Several people have contracted Valley fever following an outdoor music festival near Bakersfield, California, according to a statement from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). Valley fever (coccidioidomycosis) is a lung infection caused by breathing in a soil-borne fungus found in California and some parts of the southwestern U.S. So far, five patients who...
Sick days have taken on a whole new meaning. As Generation Z employees enter the workforce, paid sick days — allotted by a majority of companies — are being used more than ever. Approximately 30% of employees took sick leave in the first 10 months of 2023 — up 42% from 2019, according to the...
Caffeine and sleep may seem like polar opposites — but there may be a benefit to combining them. The “napuccino” has become a popular method to optimize sleep and wake up with more energy by drinking a caffeinated beverage before lying down for a nap. In a recent episode of the podcast “The Diary of...
High rates of false positive test results may be keeping women from sticking to recommended mammogram screenings for breast cancer, a new study has found. Researchers from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center in Sacramento, California, reviewed more than 3.5 million screening mammograms performed among more than one million women between 2005 and 2017. Women who...
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“Real Housewives of Orange County” star Vicki Gunvalson, 62, is sharing her recent health scare after she was hospitalized with sepsis, a potentially deadly disease that results from the body’s response to an infection. “This entire health scare came unannounced — with no warning,” Gunvalson told Fox News Digital. As Sepsis Awareness Month kicks off...
Up to 5% of people who have surgery can develop an infection — which can prolong healing and lead to dangerous complications, studies have shown. Additionally, chronic wounds affect around 6.5 million patients in the U.S. Some bacteria can’t be seen with the human eye, which means they may be missed by physicians when cleaning...
A rare, potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease has sparked concern in the Northeastern U.S. Last week, a man from Hampstead, New Hampshire, died after testing positive for Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE). The man “was hospitalized due to severe central nervous system disease, and has passed away due to [the] illness,” according to a statement from the...
When his infant son was diagnosed with a rare disease, a Canadian father was dismayed to discover there was no treatment or cure. So he set out to make one himself. Terry Pirovolakis, an IT director in Toronto, Ontario, welcomed his third son in Dec. 2017. It was a “normal, healthy birth,” he told Fox...
Predicting a woman’s future heart disease risk could be as simple as administering a single blood test to screen for three risk factors. That’s according to research published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Saturday — research that was also presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress this weekend. The study,...
