PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti needs a surge of foreign nurses and doctors to stem deaths from a raging cholera epidemic that an international aid operation is struggling to control, the United Nations’ top humanitarian official said.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson said on Wednesday it is recalling 9 million more bottles of its Tylenol painkiller because they do not adequately warn customers about the presence of trace amounts of alcohol used in the product flavorings.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nearly half of colorectal and cervical cancers and a third of breast cancers in the United States are diagnosed in the late stages, even though screening tests are available to detect them early on, a report by U.S. health officials said on Wednesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite concerns that breastfeeding while Mom is on epilepsy medication could hinder infants’ cognitive development, a small study out Wednesday finds no evidence of harm to early-childhood IQ.
KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - It’s a sacrifice some people make by living in the wide-open spaces: nobody to take care of their teeth.
LONDON (Reuters) - An estimated 33.3 million people worldwide have the HIV virus that causes AIDS, but the global health community is starting to slow down and even turn the epidemic around, a United Nations report said on Tuesday.
(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil unit has begun a voluntary recall of Children’s Benadryl allergy tablets, in cherry and grape flavors, citing insufficiencies in the development of the manufacturing process.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than half of Americans will have diabetes or be prediabetic by 2020 at a cost to the U.S. health care system of $3.35 trillion if current trends go on unabated, according to analysis of a new report released on Tuesday by health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A once-a-day pill combining two Gilead Sciences Inc AIDS drugs reduced the HIV infection rate by nearly 44 percent in high-risk gay and bisexual men, researchers reported on Tuesday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Poor families who sign up for high-deductible health plans are more likely to put off needed care than wealthier families, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a finding that suggests such plans may need to be revamped if they are to save health costs.