Prostate cancer screening: New guidelines let patients weigh harms, benefits

(CNN) The Hawaii State Department of Health has confirmed six cases of rat lungworm disease on the island of Maui and three cases on the Big Island over the past three months, an official said Monday.

The first live-attenuated Zika vaccine still in the development stage completely protected mice against the virus after a single vaccination dose, according to new research from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Instituto Evandro …

Dopamine neurons degenerate and die in the brains of people suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Credit: iStock. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have made significant progress in the search for new treatments for Parkinson’s disease.

(CNN) Despite what the American Cancer Society and other health organizations advise, many doctors still recommend routine mammograms to screen for breast cancer in younger and older women, a new paper suggests.

Most of us have about five dreams each night, though we’re not likely to remember any of them. But a team of researchers has found a pattern of brain activity that seems to reveal not only when the brain is generating a dream but something about the …

For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration is allowing a company to sell genetic tests for disease risk directly to consumers, providing people with information about the likelihood that they could develop various conditions, including …

A Denmark hospital has shared a photograph of a 75-year-old patient enjoying his final wish of a cigarette and a glass of wine with his family, while watching the sunset from a hospital balcony.

1981: CDC publishes the first report on what would later be identified as AIDS, about a cluster of unusual pneumonia deaths in otherwise apparently healthy gay men in Los Angeles.

In the early 1990s, the national diagnosis rate for autism was 1 in 10,000 children. In 2012 it was 1 in 68. In 2017 it’s 1 in 45.

Gianessa Wride, 7, who was diagnosed with alopecia back in January, still participated in her elementary school’s “Crazy Hair Day.

The lone polar bear at Utah’s Hogle Zoo – a beloved 19-year-old female that zoo staffers called an “ambassador to climate change” – died Saturday after being diagnosed with kidney failure last week.

(NBC Washington) – A live scorpion was sitting in a salad mix that a Chevy Chase, Maryland, couple bought from a Giant grocery store last week, the couple said.

Infection with the relatively innocuous reovirus may interfere with tolerance to food antigens and set the stage for – if not directly cause – celiac disease in genetically susceptible individuals, data from mice suggest.

If all your life, you have been functioning best in the evening and night, compared to the mornings, a gene mutation may be the cause.

NEW YORK — Nearly half of U.S. adults have been infected with the human papillomavirus or HPV, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.

MONDAY, April 10, 2017 (HealthDay News) — Beyond signaling the march of time, gray hair may also point to a higher risk of heart disease for men, new research suggests.

There’s a good reason for older adults to be conscientious and optimistic, a new study from England suggests. Researchers found that men and women ages 52 and older who had higher scores on measures of five “life skills” – conscientiousness, control, …

The 4,188 cases that have been reported in the state are nearly double the number reported at this time last year. By Joe LawlorStaff Writer.