Kinnon MacKinnon, a Canadian researcher, was only faintly surprised this spring when the website for an upcoming conference did not list his talk alongside the dozens of others. He was slated to discuss one of the most fraught topics in medicine: patients who transition to a different gender but later …
Read More »E. Coli Outbreak Tied to McDonald’s Widens to 75 People in 13 States
The number of people hospitalized from the E. coli outbreak linked to raw onions on McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers has more than doubled, and those reporting they have been sickened rose to 75, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday. Illnesses of people ranging in age from …
Read More »Why Heat Waves of the Future May Be Even Deadlier Than Feared
Last month was the second-hottest September ever recorded; it came after the world’s warmest summer ever, in a year that is on track to be the most searing in recorded history. There’s only so much the human body can take. Heat killed 60,000 people in Europe alone in 2022, and …
Read More »Malaria Is Surging in Ethiopia, Reversing a Decade of Progress Against the Disease
Malaria infection rates are soaring in Ethiopia, where a combination of armed conflict, climate change and mosquitoes’ growing resistance to drugs and insecticides has accelerated the spread of a disease the country once thought it was bringing under control. More than 6.1 million malaria cases, and 1,038 deaths, have been …
Read More »Onion Recall Linked to E. Coli and McDonald’s Spreads to Other Fast Food Chains
A sweeping onion recall linked to an E. coli outbreak involving McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has prompted several other major fast-food chains to remove raw onions from their menu offerings. Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC and Burger King have stopped adding fresh onions to their signature items at certain locations. A …
Read More »As Bird Flu Spreads, Additional Human Infection Is Reported in Missouri
A Missouri resident who shared a home with a patient hospitalized with bird flu in August was also infected with the virus, federal officials reported on Thursday. But symptomatic health care workers who cared for the hospitalized patient were not infected, testing showed. The news eased worries among researchers that …
Read More »What Drugmakers Did Not Tell Volunteers in Alzheimer’s Trials
By 2021, nearly 2,000 volunteers had answered the call to test an experimental Alzheimer’s drug known as BAN2401. For the drugmaker Eisai, the trial was a shot at a windfall — potentially billions of dollars — for defanging a disease that had confounded researchers for more than a century. To …
Read More »New Stroke Recommendations Call Out Risks Unique to Women
New guidelines for preventing strokes spell out for the first time the risks faced by women, noting that pre-term births and conditions like endometriosis and early menopause can raise the risk. “Prior guidelines tended to be sex-agnostic,” said Dr. Brian Snelling, director of the stroke program at Baptist Health South …
Read More »E. Coli Outbreak Linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders
One person has died and 49 people have become ill following an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday. Most cases have been reported in Colorado and Nebraska. Initial investigations have suggested that the slivered onions served on …
Read More »F.D.A. Names a New Chief of Medical Devices
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced that Dr. Michelle Tarver, an agency veteran, will be the new director of the medical device division. Dr. Tarver will face a slate of pressing tasks, that include addressing calls to strengthen standards to protect the public from issues like racial bias …
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