What Clinton and Trump would do about Obamacare
President Barack Obama may have won the battle to create Obamacare, but it will be up to the next president to fix it. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Local Zika cases on the rise in Florida
Florida Department of Health Investigators said Thursday that there are two new non-travel-related cases of the Zika virus in their state, bringing the total number of non-travel-related cases to 35. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Is knuckle-cracking actually good for you?
For the past 15 years, Tanya Johnson has been driving her boss nuts. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
McDonald's removes fitness tracker from Happy Meals
McDonald's is removing Step-It activity trackers from Happy Meals due to concerns over skin irritations, according to a statement sent to CNN on Wednesday. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Fourth brain-eating amoeba case of the year being treated
An unidentified patient in Florida is being treated after being infected with a brain-eating amoeba last week, according to the Florida Department of Health. It is the fourth known case this year of infection by the parasite Naegleria fowleri.
"We be... (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'Former Smoker' Shane Todd dies
Shane Todd, a familiar face in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's well-known "Tips From Former Smokers" campaign, has died from complications of cancer. He was 49. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Party drug ketamine closer to treating depression
The Food and Drug Administration put the experimental drug esketamine (also known as ketamine) on the fast track to official approval for use in treating major depression, Janssen Pharmaceutical announced Tuesday. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
IBM wants to stop E. coli outbreaks before people die
Five years ago in Germany, a bland vegetable caused one of the more devastating outbreaks of food-born illness in recent years. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Will Affordable Care Act survive as insurers pull out?
If three of the nation's largest insurers can't make it on the Affordable Care Act exchanges, can anyone? (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
W.Va. city has 27 heroin overdoses in 4 hours
There were 27 heroin overdoses within four hours, including one death, in Huntington, West Virginia on Monday. Officials believe the drug may be laced with something making it particularly dangerous. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Santiago Lange beats cancer -- then wins Olympic sailing gold
At 54, he has overcome cancer and the loss of half a lung -- now Santiago Lange is proving once again that nothing can stop him after winning Olympic gold at Rio 2016. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Strollers, car carriers send thousands of kids to ERs
Every hour, two children 5 or younger are treated in emergency rooms for injuries related to strollers or car carriers, according to researchers. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
14 million to be vaccinated against yellow fever
Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo began an emergency vaccination campaign this week to curtail a yellow fever outbreak that has sickened thousands of people and killed more than 400, the World Health Organization said. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How much a decade of obesity raises your cancer risk
The longer a woman is overweight or obese, the more her risk of cancer may increase along with the time. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Health care will cost you $260,000 in retirement
Saving for retirement might be easier if you know how much money you'll actually need.
It's a tough number to nail down, but a new report estimates how much you'll spend on what's likely to be your biggest expense: health care.
A couple retiring this... (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
