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Diabetes and pancreatic cancer connected for African-Americans, Latinos
Thompson Charitable Fund. In their study on African-American and Latino adults, researchers found the number of cases of the cancer among diabetics diagnosed ...
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Someone who plays video games for a few hours each day could be known simply as a devoted gamer, but the World Health Organization (WHO) has a new classificati...
Toxic Plant That Can Cause Blindness Found In Maryland
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Excessive gaming is now a mental health disorder
The World Health Organisation (WHO) will officially be classing addiction to video games as a disorder from today. Experts worldwide are urging caution regard...
Compulsive video-game playing now a mental health condition
According to WHO , health concerns associated with gaming behavior include insufficient physical activity, unhealthy diet, problems with eyesight or hearing, mu...
Heat, air quality alerts issued for parts of coastal Maine
According to NWS, temperatures will be back down in the 80s on Tuesday , with a high near 83. For many locations, heat index values will approach and top 1...
Video game addiction is now being recognised as a mental health condition
However, Vladimir Poznyak of the WHO's Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse told New Scientist previous year, when the agency first revealed its de...
ER doctor seen mocking, cursing at patient suspended
He must be dead. She then asked Bardwell mockingly, "Are you dead, sir?" Samuel Bardwell said he received this treatment after waiting three hours to see ...
Questions posed by Theresa May's pledge — NHS Brexit dividend
It follows Mrs May's announcement that the NHS budget would rise by 3.4% a year on average over the next five years. "But the commitment I am making goes ...
Woman strangles bobcat to death in front yard in Georgia
She said she knew that they "go for your jugular". She went to take a picture of the bobcat but said she knew something wasn't right when started coming closer....
World Health Organization declares compulsive video gaming a mental disorder
The move means that people will now be able to receive treatment for their addictions to video games and that the NHS in the United Kingdom will be able to prov...
UK Home Office returns epileptic boy's medicinal cannabis oil
Billy Caldwell, who is 12, had travelled to Canada with his mother Charlotte to obtain cannabis oil after Billy's doctor was ordered to stop prescribing it. The...
Del Monte vegetable trays recalled in Illinois, Indiana and other Midwest states
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Mental Health and The American Male
The World Health Organization reports that suicide is the second-leading cause of death among 15- to 29-year-olds, and that 75 percent of all suicides occur i...
Theresa May Promises £20 Billion Annual Boost To NHS
The funding increase would happen anyway, Hunt added - potentially committing the Treasury to significant tax increases if the economy does not perform as well ...
Georgia grandma strangles rabid bobcat to death in her yard
Just moments before wrestling the wildcat last Thursday, Phillips put a sticker on the back of her new truck: "women who behave rarely make history". Cellphon...
Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Popular Breakfast Cereal — CDC
Thirty-nine people with the illness were interviewed, and 30 of them reported eating cold cereal, with 14 of them recalling Honey Smacks in particular, the C...
Flavoured additives in e-cigarettes can cause heart damage
Fetterman, an assistant professor of medicine at BUSM. Research has shown that smokers of menthol cigarettes receive a "physiologically relevant" dose of the fl...
Religious people live four years longer than atheists study finds
People who are religious live an average of four years longer than those who have no ties to religion, a study published Wednesday in the journal Social Psycho...
Billy Caldwell to be given access to cannabis oil
She added: 'The Home Office , myself and my team have been working extremely hard throughout the night to make this happen, which is truly wonderful. The child...
Twin Falls man prepares for marathon at Relay for Life
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Our brains response to carbs: Why we love hot chips so much
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Texas has more cities than any other state with vaccination exemptions
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Higher Vitamin D Levels Reduce Colorectal Cancer Risk
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United Kingdom to loosen immigration rules to allow more skilled workers
The government is to relax immigration rules to allow more non-EU skilled workers into the UK. Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said the government wo...
David Spade donates $100000 to mental health charity after sister-in-law's death
Yes I have in fact , two times and it was the hardest time in my life and it was hard for me to even just get out of bed and I shut out the world completely....
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