Breast surgeon Ian Paterson is beginning a 15 year prison sentence after being convicted of intentionally wounding patients and carrying out unnecessary operations.
(CNN) Smoking kills 7 million people a year, and it scars the planet through deforestation, pollution and littering. Details of the environmental cost of tobacco are revealed in a study released Wednesday by the World Health Organization, adding to the …
The Kroger Co. has recalled Simple Truth Dry Roasted Macadamia Nuts due to potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Those nuts were sold in Dillons stores in Kansas.
A highly contagious flu that affects dogs has been found in Florida for the first time, according to the University of Florida. The university’s College of Veterinary Medicine has confirmed seven cases of the H3N2 canine influenza, which also is known …
The revolutionary gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 is often described as “molecular scissors” for its ability to turn previously improbable feats of genetic engineering into exercises in cutting and pasting.
VARANASI: After the detection of first cases of Zika virus in Gujarat, the health department in Varanasi has issued an alert suggesting dos and don’ts for preventing and controlling mosquito breeding.
Reading Health System plans to buy five other eastern Pennsylvania hospitals and change the system’s name to Tower Health. The Reading Eagle (http://bit.
Thousands of luminarias with words honoring survivors and loved ones lost to cancer glow by candlelight in the twilight sky as people walk on the track at Century High School in Bismarck in 2015 at the annual American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.
Mental health, or lack thereof, has progressed from a once taboo subject to become part of the zeitgeist. One need look no further than the designation of May as National Mental Health Awareness Month, or the program “13 Reasons Why,” an original show …
New research from Emory University scientists finds that fathers may play favorites when it comes to their children. » RELATED: Dad’s heart-stopping images of his daughter in ‘dangerous situations’ go viral.
MADISON, Wis. – Deaths caused by Alzheimer’s disease climbed 55 percent in the last 15 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
ALBANY – Judges on New York’s top court voiced skepticism Tuesday about establishing a right to physician-assisted suicide while questioning how the state can ban that but allow a person to refuse medical treatment.
Climate change may keep you awake—and not just metaphorically. Nights that are warmer than normal can harm human sleep, researchers show in a new paper, with the poor and elderly most affected.
Adding cannabis to everything from iced coffee to breath mints, local startups are jockeying for a bite of California’s growing marijuana edibles market as the state gears up to allow recreational pot sales.
AMMAN, Jordan – Two senior UN officials on Tuesday warned of the spread of cholera and malnutrition in Yemen, where millions of civilians have been caught in a two-year-old civil war.
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