6 Types of Headache and How to Treat Them
Everyone experiences a headache once in a while. Although these headaches are defined as pain in any region of the head, their causes, duration, and severity of pain usually varies according to the type of headache More...
Be Prepared for Surgery and For Recovery
No one wants to have to get surgery, but sometimes, even if you take really good care of yourself, you still need to get it done. A big part of surgery is the recovery process, depending on the type of surgery. More...
Angeles City: Anti-Dengue Task Force credited with decrease in cases
Angeles City, Philippines government has announced a steady decrease in dengue fever cases over the past couple years and much credit is given to a campaign through the Anti-Dengue Task Force. Image/Elionas via More...
Lyme disease: Incidence of diagnosis in a Maryland Medicaid Population
Few studies have examined the epidemiology of Lyme disease through the use of health insurance claims, and all have utilized data from privately insured individuals. Image/CDC A new study by Johns Hopkins University More...
Deceptively Dangerous: Toothache
“It’s just a toothache.” We’ve all heard that so many times before. There are even times when we say these words. But there’s a really good reason that dentists always recommend that you undergo a tooth More...
Mental Health: When Everyday Anxiety Transforms Into a Troubling Disorder
Getting nervous or anxious is quite normal when experiencing new situations like moving overseas alone, transferring to another school, being introduced to strangers and speaking for the first time in public or More...
Australia Listeriosis outbreak linked to cantaloupe: Seven deaths reported
In an update on the Listeriosis outbreak in Australia linked to the consumption of rockmelons (cantaloupe) from a single grower, health officials report that since mid-January 2018, 20 outbreak cases (19 confirmed More...
Understanding Birth-Related Injuries
Many types of injuries can occur at birth, ranging from the mild to the more severe. Some of these injuries may be permanent or life-threatening, which can make pregnant mothers feel anxious about what will happen More...
Johnson & Johnson Under Fire Again for Defective Hernia Mesh Product
Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary Ethicon is under fire once again for its defective hernia mesh product Physiomesh. A man from Illinois has filed a lawsuit against the company after he experienced serious More...
Texas Gov Greg Abbott burns lead to surgery, will miss police officer memorial, RNC
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is scheduled to undergo surgery Tuesday for serious burns sustained late last week while in Wyoming. Abbot has been battling infections and now will miss the memorial service for five fallen More...
Hepatitis C: #1 infectious disease cause of death in Americans
Deaths associated with hepatitis C reached an all-time high of 19,659 in 2014, according to preliminary surveillance data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Image/Video Screen More...
Judge Ernesto Scorsone rules against Gov Matt Bevin, Kentucky lawsuit to close ‘filthy’ abortion clinic
A Kentucky judge has ruled that closing an abortion facility that state inspectors described as “filthy” is “against the public interest.” The lawsuit came from Gov. Matt Bevin’s office after the More...
New Hampshire releases ‘Tickborne Disease Prevention Plan’
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Division of Public Health Services (DPHS) has released a Tickborne Disease Prevention Plan that provides detailed information about the tickborne More...
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and the CJD Foundation on Tampa talk radio
This Sunday, Mar. 8 at 5 pm ET on the Tampa talk radio program, Outbreak News This Week Radio Show, host and Editor of the website, Outbreak News Today, Robert Herriman will be looking at the topic of prion disease More...
Egypt H5N1 avian flu cases rise to 20
With the addition of the newest case of human H5N1 avian influenza in a woman from Sohag governorate, this brings the total cases of the lethal zoonotic infection to 20 in Egypt, according to a Masrawy.com report More...
Shigella outbreak strikes 43 in Brooklyn Jewish community in past month
At least 43 cases of shigellosis (primarily Shigella sonnei group D) have been diagnosed among the Observant Jewish community in Borough Park and Williamsburg since Nov. 14, according to the New York City Health More...
HPV transmission via sex toys: One study’s findings
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is by far the most prevalent sexually transmitted infection (STI) reported, new or new and existing combined, HPV accounts for approximately 79 million of the total STIs in the United More...
Norovirus: Enforcing food safety practices is key to prevention
PRESS RELEASE Most norovirus outbreaks from contaminated food occur in food service settings, according to a Vital Signs report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Infected food workers are frequently More...
Vancomycin-resistant MRSA superbug found in Brazil
PRESS RELEASE An international research team led by Cesar A. Arias, M.D., Ph.D., at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) has identified a new superbug that caused a bloodstream infection More...
Healthcare-associated infections: 722,000 infections in 2011 in the US according to CDC data
On any given day, approximately one in 25 U.S. patients has at least one infection contracted during the course of their hospital care, adding up to about 722,000 infections in 2011, according to new data from the More...
