Stockbyte/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Levels of certain proteins in the brain and spinal fluid of people who suffer continuing issues as a result of concussions are different from those who haven’t had concussions, according to a new small study published Monday in Read More
Bend, Ore. – Oregon’s environmental and health agencies want ideas from Bend-area residents and businesses for new air pollution rules that aim to better protect people’s health. The Bulletin reports The Department of Environmental Quality and the Oregon Read More
Courtesy of Inside My Head(NEW YORK) — A British woman who was undergoing treatment for a brain tumor died just one day before her wedding. Anna Swabey met her fiance Andrew Bell on the online dating app Tinder in January 2015, one month after being diagnosed with Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(MIAMI) — The Miami neighborhood where a local outbreak of Zika was first detected has been declared free of ongoing Zika transmission. The first locally-acquired Zika cases in the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami were reported in July. The Read More
Bend, Ore. – The Bend Park & Recreation District tested their water outlets this summer and found that seven of the 155 water outlets showed elevated levels of lead, but none is believed to be a danger to the public’s health. According to a presentation Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — An explosion in New York City, bombs found in New Jersey and the ensuing manhunt for the suspected perpetrator have put many on the East Coast and throughout the country on edge. The explosion comes after months of terror events have Read More
Salem, Ore. – Oregon’s uninsured rate dropped for the fifth consecutive year in 2015, placing Oregon among the top tier of states with the highest percentage of residents with health care coverage, according to new national data released by the U.S. Census Read More
iStock/ThinkstockBy DR. JENNIFER ASHTON, ABC News Senior Medical Contributor Who’s the breadwinner in your family? A new study shows the economic responsibility may affect one partner more than the other. Researchers found the more that men were counted on to be the Read More
Photodisc/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The American Academy of Pediatrics is strengthening its warning that children not be given prescriptions containing codeine because it says the pain medication can be ineffective, and the risk of side effects, including breathing Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Suicides in young kids appear to have important differences from suicides in adolescents and teens, a new study published in Pediatrics finds, shedding light on the need for special approaches to this group of young people. Notably, Read More
