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April 8, 2015
The latest Public Health England report showed that life expectancy of women in their 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s in the U.K has fallen. In U.S., Hawaii has the highest life expectancy.
April 7, 2015
The U.S. spends $4 billion a year on unnecessary medical costs due to mammograms that generate false alarms, and on treatment of certain breast tumors unlikely to cause problems.
April 4, 2015
Have you ever seen a kid studying piano, playing football, learning two languages, writing essays and - doing the homework? Well, those kids are around us and their competitive parents should be realistic about their kid’s abilities and wishes.
April 2, 2015
Two new studies presented at the Experimental Biology 2015 conference in Boston offered new evidence that eating just 3 to 4 servings of strawberries a day can reduce risk factors for heart disease and diabetes.
March 31, 2015
DNA from antibiotic-resistant bacteria is spreading from cattle feedlots across the US through the air, a new study from Texas Tech University has found.
March 26, 2015
Indiana Governor Mike Pence declared a public health emergency in Scott County due to an outbreak of HIV that has reached epidemic proportions.
March 26, 2015
John Rodakis, the parent of a child with autism was not looking to launch an investigation into the microbiome microorganisms and autism, but when his young son's autism unexpectedly and dramatically improved while taking an antibiotic for strep throat, he began a quest to understand why.
March 24, 2015
Large numbers of Canadians continue to venture abroad to seek medical care, according to a study by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
March 24, 2015
According to new research, saccharin, a popular sugar substitute, could potentially lead to the development of drugs capable of combating aggressive, difficult-to-treat cancers with fewer side effects.
March 21, 2015
The International Agency for Research on Cancer, a division of the World Health Organization (WHO), released classifications of five pesticides, most notably identifying glyphosate as "probably" carcinogenic to humans.
March 19, 2015
The French government is set to pass a bill to ban ultra-skinny models that will lead to the modeling agency or fashion house being fined or jailed for hiring them, according to French Health Minister Marisol Touraine.
March 18, 2015
A team of researchers in Cleveland and Peru has discovered that valacyclovir, a common drug used to treat the herpes virus, is effective in reducing HIV-1 levels, even when patients do not have herpes.