Jessica Castaneda

A new world brings with it new diseases and risks to the health of man. Jessica Castaneda is the person who documents all such items and broadcasts it to her readers first. Her belief is that prevention is better than finding a cure, and so she issues words to the wise every day through her column. With health policies, announcements, information broadcasts, and urgent cures, Jessica's column is always brimming with the new.
Ebola vaccines

Aid group says WHO is restricting access to Ebola vaccines in Congo

A rigid system of eligibility set by the World Health Organization means far too few people at risk of Ebola are being vaccinated in an outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo, the aid group MSF said on Monday. The medical ...

A common numbing medication turned a woman’s blood blue

In Rhode Island, a 25-year-old woman gave a new meaning to the phrase ‘feeling blue’. She developed a rare and sometimes incurable condition called methemoglobinemia that turned her blood a shade of navy blue. The case was described on Wednesday ...

Texas girl contracts brain-eating amoeba during swim in river

A young Texas girl is fighting for her life after she was infected with a deadly brain-eating amoeba following a day spent swimming in a river, according to reports. Lily Mae Avant, 10, went swimming over Labor Day weekend in the Brazos River near ...

10-year-old Texas girl contracts brain-eating amoeba while swimming

A weekend swim left a young girl fighting for her life when she contracted a brain-eating amoeba with a 97% fatality rate. The 10-year-old girl swam in the Brazos River and Lake Whitney in Bosque County near Waco over Labor ...

FDA takes major step toward approving first peanut allergy treatment

The US Food and Drug Administration’s Allergenic Products Advisory Committee on Friday voted in favor of approving a treatment for peanut allergies in children. The drug Palforzia is designed to minimize the incidence and severity of allergic reactions in people ...

CDC revises down number of vaping-related illnesses across U.S.

The U.S. government has refined how it is evaluating an outbreak of breathing illnesses in people who vape, now counting only cases that are most closely linked to electronic cigarette use. Health officials on Thursday said 380 confirmed cases and ...

Questions surround cause of vaping-related illnesses as local man hospitalized

As the federal government proposes a crackdown on vaping, local hospitals are now seeing cases of vaping-related illnesses. President Donald Trump announced a new enforcement proposal Tuesday that would require e-cigarette companies to take their flavored products off the market. ...