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New strain of bird flu H7N9 ‘kills more than a third’
LONDON (AP) — More than a third of patients infected with a new strain of bird flu died after being admitted to the hospital earlier this year, Chinese researchers report in a new study. Since the new...
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Local Water Aerobics For Healthy Summer Fun
The Edinburg Parks and Recreations have plenty of ways for you and your family to beat the heat this summer and one of those is aquatic aerobics. Lifeguard instructors J.D. Castilla and Luis Ramos...
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Commit to Fit Health Walk Tomorrow
Get those walking shoes ready and come Commit to Get Fit with FOX2 tomorrow evening at La Vista Park in McAllen. This month we are walking to support International Childhood Cancer, so wear yellow....
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An Artificial Pancreas Is In The Works For Type 1 Diabetes Patients
The device would monitor blood sugar levels constantly and automatically administer insulin as needed. The device worked as promised in a three month trial study of 24-7 people. This Mini-Med...
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Health Matters: Fox 2 Walks in Support of Childhood Cancer Awareness
According to the World Health Organization, 90,000 children die from cancer worldwide each year so tonight FOX 2 and our sister station Univision, teamed up with the community to walk in support of...
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New rules aim to remove junk foods from schools
WASHINGTON (AP) — High-calorie sports drinks and candy bars will be removed from school vending machines and cafeteria lines as soon as next year, replaced with diet drinks, granola bars and other...
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Health Matters: Walking and Texting may be just as Dangerous as Texting and...
We all know texting while driving is dangerous and sometimes fatal, but what about texting while walking? Well, new studies have found texting while walking may be just as dangerous and result in...
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New device reminds health care workers to keep hands clean
RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Mo. (AP) — Hospitals have fretted for years over how to make sure doctors, nurses and staff keep their hands clean, but with only limited success. Now, some are turning to technology...
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School Vending Machines To Receive Health Makeover
The Agriculture Department plans to remove high calorie sports drinks and snacks from schools as soon as next year. For the first time, all foods sold in America’s one-hundred-thousand schools will...
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WHO: People with HIV Should be Treated Early to Stop Spread
LONDON (AP) — Young children and certain other people with the AIDS virus should be started on medicines as soon as they are diagnosed, the World Health Organization says in new guidelines that also...
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Obesity Researchers Say Food Is Addictive Like Drugs
Ever wonder why you crave ice cream or a slice of pizza? Well, one study attempts to answer the very question that may be contributing to Americas obesity…is food addictive? The study shows that food...
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Cambodia: 6-year-old girl becomes 9th person to die of bird flu
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A 6-year-old girl has become the ninth person in Cambodia to die of bird flu this year. Cambodia’s health ministry said Tuesday there have been 13 confirmed cases of H5N1...
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FDA Cracking Down On Online Pharmacies
The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on online pharmacies. Just last week, CNN reported the FDA shut down nearly seventeen-hundred online pharmacies for selling counterfeit or substandard...
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2 patients who underwent bone marrow transplants stop HIV drugs, no virus seen
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Two HIV-positive patients in the United States who underwent bone marrow transplants for cancer have stopped anti-retroviral therapy and still show no detectable sign of...
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Saudi Arabia: 2 More People Die From New Virus Related to SARS
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia says two more people have died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing to 38 the number of deadly cases in the kingdom at the center of the...
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Guns Result In Youth Hospitalizations
Many young people who visit the emergency room may be there because of a gun. Researchers surveyed nearly seven hundred people between fourteen and twenty-four years old treated in a hospital emergency...
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A break for smokers? Glitch may limit penalties
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some smokers trying to get coverage next year under President Barack Obama’s health care law may get a break from tobacco-use penalties that could have made their premiums...
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Healthcare Has New Informative Tool
Healthcare reform will impact each and everyone one of us come January 1st 2014, but a lot of Americans have questions. The government has provided a new tool to better explain the healthcare insurance...
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Testing sensors as safety net for seniors at home
WASHINGTON (AP) — It could mean no more having to check up on Mom or Dad every morning: Motion sensors on the wall and a monitor under the mattress one day might automatically alert you to early signs...
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