange and powerful world of quantum…

Hindsight is a beautiful thing, so what tips would you give to your 15-year-old self?

But by the time you have finished reading this article, it’s likely that somebody in the United States will have died of an opioid overdose. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 500 people, many of…

By following 60 people through their everyday lives, Stanford researchers found that smart watches and other personal biosensor devices can help flag when people have colds and even signal the onset of complex conditions like Lyme disease and diabetes. “We…

By Rollo Ross LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Editors Note: Attention to language that may be offensive to some readers in paragraph 3   The National Mall in Washington could become a sea of bright pink the day after Donald Trump…

The researchers used optogenetics, a means of engineering specific neurons to fire upon light stimulation, to isolate and selectively activate each set of neurons. When the laser is off, the animals behave normally. But turn the laser on, and the…

Today in the journal Cancer Cell, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Fellow Jason Sheltzer, Ph.D., and colleagues at CSHL and MIT report surprising results of experiments intended to explore the consequences of having too many or too few chromosomes, a…

Nearly 30 million adults in the United Sates are living with chronic kidney disease, and iron deficiency exists in more than half of these patients. Unfortunately, most affected patients are not receiving treatment to address their dangerously low levels of…

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in 2014 for the discovery of place cells and grid cells — neurons in a part of the brain called the hippocampal formation that tell us where we are in relation…

By Lacey Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. civil rights activists vowed on Saturday to defend hard-fought gains in voting rights and criminal justice during the presidency of Donald Trump, kicking off a week of protests ahead of the Republican’s inauguration.…

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Young children who receive cognitive behavior therapy to help them cope with night terrors may have fewer behavior problems tied to poor sleep than kids who receive therapy that doesn’t include advice on how…

The billion-dollar meditation and mindfulness industry believes it has what many of us are looking for: promises of focused thinking, less stress, increased compassion and creativity abound.  It’s promises like these that make it a massively popular industry, embraced everywhere…

Just months after a launch pad explosion thwarted its last attempt, SpaceX has successfully launched an unmanned rocket into orbit. The launch, which unfolded Saturday at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base, marked a crucial — and expensive — test for…

We think we know what the signs of breast cancer are, until it comes to checking our own breasts – then we’re not so sure. Is that a lump I can feel? Should I be worried about the dimpled skin…