American doctor arrives in Czech Republic after treating Ebola patients in Uganda

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/21 2:17A AP via Scripps News Group

Anxious healthcare workers in eastern Congo said Wednesday they are underprotected and undertrained in a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak of a rare type of the virus in one of the worlds most remote and vulnerable places. Long the scene of attacks...

Affordable Care Act enrollment projected to plunge by 5 million as costs spike

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/20 3:48A AP via Scripps News Group

Nationwide enrollment in the Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplace could plummet by nearly 5 million people this year, shrinking the number of participants in the program by more than 20%, according to a new analysis from the...

WHO: Global Ebola risk low, regional threat high in Congo

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/20 2:26A Justin Boggs

The risk of a global endemic from the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Africa is considered low, according to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Tedros said Wednesday that the risk in some parts of Africa, including...

WHO calls Ebola outbreak in Congo ‘deeply concerning,’ no vaccine available

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/19 4:10A Justin Boggs

The World Health Organization has called the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo deeply concerning, noting that the strain has no licensed vaccine or treatment. The statement from Dr. Anne Ancia, WHO representative in...

Colorado adult dies from hantavirus; case not linked to cruise ship outbreak

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/17 9:43A Scripps News Group

An adult Colorado resident has died from hantavirus, state and county health officials reported on Saturday. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) said its investigating the incident and said the Douglas County case is...

What to know about the Ebola outbreak that the WHO has declared a global health emergency

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/17 5:18A AP via Scripps News Group

The World Health Organization declared Sunday the Ebola disease outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern. Africas top public health body first confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congos Ituri province on...

No Americans have tested positive for hantavirus tied to cruise ship outbreak, CDC says

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/15 6:05A Scripps News Group

Federal health officials say no one in the United States has tested positive for hantavirus following an outbreak linked to a cruise ship. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday it is monitoring 41 people nationwide who may...

French hantavirus patient critically ill, being treated with artificial lung

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/13 3:48A AP via Scripps News Group

A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the sickened passenger said Tuesday. The outbreak has now reached 11...

Dr. Marty Makary resigns as FDA commissioner

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/12 7:45A AP via Scripps News Group

The head of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Marty Makary, is resigning after a rocky tenure that drew months of complaints from health industry executives, anti-abortion activists and other allies of President Donald Trump. He steps down...

Survey highlights gap between SPF awareness and daily use among Americans

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/12 6:26A Talker Research via Scripps News

Which screen wins your attention your phone screen or sunscreen? According to a new study, Americans are four times as likely to remember to plug their phone in at night than they are to put sunscreen on daily. The poll of 2,000 U.S. adults...

CDC leader rejects claims US is ‘less safe’ amid cruise ship hantavirus cases

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/12 5:17A Justin Boggs

Acting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya defended the United States response to a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, after one of his predecessors said actions by the Trump administration leave the country...

Small study hints that revving up immune cells might help fight HIV

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/12 5:08A By LAURAN NEERGAARD

WASHINGTON (AP) Scientists are tweaking a powerful cancer therapy in hopes it could fight HIV instead, by supercharging patients' own immune cells . On Tuesday, researchers said a single dose of those revved-up cells strongly suppressed HIV in...

Supreme Court temporarily extends access to abortion pill

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/11 9:59A AP via Scripps News Group

The Supreme Court is leaving womens access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect. Justice Samuel Alitos order Monday...

Cruise ship passengers now being monitored in Omaha, Atlanta after hantavirus outbreak

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/11 5:18A Scripps News Group

A total of sixteen passengers from a cruise ship linked to a hantavirus outbreak are being monitored at the Nebraska Medical Center, where one person who tested mildly positive is being cared for in a biocontainment unit. The remaining 15...

2 passengers test positive for hantavirus as a third shows symptoms after cruise ship evacuation

News 5 Cleveland (Your Health Matters) 5/11 1:17A AP via Scripps News Group

A French woman and an American tested positive for the hantavirus, as nations around the world scrambled Monday to repatriate passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak and quarantine or isolate them. Passengers from the ship began...