Health

News 06/24/2019

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined thousands bending, stretching, twisting, and holding yoga postures on Friday, in Ranchi to celebrate International Yoga Day on June 21. Lift your arms and stretch like Modi, who was present ...

News 06/03/2019

The Food and Drug Administration's first broad testing of food for a worrisome class of nonstick, stain-resistant industrial compounds found substantial levels in some grocery store meats and seafood and in off-the-shelf chocolate cake, according ...

News 05/30/2019

Over 1,200 people have died in the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo). According to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Border, this is the worst ever reported ...

News 05/20/2019

880 cases reported this year; federal health officials continue pushing parents to vaccinate children

News 05/20/2019

Sarah Day is a school nurse with "street cred" when it comes to the polarizing issue of vaccines on an idyllic island in Washington state known for its rural beauty, counterculture lifestyle and low immunization ...

News 04/25/2019

The pilot phase aims to vaccinate 360,000 children per year in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi

News 04/22/2019

WHO sees a huge increase in measles cases, The NIH blames it on a decline in the number of people being vaccinated

News 04/16/2019

Fears grow on the continent about the spread of measles and other infectious diseases

News 04/08/2019

Zapping the brains of people over 60 with a mild electrical current improved a form of memory enough that they performed like people in their 20s, a new study found.Someday, people might visit clinics to ...

News 04/05/2019

387 cases reported as of March; last year saw 372 cases

News 04/02/2019

One morning last fall, 4-year-old Joey Wilcox woke up with the left side of his face drooping.It was the first sign of an unfolding nightmare.Three days later, Joey was in a hospital intensive care unit, ...

News 03/29/2019

People living with HIV now can save another's life if they are healthy enough to donate a kidney

News 03/15/2019

The latest U.S. research on eggs won't go over easy for those who can't eat breakfast without them. Adults who ate about 1 ½ eggs daily had a slightly higher risk of heart disease than those ...

Culture 02/26/2019

Impregnated with Daoism and Buddhism, traditional Chinese medicine sees the human being as a system that lives at the rhythm of the universe that surrounds it. Nourished by the five climates of the sky and ...

News 02/11/2019

The chemical compounds are all around you. They're on many fabrics, rugs and carpets, cooking pots and pans, outdoor gear, shampoo, shaving cream, makeup and even dental floss. Increasing numbers of states have found them ...

News 02/08/2019

Measles may be gaining a foothold in the US, where it was officially eradicated in 2000

News 02/02/2019

New WHO cancer pain control guidelines aimed at millions afflicted with this illness

News 01/18/2019

U.S.-based Carter Center reports just 28 cases worldwide last year, adding there were millions of cases in the 1980s

News 01/03/2019

Smartphones have been blamed for contributing to depression and suicidal behavior in susceptible teens. But what if they could identify kids at risk? Researchers are trying to develop phone apps to detect impending mental health ...

Nutrition 03/23/2019

Kitchen staff arrive at the former Fall Creek Valley Care Center at 4:30 to 5 a.m. Monday through Friday to make nutritious meals for close to 400 seniors in Eau Claire and Chippewa counties.Meals might ...

Nutrition 03/11/2019

We love the earthy flavor of uncooked kale, but the texture of raw kale can be a little tough.Many recipes call for tossing it with dressing and letting it tenderize in the fridge overnight. This ...

Nutrition 03/11/2019

We wanted to pair earthy, hearty mushrooms with equally hearty farro.To start, we used the pasta method (an abundance of water) to boil our farro, which ensured the grains cooked evenly and required only half ...

Nutrition 03/01/2019

A green cuisine effort is expanding in France as scientists warn that meat consumption must be drastically cut to fight climate change and sustain a growing population

Nutrition 02/17/2019

Insects are crawling onto menus at restaurants across the United States.

Nutrition 01/28/2019

Highlighting the fresh flavors of Provencal cuisine, soupe au pistou is a classic French soup composed of seasonal vegetables, creamy white beans and fragrant herbs.Celebrating colorful, early-summer produce, this soup needed to be chock-full of ...

Nutrition 01/22/2019

If you're from the Northeast, or if you haven't been to Chicago, you may dismiss deep-dish pizza out of regional pride. That would be a mistake.Real Chicago-style pizza is certainly thick, but its texture and ...

Nutrition 01/01/2019

Two major studies last year offered some insight into the role carbs play in making us fat, but unfortunately they don't settle the question of how best to lose weight in 2019.There is fierce debate ...

Nutrition 12/10/2018

Making holiday cookies_the rolled, cutout, and glazed butter-cookie variety_is everyone's favorite December activity. Unfortunately, these cookies either look good but taste like cardboard or have buttery, rich flavor but lack visual appeal.We wanted a simple ...

Nutrition 11/21/2018

Avoid all romaine lettuce, but don't worry about your turkey.With two food poisoning outbreaks making headlines before Thanksgiving, the messages about what's safe to eat can be hard to keep straight. Here's what you should ...

Nutrition 11/08/2018

Heating and glazing a cured ham seems effortless, but many recipes yield leathery meat in an overly sweet glaze. We wanted to guarantee moist meat in a nuanced glaze. Bone-in hams, labeled “with natural juices,” have ...

Nutrition 10/30/2018

Pizza bagels, chewing gum and bottled water want to play a starring new role in our diets: Foods that can be called healthy. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is revamping its definition of healthy to ...

Nutrition 10/29/2018

Most of the time, I end up putting my energy into the main course. You, too, right? The side dishes then have a tiered level of time and effort afforded to each of them, often ...

Nutrition 10/29/2018

For many of us, the menu for Thanksgiving is etched in stone. We eat the same dishes every year because we love every one of them. But what about switching it up a little by ...

Nutrition 10/29/2018

RIO HONDO — Parents have the opportunity to learn basic nutrition facts, how to save money when grocery shopping and healthier eating habits. The one-hour training is part of a six-week program called Expanded Food and ...

Nutrition 10/28/2018

This isn’t your typical pumpkin flavor.Get the idea of hot lattes and sweet cupcakes and muffins out of your head, because Chris Poremba’s Spicy Pumpkin Sauce over Butternut Squash Noodles isn’t like any pumpkin you’ve ...

Nutrition 10/25/2018

By the time mid-October arrives, ideas of recipes to prepare and enjoy at any given moment have already teased my taste buds. Suddenly shopping lists change from summer ingredients to the jewels of autumn with ...

Nutrition 10/24/2018

Easy, fun and flavorful, everyone loves fruity gelatin desserts, right? Why not try this version that’s a bit healthier? These gelatin shots are made by infusing immune boosting herbs in gelatin made with fruit juice. So ...

Nutrition 10/23/2018

When one thinks of staple foods, one is inadvertently drawn to packaged dry goods stored in a pantry like rice, pasta, beans or flour. When considering staple dinners of course, one would gather thoughts that ...

Nutrition 10/23/2018

WHEELERSBURG, Ohio — After 60 years and three generations, the family-owned and-operated Fuhrmann Orchards has grown from a few apple trees to over 200 acres of locally grown produce. "We grow 30 varieties of apples, over ...

News 05/30/2019

Over 1,200 people have died in the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo). According to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Border, this is the worst ever reported ...

Treatment 04/26/2019

This year, during World Immunization Week, the World Health Organization launched the world’s first malaria vaccine. Scientists are also testing a vaccine for HIV, and they are working on vaccines aga

Treatment 04/15/2019

A drug that's used to help control blood sugar in people with diabetes has now been shown to help prevent or slow kidney disease, which causes millions of deaths each year and requires hundreds of ...

Treatment 04/09/2019

Venom from a dangerous spider contains a molecule that stalls the effects a stroke has on the brain, according to Australian biochemists

Treatment 03/25/2019

If the test is approved, doctors will be able to diagnose fibromyalgia instantly and save patients years of suffering

Treatment 03/17/2019

A fast, easy test pregnant women can take at home could protect their health and that of their unborn babies

Treatment 03/14/2019

It says medications often contain 'inactive' ingredients that can cause allergic reactions or gastrointestinal reactions in some people

Treatment 03/09/2019

Vaccine protects both women and men from HPV cancers

Treatment 03/07/2019

London man is cured of HIV -- what does that mean for other HIV-infected patients?

Treatment 03/06/2019

A mind-altering medication related to the club drug Special K won U.S. approval Tuesday for patients with hard-to-treat depression, the first in a series of long-overlooked substances being reconsidered for severe forms of mental illness. The ...

Treatment 03/03/2019

When we smile, a heart specialist says, the chemicals that are released are positive

Treatment 02/19/2019

Study finds magnets can relieve depression when medications can't

Treatment 01/13/2019

Researchers have produced a drug cocktailthat helped monkeys infected with three deadly strains of Ebola recover from the disease

Treatment 01/10/2019

Is the pain stabbing or burning? On a scale from 1 to 10, is it a 6 or an 8? Over and over, 17-year-old Sarah Taylor struggled to make doctors understand her sometimes debilitating levels of ...

Treatment 12/27/2018

Fluctuations in the prevalence of the facial deformity found between Caucasians, Africans and Asians

Treatment 12/20/2018

Cleft lip and cleft palate are one of the most common birth defects in babies around the world

Treatment 12/19/2018

The U.S. government told doctors Wednesday to consider prescribing medications that reverse overdoses to many more patients who take opioid painkillers in a move that could add more than $1 billion in health care costs. Assistant ...

Treatment 12/19/2018

Cleft lip and palate develop early in pregnancy and doctors can prepare corrective surgery even before birth

U.S. 11/22/2018

After a diagnosis of breast cancer, many women have surgery followed by chemotherapy and radiation. But a new study shows that if the cancer is caught early enough, women might be able to avoid the ...

Treatment 11/15/2018

Meditation worked as well as traditional therapy for military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder in a small experiment sponsored by the Department of Defense. Researchers say meditation could be a better choice for some vets who ...