Earlier in the race, the Oz campaign mocked Mr. Fetterman repeatedly over his health. But at a campaign event on Wednesday in Harrisburg, Pa., as he appeared with Nikki R. Haley, the former United Nations ambassador, Dr. Oz sought to keep his focus firmly on matters of public safety, in keeping with Republican efforts to…
The World Health Organization has released a ranking of fungi that threaten human health in its most ambitious effort to draw attention to a constellation of pathogens that are largely overlooked, even as they have become increasingly widespread, resistant to treatment and deadly. The health agency listed 19 invasive fungal diseases, including four it described…
Nearly all Americans hospitalized for monkeypox infection had weakened immune systems, most often because of H.I.V. infection, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Wednesday. Of 57 hospitalized patients described in the report, 82 percent had H.I.V. More than two-thirds of the patients were Black and nearly one-quarter were homeless, reflecting racial and…
Clorox is voluntarily recalling about 37 million bottles of scented Pine-Sol because the cleaning products may contain bacteria that can cause serious infections in people with weakened immune systems, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said. Pine-Sol’s research and development team detected bacteria during a “routine product review,” a Clorox spokeswoman said. She said that Pseudomonas…
Weeks after Valeria Schenkel took an experimental drug named after her, the daily seizures that had afflicted her from birth became less frequent. But the drug caused fluid to build up in her brain, and a year later, she died at age 3. The drug was given to only one other child, and she experienced…
The work is part of an approach to cancer treatment called de-escalation: an effort to individualize treatment to a specific subtype of the disease, achieving the same results with less treatment and fewer interventions. Some women with breast cancer are able to forgo chemotherapy if gene tests determine that it will not be helpful and…
And because excess fatty tissue can produce additional estrogen, obese women are dramatically more likely to develop endometrial cancer, Dr. Brawley said. Those who take estrogen without progesterone are also at an increased risk for developing the cancer, he added. To manage that risk, when doctors prescribe estrogen to manage hot flashes, they should also…
WASHINGTON — President Biden received an updated coronavirus booster shot on Tuesday, using the opportunity to plead with Americans to bolster their protection ahead of a possible surge in virus cases in the coming months. Flanked by top federal health officials overseeing the pandemic response, Mr. Biden warned that rising cases in Europe could portend…
Unilever has issued a voluntary recall of more than a dozen aerosol dry shampoo products sold in the United States, saying they may contain elevated levels of benzene, a carcinogen. The affected products were produced before October 2021, the conglomerate said, and are from several different brands owned by Unilever: Dove, Nexxus, Suave, TIGI and…
Robin Feldman, an expert on pharmaceutical intellectual property at the University of California Hastings College of Law, said the conflict over psychedelics reflects the larger problems of a patent system that saddles Americans with some of the highest prescription drug prices in the world. “It’s not pretty when you look under the hood,” she said.…