A fatal outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease has killed two individuals and infected at least 58 others in New York City’s Harlem region. The New York City Department of Health has asked individuals who live or work in Harlem to reach out to a doctor if they experience flu-like symptoms such as cough, fever, chills, aches,…
Justin Timberlake has announced that he was battling Lyme disease during his recently concluded Forget Tomorrow world tour, calling the illness “relentlessly debilitating, both mentally and physically.” In a heartfelt Instagram post shared on Thursday, the former NSYNC star said he considered canceling the tour altogether after being diagnosed, but chose to power through for…
The degenerative brain disease that has besieged the National Football League for two decades with a billion-dollar lawsuit, congressional hearings, an A-list movie and an unrelenting cortege of ex-players’ obituaries has now intruded on America’s favorite sport in the most violent manner yet. The Las Vegas casino worker who killed four people in a New…
NEW DELHI: Commonly prescribed medications for anxiety, depression and sleep disorders may be associated with a higher risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive and fatal neurological disorder, according to a new study recently published in JAMA Neurology.The study examined the use of anxiolytics (used to relieve anxiety), hypnotics and sedatives (used to…
Odisha Diarrhoea Disease: ओडिशा के जाजपुर में डायरिया के कारण मरने वालों की संख्या शनिवार (14 जून) को बढ़कर पांच हो गई और 1,500 अन्य लोग जल जनित बीमारी से संक्रमित हैं. अधिकारियों ने यह जानकारी दी. उन्होंने बताया कि केंद्र ने जिले में जमीनी स्थिति का अध्ययन करने के लिए तीन अलग-अलग विशेषज्ञ दल…
DUBLIN: A few drops of saliva can now reveal what used to require a scalpel, a syringe or a scan. Scientists have developed ways to analyse spit for the tiniest traces of illness – from mouth cancer to diabetes, and even brain diseases like Alzheimer’s.Unlike blood tests or biopsies, saliva is easy to collect, painless…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, has said that tackling a chronic disease “epidemic” would be a cornerstone of his Make America Healthy Again agenda, often invoking alarming statistics as an urgent reason for reforming public health in this country. On Friday, President Trump released a proposed budget that called for cutting the…
Authorities across Central Europe are scrambling to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that has led to the culling of thousands of animals and prompted border closures between Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria.The outbreak was first detected in early March on a cattle farm in northwestern Hungary. Within weeks, cases were confirmed on three farms in…
The sun was bursting through the sandstone arch of Window Rock in northeastern Arizona, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in bluejeans, was finally in his element: on a hike. It was the last day of his multistate Make American Healthy Again tour, designed to highlight various aspects of Mr. Kennedy’s plan to fight…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spoken of an “existential threat” that he said can destroy the nation. “We have the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world,” Mr. Kennedy said at a hearing in January before the Senate confirmed him as the secretary of Health and Human Services. And on Monday he…