by Christopher P. Holstege, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainTwo deaths in Boulder County, Colorado, in 2023 are the latest in the U.S. to be blamed on the powerful class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes. Most health systems cannot detect nitazenes, so the exact number of overdoses is unknown, but they’re implicated in more than 200...
POSTED BY BOSTON UNIVERSITY It’s a grim projection: in 2024, for the first time ever, the United States is expected to surpass more than two million new cases of cancer in a year. The bleak forecast comes from the American Cancer Society’s latest annual cancer statistics report, released earlier this month. According to the society,...
November 1, 20235:20 AM ET Max Barnhart Sand flies carry the protozoan parasites that spread leishmaniasis. It was thought to be a disease of tropical climates, but leishmaniasis-causing parasites have now been found living and circulating in the United States.Science Photo Library Back in 2014, dermatologist Bridget McIlwee saw a 3-year-old patient in central Texas...
By Sally Robertson, B.Sc. Reviewed by Dr. Jennifer Logan, MD, MPH Food allergy refers to the body’s abnormal immune reaction to foods that would usually be harmless. In the case of food-allergic individuals, the immune system incorrectly identifies food proteins as harmful and launches an immune response to attack them. The severity of a reaction ranges from mild itchiness of...
