Four poultry workers in Colorado have been diagnosed with bird flu, health officials confirmed Sunday. The new cases bring the U.S. total to nine since the first human case of the current outbreak was detected in 2022, also in a Colorado poultry worker. Eight of the nine were reported this year. Their illnesses were relatively...
A rare health condition could be causing some people to eat while they’re sound asleep. Sleep-related eating disorder (SRED) is an abnormal behavior called parasomnia that occurs during sleep. The condition causes a person to eat — and in some cases even prepare food — while asleep, according to experts. GOING TO BED AFTER THIS...
Patients with stiff person syndrome are one step closer to having access to a new treatment. Kyverna Therapeutics’ new drug, KYV-101, has been designated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT), the company announced on Monday. A drug is eligible for RMAT designation if it is “intended to...
Strokes are the fifth leading cause of death in the United States and a leading cause of disability, according to the American Stroke Association. “Stroke is injury to the brain from impairment of blood flow,” Dr. Sandeep Kumar, Department of Neurology, Stroke Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, told Fox News Digital...
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The morning after former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday afternoon, Dr. Marc Siegel spoke to Fox News about the “miraculous” outcome. Appearing on “America Reports,” the Fox News medical contributor and clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center expressed his admiration for Trump’s...
A chemotherapy drug could cause “significant” hearing loss among cancer survivors, according to a study from the University of South Florida and Indiana University. Researchers tracked 100 testicular cancer survivors who received a chemo drug called cisplatin for an average of 14 years, as a press release from USF noted. Among the participants, who averaged...
Hundreds of patients who visited hospitals in Portland, Oregon, may have been exposed to potentially life-threatening diseases such as hepatitis B and C, as well as HIV, as an anesthesiologist may not have followed the proper procedures while administering anesthetic drugs, health officials say. Providence and Legacy Health announced in separate statements that more than...
As many as 40% of cancer cases — and up to half of cancer-related deaths — could have been prevented. That’s according to a new study from the American Cancer Society (ACS), which measured the impact of modifiable risk factors for 30 types of cancers among adults over age 30. Some of those factors were...
Several people have tested positive for bird flu in the U.S., raising questions about the availability of tests in the event of a potential outbreak. As of July 11, the H5N1 virus has affected more than 99 million poultry (in all 50 states), more than 9,500 wild birds (in 48 states) and more than 145...
