An Emergency Doc's Experience Contracting Ebola In part 1 of this exclusive video interview, MedPage Today 's editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust, MD, talks with Craig Spencer, MD, MPH, of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, about the 10-year ... 11/8/2024 - 5:32 am | View Link
Dairy workers may have bird flu without feeling sick, CDC reports The health agency now urges proactive testing and treatment for the virus among any workers who were exposed to H5N1. 11/7/2024 - 11:54 am | View Link
Is HIV a Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)? HIV is an infection that can be transmitted from one person to another through sexual activity, such as anal, oral, or vaginal sex. The terms “sexually transmitted infections (STIs)” and “sexually ... 11/7/2024 - 11:00 am | View Link
Experts converge in Lagos to discuss Africa’s preparedness against global health threats The two-day conference is organised by the Global Emerging Pathogens Treatment Consortium (GET) in collaboration with the Lagos State Ministry of Health. 11/6/2024 - 4:57 pm | View Link
Stopping mpox: Wild meat markets are a root cause and must be made safer, say researchers In many countries around the world, wild animals are sometimes killed for food, including monkeys, rats and squirrels. 11/5/2024 - 4:38 am | View Link
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks to registered nurse Kate Carleton about her efforts to prepare schoolchildren to treat injuries suffered in a mass shooting.
These senior citizens have waited on the phone for hours, driven miles, set-up work stations so they could get a Covid-19 vaccine appointment. See who was able to get one.
The global fertility rate has fallen from 5 births per woman in 1950 to 2.3 in 2021 - and even lower in the U. S., partly due to the cost of child-rearing and shifts in priorities. But "falling population and an elderly or aging population puts a lot of fiscal and economic pressures on society," says Economics Professor Melissa Kearney.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told The New York Times he experienced a series of health issues in recent years, including an abnormality that he said was caused by a worm that entered his brain and then died. CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains how this could have happened.
Americans' mental health issues are not identified and treated as readily as physical symptoms, especially among children - in part due to a shortage of clinicians. "We're looking for ways to integrate mental health into settings where children and families are every day," says Dr. Tami Benton, President of The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.