Travel OK to high-elevation cities in Zika countries
Friday, 18 March 2016, 16:38
Last update: about 11 years ago
The U.S. government revised its Zika travel warnings Friday, saying it's OK for pregnant women to travel to Mexico City and other places at high elevation in outbreak regions. The kind of...
1st evidence that Zika may cause temporary paralysis
Thursday, 17 March 2016, 16:38
Last update: about 11 years ago
Scientists may have the first evidence that Zika can cause temporary paralysis, according to a new study of patients who developed the rare condition during an outbreak of the virus in Tahiti two...
Study backs kidney transplant method for hardest-to-match
Wednesday, 16 March 2016, 16:28
Last update: about 11 years ago
Nearly 1 in 3 patients who needs a kidney transplant is especially hard to match, and new research suggests a painstaking treatment to help those patients tolerate an incompatible organ is worth...
Babies' eye damage and Zika? Brazil study suggests a link
Saturday, 12 March 2016, 16:18
Last update: about 11 years ago
The Zika virus might cause eye damage in small-headed infants born to women infected during pregnancy, a small study in Brazil suggests. The study lacks hard proof of any link with Zika and...
Model aims to tell researchers how infection passes placenta
Friday, 11 March 2016, 16:17
Last update: about 11 years ago
Researchers have created a cellular model of the human placenta to help uncover how infections, from toxoplasmosis to the Zika virus, may pass from a mother to her unborn child. The placenta...
Peanuts for babies? Studies back allergy-preventing strategy
Friday, 11 March 2016, 16:16
Last update: about 11 years ago
Two new studies bolster evidence that feeding babies peanuts or other allergy-inducing foods is more likely to protect them than to cause problems. One study, a follow-up to landmark research...
Studies add more evidence of Zika's risk to pregnant women
Wednesday, 9 March 2016, 16:16
Last update: about 11 years ago
The Zika virus may be linked to a wider variety of "grave outcomes" for developing babies than previously reported - threats that can come at any stage of pregnancy, researchers reported...
UN: Women in Zika countries should breastfeed their babies
Tuesday, 8 March 2016, 16:15
Last update: about 11 years ago
The World Health Organization says women in countries hit by the Zika virus should breastfeed their babies and there is no proof the disease can spread to their infants that way. Zika has been...