According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an outbreak of Rift Valley fever has occurred in several areas of Kenya, primarily the North Eastern Province, Coast Province, Eastern Province, Central Province, and Rift Valley Province.
Health care professionals should focus on women’s lifetime heart disease risk, not just short-term risk, according to updated American Heart Association guidelines.
Tamoxifen offers long-term benefits for breast cancer prevention among women at high risk of the disease, according to two randomized, blinded clinical trials in the February 21 Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The trials found that the breast cancer risk reduction persists long after women stop taking tamoxifen.
In prioritizing health-care spending, health professionals rank childhood immunization highest and cancer treatment for smokers lowest, according to a new international survey published in PLoS Medicine.
Russian health authorities have confirmed an outbreak of bird flu in the Moscow region. Several dead birds found in the village of Pavlovsky tested positive for the disease.
Two major research organizations in the Phoenix area have announced they will collaborate on an ambitious goal: Creating a vaccine to prevent the development of cancer. Researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe and Mayo Clinic will use the latest developments in laboratory and clinical sciences to reach their goal — finding components in cancer that could be used to vaccinate against the occurrence of the disease.
Several of the nation?s top experts in pandemic, bioterrorism, and disaster readiness will be on hand next week at the premier annual gathering of preventive medicine and public health leaders to discuss public health preparedness and response efforts at the national, state, and local levels.
According to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine, the incidence of heart disease and associated fatalities are higher for people who live in poor neighborhoods verses those who live in more affluent areas.
Johns Hopkins cardiologists are calling for an expansion of the criteria widely used by physicians to detect and assess a postmenopausal woman’s chances of developing cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death among women in the United States.
The entire Latin America region needs to take preventive measures to prepare for what promises to be a ?difficult year? for dengue fever following an outbreak of the mosquito-borne infection in Paraguay, United Nations health officials have warned.