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Everest Study Finds High Altitude Affects Blood Pressure
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2014 (HealthDay News) — In a new study done from the heights of Mount Everest, Italian researchers found that your blood pressure steadily increases if you ascend to great heights....
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Obesity Fueling Rise in Diabetes Rates, Study Finds
TUESDAY, Sept. 2, 2014 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. obesity epidemic is a driving force behind the rising rates of type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. Researchers looked at data from five...
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Peers Best at Convincing High-Risk Individuals to Get HIV Test: Study
FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) — The best way to get people at high risk for HIV tested for the AIDS-causing virus is to have other high-risk people do the convincing, a new study suggests....
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Passengers From Ebola-Affected Countries Must Land at Designated U.S. Airports
TUESDAY, Oct. 21, 2014 (HealthDay News) — The United States is now mandating that all airline passengers arriving from Ebola-affected nations of West Africa land at one of five airports equipped to...
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Ebola Nurse Amber Vinson Now ‘Free’ of Virus, Family Says
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Amber Vinson, one of two nurses battling Ebola after contracting it from a patient at a Dallas hospital, is now free of the virus, according to a statement...
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Common Blood Pressure Drug May Lower Risk For Lou Gehrig’s Disease: Study
MONDAY, Nov. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Medications commonly used to lower blood pressure might also lower the risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s...
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Drug Regimen Cures Hepatitis C in Most Liver Transplant Patients in Study
FRIDAY, Nov. 14, 2014 (HealthDay News) — A new drug regimen is producing high cure rates in small groups of liver transplant patients with hepatitis C, researchers report. The study’s results are a...
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The Salk Polio Vaccine: A Medical Miracle Turns 60
MONDAY, Dec. 1, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Most American parents today can’t fathom the horror that summers brought during the first half of the 20th century. Summer meant polio season, and whole...
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Is HIV Becoming Less Contagious?
MONDAY, Dec. 1, 2014 (HealthDay News) — New research in Africa suggests that the AIDS virus is getting smarter about evading the immune system while evolving into a less contagious and less lethal...
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Kidney Patients Living Longer on Dialysis, Study Shows
FRIDAY, March 27, 2015 (HealthDay News) — New statistics suggest that kidney patients on dialysis are surviving longer. “Declining mortality rates are the clearest evidence of improving outcomes in...
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Chipotle Norovirus Illness Outbreak
Food Poisoning What is a Norovirus? Norovirus is a very contagious virus also known as stomach flu or food poison. You can get norovirus from an infected person, contaminated food or water, or by...
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