MEDICINE & HEALTHIn the past it has been easy for parents who did not wish to vaccinate their children to obtain an exemption. In many cases it only required the signing of a piece of paper. However, such exclusions may not be so easy to obtain in the future thanks to this year's highly publicized Disneyland measles outbreak.
A stray cat in the Crimean Peninsula cheats death after being stabbed up to 2 inches in the head. Most of us like to think that these things only happen in movies when a person is able to completely recover from a fatal bullet shot to his head.
Married man from Venezuela undergoes extensive face implants, chops off part of his nose to look like the Red Skull from Captain America: The First Avenger.
Feminist blogger aborts baby because it was a male, but claims that she doesn't hate men. A blogger with a pen name "Lana", who proclaims herself as a feminist recently wrote a blog post on Injustice Stories (her own blog) in which she claimed to have an abortion because the fetus was male.
The article is in the science niche. We all now (well, most of us anyway) that infants are prescribed some vaccines in order to protect them from different diseases.
According to a 2010 study from the University of Oxford, big butts result in healthy children because of the high amount of Omega 3 fatty acids (the good fatty acids) stored. These are the same fatty acids that are responsible for the normal development of the baby's brain.n.
Nowadays, the whole world is facing a serious issue of Swine Flu. If you are suffering from a continuous cough and fever, then you might be in doubt whether your body has been attacked by the H1N1 virus or not.
Pharmacyclics will ‘possibly’ be acquired by Johnson & Johnson for $18 Billion Pharmacyclics, the US-based biopharmaceutical organization that develops and commercializes small-molecule drugs for cancer and other diseases, surged to a new high when Bloomberg reported that the company is considering selling itself for $18 billion.
For many years physicians believed chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) to be a complicated psychological disorder and not an actual biological one. However, researchers have now found evidence that chronic fatigue syndrome is a result of immunological dysfunction, meaning that it is, in fact, a biological illness after all.
A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has revealed that the suicide rate of older adults ranging in age between 40 and 64 in the United States has risen by approximately 40% since 1999.
A new, relatively simple treatment has been developed to ease the pain experienced by those who suffer from migraines. The procedure delivers anesthetic lidocaine directly to the nerves in the back of the nasal cavity, and preliminary research indicates it could offer significant pain relief to migraine sufferers.
Health authorities in Florida have reported that three new cases of leprosy have been discovered in Volusia County over the past five months. Physicians believe that two of the patients may have been infected by the disease from the local nine-banded armadillo, which were reported to be the main carriers of the bacteria in the United States.
