October 13, 2016 Images show addiction's effect on kids, but to what end? Widely shared, heartbreaking images of children dealing with the effects of their loved ones' heroin addiction are raising questions about whether the pictures and videos can scare addicts straight or simply exploit the youngest victims of the epidemic.
October 13, 2016 More evidence links high sodium intake to risk of death Keeping sodium intake low may prolong life according to a new study that set out to clarify the long-term risk of eating too much sodium and the benefits of cutting down.
October 13, 2016 Study finds high rate of overdiagnosis from mammograms Better treatment and not earlier detection with screening mammography may be the reason rates of death from breast cancer have declined in recent years, according to controversial results from a large U.S. database study.
October 12, 2016 Teen OCD may trace back to environment at birth and even before Obsessive-compulsive disorder that surfaces during adolescence or early adulthood may actually have origins in the circumstances surrounding pregnancy and infancy, a Swedish study suggests.
October 11, 2016 Day care not linked to child obesity Working parents who send their children to daycare no longer need to worry about whether this puts their kids at increased risk for obesity, a U.S. study suggests.
October 11, 2016 Health conditions worsen as aid trickles into remote Haiti In this most western tip of Haiti, 300 patients with festering wounds lay silently on beds at the main hospital in the seaside village of Dame Marie waiting for medicine a week after Hurricane Matthew hit the remote peninsula.
October 11, 2016 4 people sickened with salmonellosis after eating Costco chicken salad The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is warning against consuming rotisserie chicken salad sold to customers of a Washington Costco after four people became sick with salmonellosis, a foodborne illness that can cause severe diarrhea and results from exposure to salmonella.
October 10, 2016 'Like a nuclear bomb,' cholera and destruction after hurricane in Haiti Patients arrived every 10 or 15 minutes, brought on motorcycles by relatives with vomit-covered shoulders and hoisted up the stairs into southwest Haiti's Port-a-Piment hospital, where they could rest their weak, cholera-sapped limbs.
October 7, 2016 Dietary saturated fat linked to aggressive prostate cancer Men with prostate cancer may be more likely to have the most serious form of the disease if their diet contains a lot of fat from meat and dairy, a recent U.S. study suggests.
October 5, 2016 New outbreak in Flint: What is shigellosis? The city of Flint, Michigan, is seeing a rise in cases of a bacterial illness called shigellosis, and the ongoing water crisis there may be in part to blame, according to news reports