Use new meningitis vaccines only for outbreaks
Thursday, 12 March 2015, 15:55
Last update: about 10 years ago
A U.S. panel on Thursday recommended that two new meningitis vaccines only be used for rare outbreaks, resisting tearful pleas to give it routinely to teens and college students. The vaccines...
Caribbean blues: Mosquito virus is sickening more travelers
Wednesday, 11 March 2015, 15:54
Last update: about 10 years ago
Thousands of travelers to the Caribbean and nearby regions are coming home with an unwanted souvenir: a mosquito-borne virus that recently settled there. The virus, called chikungunya...
ALIVE2015: cycling challenge for cancer goes for the gold ribbon
Monday, 9 March 2015, 09:33
Last update: about 10 years ago
Following the success of the previous two cycling challenges which altogether raised over €135,000 for breast cancer research at the University of Malta, ALIVE Charity Foundation will be taking...
What to know about new research on babies, peanut allergies
Sunday, 8 March 2015, 16:39
Last update: about 10 years ago
Children at high risk of developing peanut allergies are far less likely to do so if they are given peanut-containing foods before they turn 1, finds a major study that is expected to quickly change...
Twists, turns, eventually lead to promising Ebola vaccine
Saturday, 7 March 2015, 16:38
Last update: about 10 years ago
It took 16 years of twists and turns. Over and over, Dr. Nancy Sullivan thought she was close to an Ebola vaccine, only to see the next experiment fail. "A case of resuscitation more than once,"...
UHM clarifies issue on health sector directives
Saturday, 7 March 2015, 16:27
Last update: about 10 years ago
The UHM today issued a clarification after “unfounded” claims appeared in certain sections of the media concerning the union’s directives in the health sector. The UHM said that...
Study ties more deaths, types of disease, to smoking
Friday, 6 March 2015, 16:37
Last update: about 10 years ago
Breast cancer, prostate cancer, and even routine infections. A new report ties these and other maladies to smoking and says an additional 60,000 to 120,000 deaths each year in the United States are...
Panel: Base quarantines, other outbreak decisions on science
Thursday, 5 March 2015, 16:36
Last update: about 10 years ago
Attempts to quarantine health workers returning to the U.S. from Ebola-stricken West Africa were a mistake, the president's bioethics advisers said Thursday. The U.S. has a moral responsibility,...
Frequent saunas may boost survival, Finnish study suggests
Wednesday, 4 March 2015, 16:35
Last update: about 10 years ago
Frequent sauna baths may help you live longer, a study of Finnish men suggests. It would be welcome news if proven true - in Finland where hot, dry saunas are commonplace, and for Americans shivering...