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Sen. John McCain dies after battling brain cancer

After retiring from the Navy, McCain settled down in Arizona where he met his second wife, Cindy Hensley, and eventually made a run for Congress in 1982. In 200...

War hero, statesman, presidential candidate John McCain has died

Obama and Biden both served in the Senate with McCain before the 2008 election. John McCain was also famous for impatience and a quick temper, angering man...

If You Consume Alcohol, Must Know This Biggest Myth About It!

But a massive new global study finds that no amount of wine, beer or liquor consumption is safe for your health . Additionally, certain studies may not take ...

First human case of West Nile virus confirmed

The first case, reported earlier this month , was confirmed in the Southern Health-Santé Sud region. So far, said the province, two people have needed to be ...

IH posts drop in overdose deaths

Coroners Service. The two regions, which already have unusually high average of 31.4 and 40.2 deaths respectively, topped even those. A sliver of good news in...

Prosecutors: Story of man urinating on black girl made up

MI police arrested a man accused of urinating on a 5-year-old girl in an alley and calling her a racial slur Wednesday. The incident was first reported on Thu...

Hybrid teenager: first known offspring of Neanderthal and Denisovan

This could pose a problem for the scientists who wish to explain away the discovery of Neanderthal or Denisovan DNA in modern humans by claiming it merely co...

John McCain to Discontinue Medical Treatment for Brain Cancer

In the wake of this announcement, Meghan McCain thanked everyone for the 'strength to carry on'. His illness hasn't stopped McCain from being a political fo...

Coconut oil is 'pure poison,' Harvard professor says in talk on nutrition

According to her, coconut oil is a poison . Butter, in comparison, is only made up of 60 percent saturated fat while beef fat contains around 40 percent. O...

Serbia Among Europe's Worst Hit by Measles, WHO

The upper house of Italy's parliament recently voted to suspend for a year a requirement that all schoolchildren in the country be vaccinated, including again...

Ebola death toll in DR Congo rises to 55

Health authorities last week started administering the USA -developed mAb114 treatment to Ebola patients, the first time such a treatment had been used again...

Former CDC director accused of groping woman in NY

Frieden holds medical and public health degrees from Columbia University, did an infectious disease fellowship at Yale University and worked on controlling tube...

There is no safe level of alcohol intake, study warns

She explained: "This study goes further than others by considering a number of factors including alcohol sales, self-reported data on the amount of alcohol dr...

King Bio recalls children's medicine due to potential contamination

King Bio's recalling nearly a year's worth of 32 homeopathic children's medicines that claim to treat everything from stomachaches to bed wetting. The contami...

Coconut oil is pure poison, says professor

He called the substance "one of the worst things you can eat" that was as good for well-being as "pure poison", reports The Guardian . The oil has "no known of...

Woman Contracts UK’s First Reported Case Of Rare Flesh-Eating STD

Donovanosis is an STD caused by a bacterium called Klebsiella granulomatis , according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH ). The British Associati...

New cervical cancer guidance: Use HPV tests

The Pap smear has always been the gold standard for cervical cancer screening , but an expert panel now says the human papillomavirus, or HPV, test is also a...

Gut enzymes convert donor blood to much-needed universal type O

Each of these types can also be positive or negative for another antigen, known as the Rhesus factor. The nation's blood supply is often in jeopardy and just ...

Open-plan offices put a spring in your step

The paper appears in Occupational and Environmental Medicine . The US study used chest sensors to track movement and heart rate in hundreds of people in diff...

Test positive for West Nile virus

Two dead ravens found in southeast B.C. have tested positive for West Nile virus, marking the first evidence of the virus in the province this year. IH and th...

West Nile virus found in mosquito traps in Stafford

The groups discovered the West Nile Virus in those in Macomb and its surrounding area. Officials emphasized that smoke from wildfires does not impact mosquito...

Facebook, NYU team up to use AI to accelerate MRI scans

To realize those benefits, NYU is exploring using technology to reconstruct data generated during fast MRI scans. Daniel Sodickson, vice chair for research in r...

Vaping may increase risk of cancer, researchers have found

The long-term health effects of vaping are still somewhat unclear, but scientists are learning more about at least one danger: Much like traditional cigarette...

Missing Iowa College Student Mollie Tibbetts Found Dead

He would receive a mandatory life sentence if convicted. The videos had captured images of Tibbetts running as well as a Black Chevy Malibu that investigators...

New measles cases in Europe hit record high

In total, there's been at least 37 deaths due to measles across the continent in 2018. At least 107 cases of the disease have been reported in 21 states thi...

Study show contact lenses not environment-friendly

Microplastics measure under 0.2 inches (5 millimeters) in length - about the size of a sesame seed or smaller - and can wind up in the ocean and Great Lakes,...

People on low-carb diets die younger, says science

But what if we told you that you didn't need to give up your body's preferred source of energy or your occasional favorite sweet treat in the name of health...

Harvard professor slams coconut oil, says, ‘It’s pure poison’

In fact, many so-called superfoods may not be all they're cracked up to be. Is it healthy?"While coconut oil isn't a superfood, it isn't inherently problemati...

Ariana Grande opens up about the Manchester attack in new interview

Grande and many other high profile stars put on a concert, One Love Manchester , following the attack and she completed her global tour. Mental health is so i...

Heavy smoke remains in Yakima Valley, air quality "hazardous"

The Southwest Clean Air Agency and Washington State Department of Ecology have continued an air quality advisory that will remain in effect until noon Wednesd...