According to recently published data by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cigarette smoking for adults in the U.S. has dropped be over 3 percent from 20.9 percent in 2005 to 17.8 percent in 2013. This marks the lowest recorded data since the CDC’s National Health Interview Survey started registering it in 1965. […]
A recently published study performed by a team form McGill University shows how obesity can shorten life expectancy by up to 8 years. Healthy lifespan can also be reduced by a whopping two decades of healthy years because of obesity associated diseases like diabetes or heart disease. Professor Steven Grover , M.D. the lead author […]
The wait for the 16GB and 64GB models of the iPhone 6 and 6+ have gone down from several weeks to three to five business days. This is for all three color options, gold, silver and gray offered by the four major mobile service providers, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon. On the other hand, the […]
A recent study by McKinsey Global Institute released to the public this Thursday announced that the cost of obesity on a global scale has just passed the $2 trillion a year mark. This puts it at the same level with alcoholism and just under the cost of smoking. The study classified obesity as part of […]
Governors from states such as New York and New Jersey announced that they will back plans to quarantine all health workers that have returned from Ebola infested countries in West Africa despite being harshly criticized by President Obama and the White House administration. The governors of these states also announced that house quarantine will be […]
The Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut announced that a person who recently traveled to the west African country of Liberia, one of the hardest hit countries by the Ebola epidemic has been admitted this Wednesday with symptoms similar to the deadly virus. Thursday morning, another U.S. hospital, this time the Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida […]
According to close relatives the condition of Teresa Romero Ramos, a Spanish nurse who became the first person to contract Ebola outside of Africa has worsened significantly. This Thursday, her brother Jose Ramon Romero told television crews that were stationed outside Carlos III hospital that his sister’s condition is worse now and that she was […]
A new drug has received approval by the Food and Drug Administration. The drug is a gigantic step forward in cancer treatment and can completely change the way advanced cases of melanoma are being treated. It is name pembrolizumab and was tested on over 600 patients with varying stages of skin cancer. The medical team […]
This Saturday marked another first in the medical field as a Swedish woman became the world’s first womb transplant recipient that gave birth. The doctors that coordinated the birth and transplant said the feat marks a breakthrough as huge numbers of infertile women now have the possibility to give birth. The Swedish woman, who is […]
The board of the IMF approved $129.5 million in funds for three West African countries to aid in their battle with the Ebola epidemic that has claimed hundreds of lives on the Western part of the continent. Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are the three countries who will receive financial assistance from the International Monetary […]
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