Over 20 million children worldwide miss out on measles vaccine annually
(Christine Rankin/ CBC News) — The number of measles cases worldwide in the first three months of 2019 has increased 300 per cent compared to the same period in 2018 to more than 110,000 cases reported worldwide, says a UNICEF report released Thursday.
UNICEF said that an estimated …
U.S. measles outbreak raises questions about immunity in adults
(Julie Steenhuysen/ Reuters) — Adults in the United States who were vaccinated against measles decades ago may need a new dose depending on when they received the shot and their exposure risk, according to public health experts battling the nation’s largest outbreak since the virus was deemed eliminated in 2000.
Up to 10 percent of the …
The drug-resistant fungus that is putting health officials on alert
(Elizabeth Payne/ Ottawa Citizen) — A Winnipeg resident returned from India seriously ill with a brain abscess and a chronic ear infection. The unidentified patient, who had undergone dental surgery in India, was infected with a drug-resistant form of bacteria.
And that was not all.
The 64-year-old is now recognized as Canada’s Patient …
Why science can’t seem to tell us how to eat right
(Theresa Tamkins/ WebMD) — Eggs once fell from grace, going from the sunny breakfast staple of choice to a hard pass if you wanted to avoid heart attacks. Then, like all disgraced celebrities, they seemed to make a comeback — in the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Health experts said we could stop worrying about the cholesterol …
Skipping breakfast tied to higher risk of heart-related death, study finds
(Jacqueline Howard, CNN) — Whether you eat breakfast might be linked with your risk of dying early from cardiovascular disease, according to a new study.
Skipping breakfast was significantly associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular-related death, especially stroke-related death, in the study published in the Journal …
Recall of blood pressure drug losartan expanded
(Jen Christensen/ CNN) — If you take blood pressure medicine, you’ll want to double-check your bottle. Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has expanded its recall of losartan potassium and losartan potassium/hydrochlorothiazide tablets.
The right way to use a public bathroom (to avoid getting sick)
(Melinda Wenner Moyer/ New York Times) — There are a handful of things in this world I’m extremely thankful for, yet also quite grossed out by. Public bathrooms are one of them. (Also: colonoscopies.) My disgust peaks around this time of year, when everyone around me seems to be coughing or sneezing or both — sometimes in the next stall. …
Wake up, people: You’re fooling yourself about sleep, study says
(Sandee LaMotte/ CNN) — Hey, sleepyheads. What you believe about sleep may be nothing but a pipe dream.
Many of us have notions about sleep that have little basis in fact and may even be harmful to our health, according to researchers at NYU Langone Health’s School of Medicine, who conducted a study published last Tuesday in the journal …
Just a strip of bacon a day ‘increases cancer risk,’ U.K. study finds
(Cillian O’Brien/ CTV News) — People who eat just moderate amounts of red and processed meat are still at risk of bowel cancer, according to a new study.
Scientists found that colorectal cancer risk rose 20 per cent with every 25 grams of processed meat people ate per day, equivalent to a strip of bacon or slice of ham.
Those who ate …