Special devices used during open heart surgery may have been contaminated with bacteria that puts patients at risk for life-threatening infections, U.S. health officials warned Thursday. Some LivaNova PLC (formerly Sorin Group Deutschland GmbH) Stockert 3T heater-cooler devices, which are used during many open heart surgeries, might have been contaminated ... Read More »

Steps to reduce bloodstream infections in dialysis patients will be mapped out Thursday at a meeting of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a coalition of kidney and dialysis groups. Dialysis treatment — either in a hospital, a dialysis unit or at home — is needed when ... Read More »

Health officials are urging pregnant women to avoid a Miami neighborhood where mosquitoes are apparently infecting people with the Zika virus. The number of local transmissions of the virus has apparently increased to 14, Gov. Rick Scott said Monday. While infection with the Zika virus is harmless to most people, ... Read More »

THURSDAY, July 28, 2016 — Getting U.S. teens out of the driver’s seat before midnight would reduce their risk of fatal crashes, federal health officials said Thursday in a new report. One-third of fatal teen car crashes occur at night, with 57 percent of those taking place before 12 a.m., ... Read More »

Despite the fact that the U.S. facilities for disorder control set a aim for eighty percentage of humans in at-danger agencies up to date be screened for colorectal cancer with the aid of 2018, that they had no longer up-to-date till a latest take a look at whether there has ... Read More »

ATLANTA, April 13  — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday the Zika virus can cause birth defects like very small heads and other neurological damage in the fetuses of infected mothers. CDC officials said they had gathered enough data to make the announcement, putting to rest ... Read More »