Category: 4. Health

NEW YORK (AP) — As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well, with one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade.

A new strain that…

NEW YORK (AP) — As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well, with one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade.

A new strain that dominated the early winter was not well matched to…

They found a large mass in my brain. That was the text message my husband, Steven, sent from the hospital. I kept rereading it, hoping I got it wrong, but I hadn’t. For weeks he had been complaining of feeling dizzy, and said it was getting…

DEKALB COUNTY, IL — The first case of measles has been confirmed in DeKalb County, the health department said Thursday.

Possible exposure locations include Walmart, 2300 Sycamore Road in DeKalb, between 2:30 and 4:45 p.m. March 2 and the U.S….

You know that colleague you see Monday through Friday? The one who keeps telling you about their relationship drama, monopolizing lunch-break conversation and expecting sympathetic commentary about the same issues every single day? Or what about…

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When Isabella Cavallo was in college, she started having a series…

A brain repair kit that helps yaks and other animals naturally cope with low oxygen levels at high altitudes may point to a new way to treat brain diseases such as multiple sclerosis. In mice with brain damage that mimics MS, the…

I went to a chiropractor in the 1980s for a stiff neck that had not improved after a month. A coworker praised him with the evangelical certainty usually reserved for miracle diets, used car salesmen, and people who have just read…

Just in case you needed new material for your nightmares, here’s this real-life case report of a woman in Greece who literally sneezed out maggots.

Doctors documented the spine-chilling sneeze this month in the journal Emerging…

A trial directly comparing…