New Zika Outbreak Hits Popular Tourist Destination Of Miami Beach
Mosquitoes have begun spreading the Zika virus in a second part of Miami — the popular tourist destination of Miami Beach — Florida officials announced Friday.As a result, the federal Centers for...
View ArticleNew York Fertility Doctor Says He Created Baby With 3 Genetic Parents
A doctor who treats infertility in New York City says he has helped a couple have the first baby purposefully created with DNA from three different adults.John Zhang of the New Hope Fertility Center in...
View ArticleCDC Urges Americans To Get A Flu Shot As Soon As Possible
Federal health officials are urging all Americans to get their flu shots as soon as possible, and are especially concerned that too few elderly people are getting vaccinated."Flu is serious. Flu is...
View ArticleJapanese Biologist Wins Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries about "autophagy" — a fundamental process cells use to degrade and...
View ArticleLife Expectancy In U.S. Drops For First Time In Decades, Report Finds
One of the fundamental ways scientists measure the well-being of a nation is tracking the rate at which its citizens die and how long they can be expected to live. So the news out of the federal...
View ArticleTo Fight Malaria, Scientists Try Genetic Engineering To Wipe Out Mosquitoes
It's a cold, damp fall day in London. But in a windowless basement laboratory, it feels like the tropics. It's hot and humid. That's to keep the mosquitoes happy. "In this cage, we have the adult...
View ArticleDanish Study Raises More Questions About Mammograms' Message
For years, women have been told that regular mammograms can help reduce their risk of dying from breast cancer by catching tumors at their earliest, most treatable stages. But a Danish study is the...
View ArticleCDC Seeks Controversial New Quarantine Powers To Stop Outbreaks
Federal health officials may be about to get greatly enhanced powers to quarantine people, as part of an ongoing effort to stop outbreaks of dangerous contagious diseases. The new powers are outlined...
View Article3 Women Blinded By Unproven Stem Cell Treatments
Scientists have long hoped that stem cells might have the power to treat diseases. But it's always been clear that they could be dangerous too, especially if they're not used carefully. Now a pair of...
View ArticleFederal Task Force Softens Opposition To Routine Prostate Cancer Screening
An influential federal task force is relaxing its controversial opposition to routine screening for prostate cancer. In the proposed revised guidelines released Tuesday, the U.S. Preventive Services...
View ArticleSome Small Tumors In Breasts May Not Be So Bad After All
Scientists say they may have solved a big medical mystery: why mammograms don't save more lives. A study involving thousands of breast cancer cases, released Wednesday, concludes that a significant...
View ArticleFDA Calls On Drugmaker To Pull A Powerful Opioid Off The Market
The Food and Drug Administration requested Thursday that the drugmaker Endo Pharmaceuticals stop selling Opana ER — its extended-release version of Opana. The FDA says the move marks the first time the...
View ArticleRoutine DNA Sequencing May Be Helpful And Not As Scary As Feared
Advances in technology have made it much easier, faster and less expensive to do whole genome sequencing — to spell out all three billion letters in a person's genetic code. Falling costs have given...
View Article'Living Drug' That Fights Cancer By Harnessing Immune System Clears Key Hurdle
A new kind of cancer treatment that uses genetically engineered cells from a patient's immune system to attack their cancer easily cleared a crucial hurdle Wednesday. A Food and Drug Administration...
View ArticleEditing Embryo DNA Yields Clues About Early Human Development
For the first time, scientists have edited the DNA in human embryos to make a fundamental discovery about the earliest days of human development. By modifying a key gene in very early-stage embryos,...
View ArticleScientists Use Gene Editing To Prevent A Form Of Deafness In Mice
Scientists have now edited genes inside mice to prevent a form of inherited deafness. While cautioning that much more research is needed, the scientists said they hope the technique might someday be...
View ArticleLife Expectancy Drops Again As Opioid Deaths Surge In U.S.
Life expectancy in the U.S. fell for the second year in a row in 2016, nudged down again by a surge in fatal opioid overdoses, federal officials report Thursday. "I'm not prone to dramatic statements,"...
View ArticleFlu Sickens Thousands Across The Country
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It is nasty out there, folks. And I'm not talking about winter weather. The flu, horrible colds, stomach bugs - we are a sick bunch of people...
View ArticleFDA Panel Affirms Safety Of Painkiller Celebrex
Updated at 1:54 p.m. A prescription painkiller that has been under a cloud for more than a decade is apparently safer than previously believed, a Food and Drug Administration panel concluded Wednesday....
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