BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Ministry said that 27 foreigners in the country have been confirmed infected with the new coronavirus as of Monday morning, and two had died. An American died on Feb. 6 and a Japanese died on Feb. 8, ministry spokesman Geng ... More »
(Reuters) – Here are the latest developments around the new coronavirus outbreak: * China’s National Health Commission (NHC) said on Monday the death toll rose to 908, as employees began trickling back to offices and factories around China after the government... More »
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The economic and diplomatic costs of China’s coronavirus epidemic mounted on Monday with investors knocking $400 billion off the value of stocks and the government accusing the United States of over-reacting to the outbreak and whi... More »
(Reuters) – The number of deaths in China from the newly identified virus, which emerged in Wuhan city in the central province of Hubei in December, has risen to 361, as of Sunday, up 57 from the previous day, the National Health Commission said. Here are the ... More »
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese stock and commodity markets fell heavily on Monday as the death toll from a coronavirus epidemic in China rose to 361 and investors retreated into safe-haven assets in the first trading session after an extended Lunar New Y... More »
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – A team of scientists in Australia said on Wednesday they have successfully developed a lab-grown version of the new coronavirus, the first to be recreated outside of China, in a breakthrough that could help quicken the creation of a vacci... More »
LONDON/BEIJING (Reuters) – An outbreak of pneumonia that has killed one person in China and infected 40 others appears to be linked to a single seafood market in the central city of Wuhan and has not spread beyond there so far, the World Health Organization sa... More »
(Reuters Health) – Rural seniors hospitalized for certain life-threatening conditions are more likely than city-dwelling peers to die within a month of being discharged to an aftercare facility, a new study suggests. In an analysis of data from more than 2 mil... More »
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Tests of lung samples taken from 29 patients with vaping-related injuries suggest all contained Vitamin E acetate, a discovery U.S. officials described on Friday as a “breakthrough” in the investigation of the nationwide outbreak that has t... More »
BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday denied an industry bid to put on hold Massachusetts’ four-month ban on the sale of vaping products, keeping intact the toughest prohibition yet in a rapidly developing response to e-cigarettes and their potential li... More »
BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani on Friday denied a motion by the vaping industry to lift Massachusetts’ four-month ban on the sale of e-cigarettes and related products. Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-vaping-massachusett... More »
(Reuters) – A New York court on Thursday temporarily halted a state ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, giving the embattled vaping industry a breather just a day before the state’s prohibition was due to take effect. The appellate court ruling puts a ho... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday announced a ban on all flavored e-cigarettes besides tobacco and menthol in response to a recent nationwide spate of sometimes deadly lung illnesses that U.S. health officials have linked to vaping.... More »
(Reuters) – As U.S health officials scramble to identify the root cause of hundreds of severe lung illnesses tied to vaping, one possible culprit identified so far is a line of illicit marijuana vape products sold under the brand names “Dank Vapes” and “Chroni... More »
(Reuters) – U.S. public health officials on Friday reported a rise in the number of cases of respiratory illness possibly related to the use of e-cigarettes from across 25 states. The number of cases rose to 215 as of Aug. 27, from the U.S. Centers for Disease... More »
Higher levels of education promote health by helping people avoid many environmental health risks, but this benefit may not extend equally to all races and ethnicities when it comes to secondhand smoke, a U.S. study suggests Overall, higher educational attainm... More »
Hospital workers often come to work with contagious respiratory illnesses, against the recommendations of public health regulators, a Canadian study suggests. Nearly all of the 2,093 health care workers in the study who had such symptoms came to work at some p... More »
(Reuters Health) – Widespread beliefs about sleeping include advice on how much sleep is enough, what quality sleep means and how to achieve it, but when these pronouncements are wrong, they can do more harm than good, researchers argue. The study team gathere... More »
(Reuters Health) – Air pollution could be responsible for 3.2 million new cases of type 2 diabetes every year globally, suggests a new analysis. “We estimate that about 14 percent of diabetes in the world occurs because of higher levels of air pollution, that’... More »
(Reuters Health) – Exposing children to secondhand tobacco smoke increases their risk of developing habitual snoring, according to an analysis of existing research. The results, from 24 studies including nearly 88,000 kids, may create a “teachable moment” for ... More »
(Reuters Health) – National Guard soldiers may be plagued with sleep problems when they return home from the battlefield, according to a small study. For the new analysis, published online in Sleep Health, researchers first surveyed 928 veterans on National Gu... More »
(Reuters Health) – Women who breathe polluted air during pregnancy may be more likely to have children who develop high blood pressure, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers focused on what’s known as fine particulate matter, or PM 2.5, a mixture of solid particl... More »
(Reuters Health) – A growing number of American parents are using marijuana when they still have children living at home, according to a new study that suggests cannabis may be complicating efforts to limit kids’ exposure to second-hand smoke. Researchers exam... More »
(Reuters Health) – Hair products used primarily by black women and children contain a host of hazardous chemicals, a new study shows. The findings could explain at least in part why African-American women go through puberty earlier and suffer from higher rates... More »
(Reuters Health) – Face masks available to consumers in China for protection against air pollution vary widely in their real-world performance, suggests a recent study. Although a mask may filter tiny particles as advertised, face size and shape as well as mov... More »
(Reuters Health) – Talk therapy for insomnia is effective at reducing insomnia, as well as mental fatigue, among military personnel, according to a new study. For the new analysis, published online in Sleep, researchers recruited 151 active-duty U.S. Army pers... More »
(Reuters Health) – Women exposed to high levels of air pollution may have less success getting pregnant with fertility treatments or staying pregnant, compared to women breathing cleaner air, a South Korean study suggests. Researchers analyzed pregnancy rates ... More »
(Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline has won a further reprieve for its blockbuster Advair lung drug after U.S. regulators insisted Hikma Pharmaceuticals conduct a further clinical study evaluating its generic version of the drug. The Jordan-based firm said on Monday i... More »
FILE PHOTO: A surgery nurse is seen beside the heart beat monitor in the operating theatre of the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (UKB) hospital in Berlin, Germany February 29, 2008. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch /File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – Drugmakers are racing to scoo... More »
(Reuters Health) – Women with sleep disorders other than sleep apnea may be more than three times as likely to experience infertility as their counterparts who don’t have trouble sleeping, a recent study suggests. When insomnia was to blame for women’s sleepin... More »
Cigarettes are seen in this illustration photo taken May 24, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Roughly 11 percent of youth aged 13 to 15 around the world use tobacco products like cigarettes and cigars, a glob More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Babies may not get as much sleep in their parents’ bedrooms as they do in a room of their own, and they may also b More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – – A new type of “heat-not-burn” cigarette releases some of the same cancer-causing chemicals found in traditional More »
The introduction of plain packaging for tobacco cigarettes sold in Britain from next month could cut the number of smokers in the country by another 300,000 within a year, researchers said on Thursday. More »
By Anne Harding(Reuters Health) – A next step in wearable health sensors might be a device that causes a patch of skin to sweat, then analyzes the pe More »
Gridlock traffic is pictured on highway 395 as people evacuate Washington after an earthquake August 23, 2011. REUTERS/Jason Reed By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – People who live near sources of heavy traffic exhaust may be at higher risk of heart disease be... More »
By Andrew M. Seaman(Reuters Health) – In children with a common condition that causes them to periodically stop breathing during sleep, areas of the More »
By Carolyn Crist(Reuters Health) – Neighborhoods with a high proportion of black residents or high poverty tend to have the greatest density of store More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – In the U.S. alone, more than 6,000 people die in drowsy driving-related motor vehicle crashes each year, a recent More »
Electronic cigarettes are displayed in a shop in London, Britain August 19, 2015. REUTERS/Neil Hall Consuming e-cigarettes is far safer and less toxic than smoking conventional tobacco cigarettes, according to the findings of a study analyzing levels of danger... More »
An exhibitor staff member uses an electronic cigarette at Beijing International Vapor Distribution Alliance Expo (VAPE CHINA EXPO) in Beijing, July 24, 2015. REUTERS/Jason Lee By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – One in four teens who use electronic cigarettes h... More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Adolescents who were born extremely premature are much more likely to have chronic health problems than their peer More »
Bacon is fried up in a pan in a kitchen in this photo illustration shot October 26, 2015. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/Illustration By Shereen Lehman(Reuters Health) – Eating large amounts of cured meats was linked to worse symptoms among asthma sufferers, a French st... More »
Signage for GlaxoSmithKline is seen on it’s offices in London, Britain, March 30, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo GlaxoSmithKline said on Monday it had filed its new three-in-one inhaled lung drug for U.S. approval, putting it on track to reach the mark... More »
By Lisa RapaportSweeteners added to the liquid nicotine vaporized in e-cigarettes may release levels of certain toxins that are as high as in smoke f More »
By Madeline KennedyReuters – The increased risk of stroke that comes with smoking may extend to nonsmokers who live in the same household and breathe More »
By Kathryn Doyle(Reuters Health) – Obstructive sleep apnea is linked with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, new research shows. More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Even preemies who receive breathing treatments to improve lung function early in life may have respiratory challen More »
(Reuters Health) – Updated sleep recommendations for children and teens point to the benefits of getting enough sleep and the dangers of getting too little. “At least 25 percent of 12-year-olds get less than the recommended nine hours of sleep per night and th... More »
(Reuters Health) – While many forms of e-cigarette advertising increase the odds that teens will try the devices, a new U.S. study suggests that this generation of digital natives is most enticed by promotions they see online. Big U.S. tobacco companies are al... More »
Reuters Health – A major weakness of asthma care is that many patients don’t know how to use inhalers to deliver life-saving medicine when they’re gasping for air. The fix may be as simple as taking more time to teach patients how the devices work, a U.S. stud... More »
(Reuters Health) – Telephone quitlines offer free and effective treatment for tobacco dependence, but for low-income smokers who only have a cell phone and don’t have unlimited minutes, calls to the quitline may take a substantial portion of their cell minutes... More »
(Reuters Health) – Almost 10 percent of 11th and 12th graders are using e-cigarettes, and other alternative tobacco products are increasingly popular, according to a new study. Young people often use multiple tobacco products at once, the researchers found. “F... More »
(Reuters Health) – Basketball players could be at heightened risk for dangerous blood clots that travel to the lungs, according to a small Spanish study. But the results – calculated from only six cases of so-called pulmonary embolism in U.S. and European play... More »
LONDON, Anyone who goes down with flu in Europe this winter could be asked to enroll in a randomized clinical trial in which they will either be given a drug, which may or may not work, or standard advice to take bed rest and paracetamol. Those who agree could... More »
(This version of the story corrects number of troops in paragraph 1 to 1,000 from 10,000- headline altered to reflect change) PADAMARAN, Indonesia (Reuters) – Indonesia said on Friday it will send more than 1,000 troops to fight fires in southern Sumatra, as s... More »
