UK Schools Could Hold Needle-Free Adrenaline Sprays for Allergic Pupils

LONDON, Oct. 19 -- The spare adrenaline kept in a school office could soon look very different. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) opened a consultation today on letting sc... Read More

Congo's Ebola Reaches an Eighth Province; Source of Infection Not Given

KINSHASA, Oct. 19 -- Two men in their twenties from the Wapinda health zone have given Congo's Ebola epidemic a new province, and the health ministry has not said how they caught the virus. One of the... Read More

£140 Million for NHS Urgent Care, but 8 of 25 Winter Sites Aren't Open Yet

LONDON, Oct. 19 -- Queen's Hospital in Romford built its emergency department for around 325 patients a day. It now regularly treats more than twice that number, the government said on Sunday, as it p... Read More

Pennsylvania Counts Five Measles Deaths. The CDC Lists Two Nationwide.

HARRISBURG, Oct. 17 -- Pennsylvania's Department of Health says measles has killed five people in the state. ABC News reports six, counted by local health officials. The CDC's national measles page, u... Read More

Kenya's Third Ebola Case Was Quarantined; Three Contacts Are Still Untraced

NAIROBI, Oct. 17 -- The 65-year-old woman who became Kenya's third confirmed Ebola patient on Friday had been in quarantine since 6 October, and that, the Kenya Ministry of Health said, is why her ill... Read More

Gynecologists Back Hormones for Menopause. The Patch Is Hard to Find.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- American gynecologists have rewritten their advice on menopause symptoms for the first time since 2014, and the treatment their own authors call "in many cases, the best option,... Read More

EMA Backs Rasonque Pancreatic Cancer Pill in Under 150 Days

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 16 -- People in Europe whose pancreatic cancer has spread and outlasted their first chemotherapy may soon have an oral pill to ask their oncologists about. On Thursday the European Med... Read More

FDA Clears Anktiva for Papillary Bladder Cancer on Extrapolated Data

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- A bladder cancer patient whose high-grade, finger-like tumors keep returning after BCG treatment now has an FDA-approved drug made for that situation. The agency's reasoning, th... Read More

Maryland Sample Finds E. coli in NY Raw Cheddar, Pulled in Two States

WORCESTER, Oct. 16 -- A sample in Maryland of a New York dairy's raw cheddar isolated two strains of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, and nobody has reported getting sick. That gap, between a positive s... Read More

Maryland Man Says Ozempic Left Him Legally Blind. Europe Added a Warning

NEW YORK, Oct. 15 -- Todd Engel, a 63-year-old Maryland man, says the vision in his right eye went dark on New Year's Eve 2024, and that by the time his left eye failed about ten months later he was l... Read More

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