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AHA: New Insights Into Sickle Cell and Stroke Risk

Monday, June 19, marks World Sickle Cell Day , observed annually to increase awareness and public understanding of the disease that the Centers for Disease ...

Marriage good for the heart

A further breakdown of the data pointed out that divorce was related to a 35% higher risk of getting heart disease, whereas for widowers the risk of sufferi...

Google Trained Machines To Predict When a Patient Will Die

In trials that used data from two US hospitals, the researchers were able to show that the algorithms in the model improved predictions as to the length of stay...

Amazon, Buffett, JP Morgan Health Care Company To Be Based In Boston

The venture will be geared toward employees of the three companies, rather than healthcare consumers overall in the United States, though Dimon said that pote...

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 ...

Video Game Addiction Officially Named A Disorder By World Health Organization

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

Giant hogweed is listed in Virginia by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) as a "noxious weed, ' and by the Department of Conservation ...

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

To date, 20 cases have been identified in this outbreak, the health department said. "We do not have any indication at this time that the two outbreaks are re...

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

Saturday through 7:45 a.m. Sunday. "At this point, they're just leaving it because they said all my teeth would fall out and my jaw would draw if I had chemo"...

Our brains response to carbs: Why we love hot chips so much

He says the problem lies with the overwhelming urge we have to consume carbohydrates and fats and it often happens subconsciously. The researchers asked peopl...

Texas has more cities than any other state with vaccination exemptions

Dr. Peter Hotez is a Houston vaccine scientist and one of the study's authors. "In both instances, vaccine coverage declined due to organized anti-vaccine...

Higher Vitamin D Levels Reduce Colorectal Cancer Risk

A large global study that was published on Thursday indicates that people with higher levels of vitamin D in their blood are at a lower risk for colorectal ca...

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....