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Lung cancer death rates in men have plummeted since 1979 with nearly 500,000 fewer deaths than would have been expected if the mortality rate had stayed the same, according to the latest figures released by Cancer Research U.K. ahead of World Cancer Day. In the last 40 years lung cancer death rates in men have […]
Why have asthma deaths risen by a quarter in ten years? Fears grow that London’s choking pollution lies behind the death of a nine-year-old girl Ella Kissi-Debrah, from Lewisham, died of an asthma attack on February 15, 2013 The original inquest concluded she had died from acute respiratory failure But an expert who has examined […]
Mary Zeigler donated a kidney to her ex-husband Bill 20 years after the pair split up. (Fox 9 ) Former childhood sweethearts, whose fairytale ended 20 years ago after 24 years of marriage and two children, still fulfilled their promises of “in sickness and in health” after Mary Zeigler provided her ex-husband Bill Henrichs with a kidney. […]
It’s New Year’s resolution time, and you know how it goes: You stock up on new cookbooks, restart that gym membership, buy blackout shades so you can score quality sleep, and take other steps to prep you for making your healthy pledge happen. But before January is over, you drift back to your old ways. Instead of going […]
‘The sun could kill me’: Charity worker, 54, is forced to spend all day inside due to a one-in-a-million condition that makes her ‘allergic’ to UV light Fatima Perez, 54, from Conneticut, has Xeroderma Pigmentosum Her condition baffled family growing up in the Dominican Republic She’s suffered a lifetime of skin cancer, hair and eyesight […]
Simple test that takes less than ten minutes can tell ‘whether a stroke patient will still be alive in three years’ The new test measures memory and thinking skills within a week of a stroke Patients who do best have a much better prognosis than those who struggle German researchers tested it on 274 patients […]
The CDC said reported cases of congenital syphilis, which is when the disease is passed from mother to baby, jumped 153 percent between 2013 and 2017, from 362 cases to 918. (iStock) The number of newborns born with syphilis has reached a 20-year high, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday, tracking […]
Veteran donates kidney to fellow soldier Life-saving kidney donation between Vietnam veterans. Two Vietnam veterans who reunited nearly 50 years after they served in the Air Force together now share more than war stories. Doug Coffman donated a kidney to Jim McGee on Tuesday, just three months after they reunited since last seeing each other […]
As 2012 has come to a close we begin to look back at what we have and haven’t accomplished over the past year. It’s a common tradition to make a New Year’s Resolution for yourself. You may think that you need to live a healthier lifestyle by exercising more and eating better, or maybe you’re […]
FRIDAY, July 13, 2018 — Blacks have considerably increased risk for hypertension than whites through age 55 years, regardless of blood pressure levels through young adulthood, according to a study published online July 11 in the Journal of the American Heart Association. S. Justin Thomas, Ph.D., from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and colleagues […]