The World Health Organization (WHO ) wants you to stop eating too much sugar. Based on new guidelines proposed this week, WHO is encouraging people to consume less than 5% of their total daily calories from sugars. Current guidelines from the organization, published in 2002, recommend consuming less than 10% of total daily calories from […]readmore
Concerned about the increase in heroin overdose deaths , Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, called for increased efforts to fight what he considered an «urgent public health crisis.» In a video released Monday, Holder said the increased efforts include not only law enforcement, but also treatment and efforts to keep people away […]readmore
A new blood test could detect with 90 % accuracy whether a person will develop Alzheimer’s or mild cognitive impairment three years in advance, according to a study released by the journal Nature Medicine. The research, conducted by a group of experts from the Georgetown University Medical Center in the Washington DC, found that some […]readmore
PROVIDENCE – HealthSource RI, the state’s health benefits exchange, will open a temporary satellite Contact Center at 250A Centerville Road in Warwick. The temporary location will open Monday, March 10, and will remain open until the end of April. HealthSource RI will open the satellite center to provide a convenient alternative walk-in location to Rhode […]readmore
Malaria affects millions of people every year. A group of British scientists and U.S. researchers warned that climate change could bring a significant increase in cases of malaria around the world, as well as the spread of the disease to mountainous areas of Africa and South America. The study, published in the journal Science, says […]readmore
In the world there is a very small group of people who is immune to the HIV virus that causes AIDS . For years, scientists have attempted to replicate this natural resistance. Now researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, in the United States, managed to genetically engineer the immune cells of 12 patients with HIV […]readmore
The Rhode Island Department of Health is reporting that both Rhode Island Hospital and Roger Williams Medical Center are working to notify patients who may have been exposed to measles. On February 25, a man was treated at Roger Williams Medical Center for a sore throat and fever. He was then seen on the 28th at […]readmore
A wide variety of diseases and psychological disorders in school-age children are linked to the fact that they are children of older men. So says an extensive joint investigation by Indiana University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden where 2.6 million people were studied. The researchers noted that these diseases are caused by mutations in […]readmore
Within the last eighteen months, a small group of children have been admitted to hospitals in California with polio-like symptoms, but without the disease. Cases have occurred in a diameter of 100 miles, so the research team does not believe the virus outbreak represents a single or group. However, the possibility remains that many more […]readmore
Rhode Island – Rhode Island Health officials say 7 more people died from drug overdose in 5 days, bringing the total deaths so far this year to 45. Dr. Michael Fine, Director of the Department of Health of Rhode Island, announced the deaths on Wednesday during a community meeting on the prevention of overdose held […]readmore