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A rare, fatal disease called SPG50 affects fewer than 100 people in the world — and one of them is Naomi Lockard, a 3-year-old in Colorado (pictured at right and with her family at left). Click below for the full story. (Rebekah Lockard) A MOTHER'S MISSION – Rebekah Lockard of Colorado is frantic to save the clinical trial that could cure her daughter's rare disease — and it's largely up to her to raise the funds. Continue reading…‘PERSONAL CHOICE’ – Here's why more Americans have a growing distrust of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to doctors. Continue reading…COMMITTED TO A CURE – A Canadian father created a drug to save his son from a rare disease — and now other families are desperate to get the treatment. Continue reading… Terry Pirovolakis, pictured with his family, used his l...

High rates of false positive test results may be keeping women from sticking to recommended mammogram screenings for breast cancer, a new study has found.Researchers from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center in Sacramento, California, reviewed more than 3.5 million screening mammograms performed among more than one million women between 2005 and 2017.Women who received a true-negative result were more likely to return for future screenings, with a 77% compliance rate.THESE 17 CANCER TYPES ARE MORE COMMON IN GEN X AND MILLENNIALS, AS STUDY NOTES 'ALARMING TREND'By comparison, among those who received a false positive, only 61% returned for another mammogram in six months, and 67% returned for a recommended biopsy. (A false positive occurs when a mammogram shows an abnormal result that i...

Join Fox News for access to this content Plus special access to select articles and other premium content with your account - free of charge. By entering your email and pushing continue, you are agreeing to Fox News' Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, which includes our Notice of Financial Incentive. Please enter a valid email address. Having trouble? Click here. "Real Housewives of Orange County" star Vicki Gunvalson, 62, is sharing her recent health scare after she was hospitalized with sepsis, a potentially deadly disease that results from the body’s response to an infection."This entire health scare came unannounced — with no warning," Gunvalson told Fox News Digital.As Sepsis Awareness Month kicks off this September, Gunvalson’s timely story is helping to raise awareness of the...

A rare, potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease has sparked concern in the Northeastern U.S.Last week, a man from Hampstead, New Hampshire, died after testing positive for Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE).The man "was hospitalized due to severe central nervous system disease, and has passed away due to [the] illness," according to a statement from the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).NEW HAMPSHIRE RESIDENT DIES AFTER EEEV INFECTION, AS RARE, LETHAL MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUS SPREADS IN NEW ENGLANDAnother New Hampshire man, Joe Casey, is currently in the ICU on a ventilator after contracting three mosquito-borne illnesses, including EEE, according to local reports.In late August, four Massachusetts towns — Douglas, Oxford, Sutton and Webster — set a voluntary ev...

Join Fox News for access to this content Plus special access to select articles and other premium content with your account - free of charge. By entering your email and pushing continue, you are agreeing to Fox News' Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, which includes our Notice of Financial Incentive. Please enter a valid email address. Having trouble? Click here. Up to 5% of people who have surgery can develop an infection — which can prolong healing and lead to dangerous complications, studies have shown. Additionally, chronic wounds affect around 6.5 million patients in the U.S.Some bacteria can’t be seen with the human eye, which means they may be missed by physicians when cleaning a wound. Now, a new medical technology that uses fluorescent light has shown to be effective in det...

Join Fox News for access to this content Plus special access to select articles and other premium content with your account - free of charge. By entering your email and pushing continue, you are agreeing to Fox News' Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, which includes our Notice of Financial Incentive. Please enter a valid email address. Having trouble? Click here. When his infant son was diagnosed with a rare, fatal disease, a Canadian father was dismayed to discover there was no treatment or cure. So he set out to make one himself.Terry Pirovolakis, an IT director in Toronto, Ontario, welcomed his third son in Dec. 2017. It was a "normal, healthy birth," he told Fox News Digital — but within six months, he and his wife, Georgia Pirovolakis, noticed their baby, Michael, was not lifti...

CDC stepping up efforts to get kids vaccinated ahead of school year - CBS News Watch CBS News As a new school year is set to begin, some areas are seeing lower levels of vaccinations, which could make kids more susceptible to diseases like measles and whooping cough. Thd CDC is stepping up efforts to help get kids vaccinated, including those from lower income family who may struggle to afford health care. Celine Gounder reports. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On ...

Predicting a woman’s future heart disease risk could be as simple as administering a single blood test to screen for three risk factors.That’s according to research published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Saturday — research that was also presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress this weekend.The study, which included nearly 30,000 women averaging 55 years of age, measured two types of fat in the bloodstream along with a certain type of protein with a blood test in 1993, then monitored the participants’ health for a 30-year period, the researchers said.WHEN MEASURING HEART ATTACK RISK, ONE IMPORTANT RED FLAG IS OFTEN OVERLOOKED, DOCTORS SAY"The strongest predictor of risk was a simple blood measure of inflammation known as high sensitivity C-reactive pr...

Mass. Gov. Maura Healey says Trump can't "spell IVF, let alone understand what it means" - CBS News Watch CBS News Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, who signed a maternal health bill in her state last week, tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that she doesn't "believe anything that Donald Trump says," including his recent support of IVF. "I don't think Donald Trump can spell IVF, let alone understand what it means, because his own Project 2025, remember, which establishes a fetal personhood, would undermine and take away IVF treatment," Healey added. Be the ...

Join Fox News for access to this content You have reached your maximum number of articles. Log in or create an account FREE of charge to continue reading. By entering your email and pushing continue, you are agreeing to Fox News' Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, which includes our Notice of Financial Incentive. Please enter a valid email address. Having trouble? Click here. A growing number of Americans are skeptical of vaccines for COVID and other infectious diseases, according to the most recent national health survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.More than a quarter of respondents (28%) said they believe the COVID vaccines have contributed to thousands of deaths, according to a press release. This is an increase from 22% in June 2021.Me...