Obstetrics & gynaecology
Summer heat brings special health risks for pregnant women
Hot summer weather impacts some people more than others, and pregnant women are among those most likely to become overheated.
Jul 1, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Heading to Europe this summer? Get your measles shot
(HealthDay)—As Europe deals with its biggest measles outbreaks since the 1990s, U.S. health officials are urging travelers to be up-to-date on vaccination.
Jun 17, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Q&A: Malaria continues to be a significant travel-related disease
Dear Mayo Clinic: I'm planning a three-week trip to Tanzania. My doctor recommends that I take medication to prevent malaria. Is this really necessary? I thought malaria wasn't common anymore. Are there other things that ...
May 13, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
As U.S. measles cases hit new high, experts warn the disease can be deadly
(HealthDay)—Measles cases in the United States have now reached 695—the highest since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced late Wednesday.
Apr 25, 2019
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Pediatrics
Is my child seriously ill?
Parents generally tend to consider their child more unwell than GPs and use different factors to judge symptom severity, according to researchers at the University of Bristol's Centre for Academic Primary Care in a study ...
Mar 12, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How 'completely avoidable' measles cases continue to climb
The U.S. has counted more measles cases in the first two months of this year than in all of 2017—and part of the rising threat is misinformation that makes some parents balk at a crucial vaccine, federal health officials ...
Feb 27, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Strep A bacteria kill a half-million people a year. Why don't we have a vaccine?
Looking back, Otto remembers struggling to breathe when he was as young as four. Exertion would make him cough, and the coughing fits would go on and on. Growing up in a family of eight children in a village in northern Uganda, ...
Feb 12, 2019
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Health
Otherwise healthy and think you have the flu? Avoid the emergency room
The Centers for Disease Control reports that influenza activity in Alabama is now widespread and likely to increase. Alabama's Department of Public Health also reports that almost every Alabama county is experiencing significant ...
Jan 17, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Toward vaccination against the chikungunya virus
A live vaccine genetically engineered from a common measles vaccine promises to be effective against the chikungunya virus. Such is the central finding of a recently completed Phase II trial now published in the prestigious ...
Dec 21, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Berlin nightclub patrons urged to get meningitis test
Berlin authorities on Thursday urged patrons of a famed nightclub in the German capital to immediately visit a doctor to be checked for bacterial meningitis after a visitor was hospitalized for the illness.
Oct 4, 2018
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