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Young Women More Likely To Get Lung Cancer

A new study has found that young women in the United States are more likely to have lung cancer than men. He noted that women and men tend to differ in th...

Where Does The World Stand On E-Cigarettes?

The study found that overall, only 1.3 percent of participants remained smoke-free for at least six months. The new report was published online May 23 in the ...

Inside North Korea's nuclear test site demolition show

North Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan said Friday that his country still wanted to pursue peace and said it would give Washington more tim...

Rice will lose nutritional value as carbon dioxide levels rise

A study published this week in the journal Science Advances specifically focuses on rice, which under higher carbon dioxide concentrations experiences a red...

Seafood-lovers have more sex and take less time to get pregnant

All the participants were enrolled into the Longitudinal Investigation of Fertility and Environment (Life) study looking at environmental influences on birth...

Cutting out booze and bacon dramatically reduces cancer risk

The WCRF has launched an online cancer health check tool to allow people to assess their own lifestyle and risk. Meaning, your risk of cancer is increased by ...

North Korea's explosive, "peace-loving" gesture of dismantling its nuclear site

Last week, the White House sent its deputy chief of staff and his advance team to the city state, the official said. "I know the president is (optimistic) as we...

What is Nipah virus and how is it transmitted?

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FDA: Teething anesthetics could be deadly for children

Benzocaine gels and liquids are sold OTC under different brand names such as Anbesol, Hurricaine, Orajel , Baby Orajel, Orabase, and store brands. "If compan...

Sleeping Late During Weekends May Help People Live Longer, A Study Revealed

Watch out, because sleeping over 8 hours a day also raises the mortality rate by 25% compared to those that regularly sleep for 6-7 hours. That, Åkerstedt said,...

Polish author Olga Tokarczuk wins 2018 Man Booker International Prize

Since 2016, it has rewarded an English-language translation of a single work of global literature. Flights recounts stories including the 19th-century tale ...

South Korean president 'perplexed' at Trump's decision to cancel North Korea summit

A mis-timed reference to the "Libya model" of denuclearisation in 2003 was interpreted as a USA threat to topple Mr Kim, Gaddafi style. Trump called it a "tru...

Judge: President can't block critics

Buchwald said that their inability to reply to Trump's tweets after being blocked amounted to a violation of their First Amendment rights. Donald Trum...

Congress Votes to Pass the Right-to-Try Bill

The change would ease regulations and oversight on more than two dozen financial companies, including BB&T Corp., SunTrust Banks, Fifth Third Bancorp and Americ...

Carson Wentz among Eagles who plan to visit White House

However this year's visit comes after a tumultuous 2017 season which saw Trump trigger a series of furious assaults on mostly black NFL players who kneeled du...

'I am being arrested': Egyptian blogger blindfolded and dragged away in night

Abbas' Twitter account was suspended past year as President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi's government pressed a crackdown on dissent, which rights groups say is th...

Massive explosions heard near key Iranian compound close to Israel border

Iran "represents a long-term destabilizing influence" in the region, Votel said, by backing Assad, conducting cyber operations in the region, supporting the Leb...

Oil prices edge up on Venezuela, Iran supply worries

Investors are now questioning that hypothesis, pushing up forward prices. An analysis by this newspaper, more than a year ago, had indicated that nearly the ent...

Ryanair braces for first profit drop in 5 years

Europe's biggest low-priced airline Ryanair is expecting its profit to drop for the first time in five years. However, fuel will be "a major cost headwin...

GE Transportation spins off rail unit in $11.1 billion merger with Wabtec

In November 2017, when GE chair John Flannery confirmed rumours that the company was looking to offload its transport division, reports circulated that while ...

D'Antoni: Warriors Have 'All The Pressure' in Game 4

I've been doing it for a while. "No matter what questions I was being asked over the first two games or what the expectations was, I had the highest expectation...

Funeral set Sunday for Pakistani girl killed at Texas school

His aunt, Sarah Saunders, said Christian died a true hero. "He laid down his life so others could have a chance". Megan Lysaght, manager of the Kennedy-Lugar ...

Deadpool Creators Deletes a Scene From Deadpool 2

It also redeemed Ryan Reynolds , an actor who had made several attempts at movie stardom, but had never quite managed to attain the level of popularity many in...

Bill Gates Spills The Beans On Donald Trump

A new clip of Gates talking about his first two meetings with Trump, obtained by MSNBC , may show why the tech innovator turned down the role. HPV refers to t...

Teen in Respiratory Distress After Using E-cigarettes

The doctors surmised that it is likely the teen is allergic to one of the chemicals in the e-juice, the liquid added to e-cigarettes and used to produce the vap...

Amgen gets approval for migraine drug

The approval for sale in the European Union is expected in the next few months. Express Scripts, the largest USA manager of prescription benefits, has called ...