Smoking accounts for almost one in three cancer deaths in the United States, and increases the risk cancers of the lung, mouth, larynx (voice box), pharynx (throat), esophagus, kidney, cervix, liver, ...

Greg Pavela, Ph.D.Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham , in collaboration with researchers at Indiana University-Bloomington, have received an R01 grant from the National Institutes...

According to Business Insider , this study is different from the earlier ones, as it has shown a cause-and-effect relationship between social media use and mental health , whereas all the earlier st...

But his wife and other son kept getting an error when they tried to opt out online. "How do we opt out when the #MyHealthRecord website is down and the phones are jammed?" "It's obviously very fru...

Among people who ate less than one and a half servings of fish per week, the observed decrease in the number of heart attacks when they consumed the drug, however, reduce strokes, a study shows. Half ...

Physicians don't unless they have that training.' For years, Haughey said she struggled to understand any upside to allowing people to have guns . Surprisingly little blood, but plenty of blood curdl...

The condition remains a mystery: no pathogen has been found consistently, though almost all patients have reported signs and symptoms consistent with viral illness in the weeks preceding limb weakness...

Finally, the revised guidelines reflect the latest science from the past 10 years, which is that physical activity not only wards off disease but helps individuals to sleep better, feel better and mor...

These indicate that while some countries are probably overusing antibiotics, others may not even have sufficient access to the life-saving drugs . But over the decades, bacteria have learned to f...

United Nations peacekeepers in the country have called on armed groups not to hinder medical workers fighting the disease. However, health minister Oly Ilunga said armed rebels were continuing to ...

Once symptoms have developed, rabies is nearly always fatal. Professor Whitworth said the victim "in this tragic case" was bitten just a few weeks ago. Rabies occurs in more than 150 countries and t...

It was the deadliest mass shooting in the US since 17 students and teachers were killed at a Parkland, Florida high school nine months ago. Thousand Oaks is a city of about 130,000 people about 40...

The CDC says the rare salmonella strain was identified in live turkeys, as well as in ground turkey, turkey patties and raw turkey pet food. In its update on the outbreak, first announced in the m...

The report says Feinberg will coordinate the health features in Google Fit, Nest, Google Search, Google Brain, and the company's cloud business. Feinberg has been at Geisinger, a health system in Pe...

The influenza vaccine is safe and recommended for anyone over the age of 6 months. For example, during 2016-2017 , flu vaccinations prevented an estimated 5.3 million influenza illnesses, 2.6 mil...

Flu vaccinations are completely covered by insurance and many major chains are incentivizing customers to stop in and receive the vaccine while they shop. Aoki is in favour of people with both strong ...

Often called antimicrobial resistance or AMR , the problem has grown in recent years as bugs resistant to multiple drugs have developed and drugmakers have cut back investment in this field. "Dru...

In this case performance of tends to percentage rate of return for a stock for a given time frame. The average price target of $88.5 calls for a almost 20.1% increase in the stock price . Investi...

The sisters, who were brought to Australia with their mother in October, are joined at the torso and share a liver. Doctors said they were confident the twins were now ready for the operation. About...

For the study, reported in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience , the team chose to investigate three different types of coffee - light roast, dark roast and decaffeinated dark roast. "So phenylinda...

Doctors should also be better at spotting female patients at risk. Over seven years, 5,081 people had their first heart attack and one in three of them were women. Carried out by researchers from Th...

The World Health Organization declared processed red meat to be a carcinogen in 2015, and unprocessed red meat such as steaks and chops to be a probable carcinogen. The health taxes on sausages in ...

In DRC till date, this season, around 300 cases of Ebola have been suspected with 265 confirmed cases of the disease. Meanwhile, Uganda will soon begin vaccinating frontline health workers against E...

Libby noted that often the only way the Legislature was able to extract information from LePage's administration was to use the Government Oversight Committee's subpoena powers to compel witnesses to ...

Trump encouraged voters to view the first nationwide election of his presidency as a referendum on his leadership, pointing proudly to the surging economy at recent rallies. The guest list included ma...

Drug overdose deaths hit the highest level ever recorded in the United States previous year, with an estimated 200 people dying per day, according to a report by the U.S. Sen. An FDA advisory comm...

What's more, every additional hour slept after the recommended eight-hour sleep was associated with a 20 percent increase in risk. Lead scientist Dr Rebecca Richmond , of the University of Brist...

The study focused on 33 developed countries in Europe, North America and Australasia, as they had the most reliable data. The most severe form of skin cancer, melanoma, is causing more than 9,000 de...

In the United Kingdom, both were achieved by careful and considered government intervention", he said. "Reductions to services such as smoking cessation and sexual health in some areas are directly co...

Researchers also found some evidence of tumours in the brain and adrenal glands of exposed male rats. During the tests, animals were housed in chambers specially designed for the studies and RFR expos...

Northern Trust Corp owned 1.10% of Fitbit worth $15,343,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. GWM Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Fitbit during the 3rd quarter valued at about $144,000...

Side effects from these treatments can range from hair loss, nerve damage and memory problems years after treatment. There are signs and symptoms of breast cancer . "He [my doctor] said, "you'll be f...

On the website, Magaya claimed that they had conducted some clinical trials and concluded that Aguma could cure the diseases. PROPHET Walter Magaya and his workers flashed through the toilet syste...

According to officials, the new patients were exposed to a man who got the illness overseas. Officials say the people infected in the two new cases may have exposed others to the disease while they ...

Could the appendix be the cause of Parkinson's? The research "further supports the notion that [Parkinson's] starts in the gut", Dr. Ted Dawson, a professor of neurodegenerative diseases at Johns ...