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Zika outbreak prompts travel warning for area of Miami
MIAMI (AP) — In a highly unusual travel warning, health officials advised pregnant women to avoid a part of Miami where mosquitoes are apparently transmitting Zika directly to humans. Health officials...
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Florida officials go into damage-control mode over Zika
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Thank goodness it's the slow season in Florida. At least that's what officials and representatives of the state's multibillion-dollar tourism industry are thinking in the wake of...
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Infant’s death is first Zika-related fatality in Texas
HOUSTON (AP) -- Texas reported its first Zika-related death Tuesday after a baby girl whose mother traveled to El Salvador while pregnant died shortly after birth in a suburban Houston hospital. The...
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Judge blocks Ohio law to divert Planned Parenthood money
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A federal judge blocked an Ohio law aimed at diverting public money from Planned Parenthood, saying in a Friday ruling that the group stood to suffer "irreparable injury." The...
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Organ network mapping a path to fairer liver transplants
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's transplant network is taking a long-awaited step to ease a serious disparity: Where you live affects whether you get a timely liver transplant or die waiting. Desperate...
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Democrats seek repeal of ban on federal funding of abortion
NEW YORK (AP) -- The law that bans federal funding for Medicaid coverage of most abortions is now in the spotlight some 40 years after it was passed by Congress, emerging as an election issue in the...
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Volunteers sought as race to develop a Zika vaccine heats up
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wanted: Volunteers willing to be infected with the Zika virus for science. It may sound bizarre, but researchers are planning just such a study - this winter, when mosquitoes aren't...
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Fists not football: Brain injuries seen in domestic assaults
CHICAGO (AP) -- There are no bomb blasts or collisions with burly linemen in Susan Contreras' past. Her headaches, memory loss and bouts of confused thinking were a mystery until doctors suggested a...
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Accidental overdoses killed 8 people a day in Ohio last year
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Accidental drug overdoses killed 3,050 people in Ohio last year, an average of eight per day, as deaths blamed on the powerful painkiller fentanyl again rose sharply and pushed...
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Study finds most teens vaping fruity flavors, not nicotine
NEW YORK (AP) -- Health officials warn that electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices are poisoning kids with nicotine. But new research suggests that most teens aren't vaping nicotine at all but...
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Mylan launching cheaper, generic version of EpiPen
Mylan will start selling a cheaper version of its EpiPen after absorbing waves of criticism over a list price for the emergency allergy treatment that has grown to $608 for a two-pack, making it...
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Frenchwoman who got world’s 1st face transplant dies at 49
PARIS (AP) -- Isabelle Dinoire, a Frenchwoman who received the world's first partial face transplant, has died 11 years after the surgery that set the stage for dozens of other transplants...
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Abortion Re-education case presented to Mexico’s Supreme Court
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- When Patricia Mendez miscarried in March 2015, she says police and detectives were called into the hospital ward to watch as she writhed in pain and expelled the dead, 20-week...
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Innovative program, CAPABLE, is helping seniors care for themselves at home
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Where you live plays a big role in staying independent as you age. Now researchers say an innovative program that combined home fix-ups and visits from occupational therapists and...
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Why insurance denies your claim, but pays your neighbor’s
Tracey Stahl lost part of a leg to bone cancer last fall, and she has to wince through bouts of crippling pain from an ill-fitting artificial limb because of a strange health insurance limit: Her plan...
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Big Food’s biggest trend? Crusading against Big Food
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Gathered for a free music festival, a crowd waits to see one of the headline attractions - an exhibit about fast-food ingredients. On display: Beakers of powders and liquids...
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Treat or monitor early prostate cancer? 10-yr survival same
LONDON (AP) -- Men with early prostate cancer who choose to closely monitor their disease are just as likely to survive at least 10 years as those who have surgery or radiation, finds a major study...
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Brain cancer now leading childhood cancer killer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Brain cancer is now the deadliest childhood cancer in the U.S., now ahead of leukemia, a result of improved leukemia treatment and a frustrating lack of progress on brain cancer....
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FDA tentatively approves first drug for muscular dystrophy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health regulators have granted tentative approval to a highly contested drug for muscular dystrophy that has become a flashpoint in the debate over patient access to...
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Miami’s Wynwood cleared of Zika; focus shifts to Miami Beach
MIAMI (AP) -- With health authorities declaring a win against Zika in Miami's Wynwood arts district, their emphasis shifts to the remaining transmission zone on nearby Miami Beach, where residents...
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