‘From farm to plate’, first-ever World Food Safety Day demonstrates the need to take unsafe food off the menu
The Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization are joining forces to...
Experimental drug completely effective against Nipah virus infection in monkeys
Scanning electron micrograph of Nipah virus (yellow) budding from the surface of a cell....
U.S. measles cases in first five months of 2019 surpass total cases for any year since 1992
On March 30, CDC is reporting 971 cases of measles in the United States thus far in 2019. This is the greatest number of cases reported in the U.S. since 1992, when 963 cases were reported for the entire year.
After 20-year increase, New Diabetes Cases Decline
New cases of diagnosed diabetes in the U.S. decreased by 35 percent since a peak in 2009 – the first sign that efforts to stop the nation’s diabetes epidemic are working, CDC researchers report.
WHO highlights huge scale of tobacco-related lung disease deaths
Ahead of World No Tobacco Day (31 May), the World Health Organization is highlighting the damage tobacco causes to lung health: over 40% of all tobacco-related deaths are from lung diseases like cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and tuberculosis....
Being teased about weight may lead to more weight gain among children, NIH study suggests
Youth who said they were teased or ridiculed about their weight increased their body mass by 33% more each year, compared to a similar group who had not been teased, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health. The findings appear to...
Annual Report to the Nation: Overall cancer mortality continues to decline
The latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer finds that, for all cancer sites combined, cancer death rates continued to decline in men, women, and children in the United States from 1999 to 2016. Overall cancer incidence rates, or...
NIH scientists call attention to the impact of opioids on women and children
Understanding the full effects of the nation’s opioid epidemic requires coordinated, long-term research involving women of reproductive age and children. In an editorial in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Diana W. Bianchi, M.D.,...
NIH and radiology societies map path for translational research on AI in medical imaging
Artificial intelligence has an expanding role to play in medical imaging. NIBIB
Algeria and Argentina certified malaria-free by WHO
Algeria and Argentina have been officially recognized by WHO as malaria-free. The certification is granted when a country proves that it has interrupted indigenous transmission of the disease for at least 3 consecutive years.
