Health

Following last week’s air traffic control crisis, health officials are now reporting a potential measles outbreak at New Jersey’s Newark Airport.Travelers were warned of possible measles exposure after a case was confirmed in an individual who traveled through the airport on May 12.MEASLES SCARE AT MAJOR AIRPORT: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT POTENTIAL EXPOSUREThe New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) released a notice on Thursday addressing the situation, detailing that the […]

When a Tennessee mother of five received her college degree on May 9, she couldn’t see her family cheering in the audience – because she is completely blind.Even so, as Amanda Juetten, 47, crossed the stage to accept her degree – magna cum laude – from Tennessee Tech University, she was more certain than ever about her path forward."I’m totally blind," Juetten told Fox News Digital in an interview. "So […]

A common ingredient in some foods and drinks has been linked to an increased risk of blood cancers.Taurine — a non-essential amino acid that also occurs naturally in the bone marrow, brain, heart and muscles — was found to promote the growth of leukemia cells, according to a study by Wilmot Cancer Institute investigators at the University of Rochester in New York.The compound is also found in meats, fish and […]

The Trump administration is backing away from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations to vaccinate children and pregnant women against COVID-19, according to a new report.The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is planning to pull federal recommendations that these groups get the COVID vaccine as a routine measure, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.The CDC currently recommends that […]

An invasive species spreading across America has created a "medically important" and "life-threatening" threat, according to experts.Originally found in places like China and Korea, the Asian needle ant was first introduced to America in the 1930s, but was overlooked for nearly a century, according to Dan Suiter, a Georgia-based entomologist."It never really garnered a lot of attention," Suiter, a professor of urban entomology at the University of Georgia, told Fox […]

An existing drug for HIV could double as a preventative therapy for Alzheimer’s disease, according to researchers.NRTIs (nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors) are antivirals that are approved to treat HIV infection, but scientists from UVA Health at the University of Virginia found that patients taking them were less likely to develop the common form of dementia.There was a roughly 10% annual reduction in the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in people […]

Public health officials in Washington state are warning residents that a Canadian traveler who was contagious with measles visited several public locations, including the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.The person, whose vaccination status is unknown, traveled through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and visited multiple public locations in Renton, Bellevue, Seattle, Everett and Woodinville between April 30 and May 3, according to a King County news release.Health officials said the Canadian was given the […]

Weight-loss medications and bariatric surgery have both been found effective at helping people shed excess pounds — and now a new study explores their link to obesity-related cancer (ORC) risk.Obesity is a known risk factor for certain types of cancers, and has also been shown to impact cancer survival.Obesity-related cancers include multiple myeloma, meningioma, adenocarcinoma of esophagus; stomach, colorectal, liver or bile duct, gallbladder, pancreas, uterus, ovary, renal-cell kidney, thyroid, […]

Older adults are being warned against receiving the chikungunya vaccine before traveling.The Ixchiq vaccination, developed by Valneva to prevent the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in November 2023 as the first of its kind.The approval applies to anyone aged 18 and older who has a risk of being exposed to the virus.FIRST VACCINE FOR CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS, AN ‘EMERGING GLOBAL HEALTH THREAT,’ GETS FDA […]