FDA Revisits Safety Of Essure Contraceptive Device
After their third son was born, Tisha Scott and her husband decided they were done having kids. So Scott, 34, of Drakesville, Iowa, decided to get her tubes tied."As old married people, neither of us...
View ArticleFDA Advisers Call For More Safety Data On Essure Sterilization Device
The Food and Drug Administration should gather more information to try to get a better sense of the safety of the Essure sterilization device, a panel of experts assembled by the agency recommended...
View ArticleResearch On Fetal Tissue Draws Renewed Political, Scientific Scrutiny
Larry Goldstein is trying to find drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease.
View ArticleCloning Your Dog, For A Mere $100,000
It's a typical morning at the Dupont Veterinary Clinic in Lafayette, La. Dr. Phillip Dupont is caring for cats and dogs in the examining room while his wife, Paula, answers the phone and pet owners'...
View ArticleDisgraced Scientist Clones Dogs, And Critics Question His Intent
The Sooam Biotech Research Foundation's sleek marble building is on the outskirts of Seoul, South Korea. After passing through a guarded gate, visitors climb the steps to the entrance and a big door...
View ArticleShould Human Stem Cells Be Used To Make Partly Human Chimeras?
An intense debate has flared over whether the federal government should fund research that creates partly human creatures using human stem cells.The National Institutes of Health declared a moratorium...
View ArticleProstate Screening Drops Sharply, And So Do Cancer Cases
One of the most intense debates in men's health has flared again: How often should men get screened for prostate cancer?This debate has simmered since 2012, when the U.S.
View ArticleA Controversial Rewrite For Rules To Protect Humans In Experiments
Throughout history, atrocities have been committed in the name of medical research.Nazi doctors experimented on concentration camp prisoners. American doctors let poor black men with syphilis go...
View ArticleScientists Debate How Far To Go In Editing Human Genes
Global warming isn't the only vexing issue the world wrestled with this week.While delegates gathered in Paris to discuss climate change, the International Summit on Human Gene Editing convened in...
View ArticleFDA Lifts Ban On Blood Donations By Gay And Bisexual Men
The Food and Drug Administration is relaxing a 32-year-old ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.The FDA announced Monday that it was replacing a lifetime prohibition with a new policy that...
View ArticleScientists Debate How Far To Go In Editing Human Genes
Global warming isn't the only vexing issue the world wrestled with this week.While delegates gathered in Paris to discuss climate change, the International Summit on Human Gene Editing convened in...
View ArticleFDA Lifts Ban On Blood Donations By Gay And Bisexual Men
The Food and Drug Administration is relaxing a 32-year-old ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.The FDA announced Monday that it was replacing a lifetime prohibition with a new policy that...
View ArticleGiving Birth Outside A Hospital Is A Little Riskier For The Baby
How safe is it in the United States to be born someplace other than a hospital? The question has long been the focus of emotional debate and conflicting information. Now, Oregon scientists and health...
View ArticlePopular Acid Reflux Drugs Are Linked To Kidney Disease Risk
People who take certain popular medicines for heartburn, indigestion and acid reflux may want to proceed more cautiously, researchers reported Monday.The drugs, known as proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs),...
View ArticleBig Zika Virus Outbreak Unlikely In The U.S., Officials Say
The outbreak of Zika virus in Brazil and other countries has raised concern that the pathogen could start spreading widely in the United States, as well. But federal health officials and other...
View ArticleU.S. Health Agencies Intensify Fight Against Zika Virus
A human study of Zika virus vaccine could begin as early as this year, U.S. health officials told reporters Thursday.But the officials cautioned that it could be years before the vaccine is available...
View ArticleDog Flu Virus Spreading Across The United States
When Elizabeth Estes's dog, Ollie, started coughing last year, she didn't think he was seriously ill at first. But then the 3-year-old Jack Russell-chihuahua mix got much worse."All of a sudden, he...
View ArticleBritish Scientists Gain Approval To Edit DNA In Human Embryos
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: For the first time, the government is allowing scientists to edit the DNA inside human embryos. As NPR's health correspondent, Rob Stein,...
View ArticleDisease Detectives In Brazil Go Door-To-Door To Solve Zika Mystery
It's the first thing in the morning at a crowded public health clinic in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, when a team of disease detectives from the United States and Brazil arrive.They are searching for new...
View ArticleStudy Finds Multiple Problems In Fetuses Exposed To Zika Virus
The Zika virus has sparked international alarm largely because of fears that the pathogen is causing microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with unusually small heads and damaged brains.But...
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