A museum dedicated to Virginia state history was briefly transformed into a science laboratory when federal health inspectors became concerned that a 135-year-old scab of human skin might release the deadly disease smallpox. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent two investigators to the Virginia Historical Society to look at the dried fleck of human [...]
Will a new version of the female condom catch on? Officials in HIV-ravaged Washington, D.C., certainly hope so. They’ve launched a citywide campaign to get women and their partners to think about giving the new and improved disease- and unwanted pregnancy buster a try. The original version was a bit of a dud. At about [...]
Seven really is the lucky number – at least when it comes to sleep. Regularly sleeping less than seven hours a day is linked to an increased risk for heart disease, say researchers at West Virginia University School of Medicine. But don’t assume that more sleep is better: The researchers also found that regularly sleeping [...]
Women aren’t the only ones forced to cope with hormonal changes in midlife. Experts say more than five million men feel the effects of male hypogonadism, a.k.a. male menopause. And it’s no walk in the park. Symptoms of the disorder include mood swings, fatigue, and reduced muscle mass, in addition to a waning sex drive [...]
You may know Natalie Cole as a gorgeous, Grammy-winning singer, but as she reveals in her gripping new memoir, she’s also a former junkie and double organ transplant recipient. In her twenties, Cole was addicted to heroin. Then she got clean and sober. Twenty-five years later, in early 2008, she discovered she had hepatitis C. [...]
More than 25 years into the epidemic, Americans are reasonably well informed about HIV/AIDS. But a new report reveals that a shocking number of Americans remain in the dark about one very important question: Am I infected? Up to 20 percent of the 1.1 million adults living with HIV in the U.S. don’t know they [...]
Can popping a pill prevent prostate cancer? It’s a question some men are asking, in light of new research showing that two prescription drugs used to treat benign prostate enlargment cut the risk of prostate tumors in men. But we’re not there yet, doctors say. GlaxoSmithKline has asked the FDA to approve its drug Avodart [...]
Zsa Zsa Gabor, 93, was hospitalized Sunday to have part of her right leg amputated. Doctors examined a lesion on Gabor’s leg that had gone from just over an inch to about a foot and was growing gangrenous, said her publicist, John Blanchette, who added that the amputation would likely be below the knee. She [...]
Doctors have a new weapon in the war on cancer, now that the FDA has green-lighted a vaccine to prevent anal cancer caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV). The Gardasil HPV vaccine, made by Merck, is approved for children and young adults between the ages of nine and 26. Anal cancer, the disease that [...]
Each year, nearly 570,000 Americans die from cancer, while another 1.5 million are diagnosed with a form of the disease. Now, a study by the National Cancer Institute suggests one group may be at a much greater risk to die from cancer – men. Why? Are women just more likely to survive bouts with cancer? [...]
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