A 47 year old woman from Detroit told doctors that she consumed a pitcher of tea made from 100 to 150 tea bags daily for the past 17 years. The woman said that she had problems with her teeth for the past five years and that she had pain in her lower back, arms, legs […]
Regulations in the manufacture of heart defibrillators will be toughened according to the Food and Drug Administration recently. The decision stemmed from numerous malfunctions and deaths in recent years. The devices, which are used in jolting a weakening heart back to its normal rhythm, are found in numerous places including airports, malls, churches and casinos. […]
Researchers discovered that aside from increasing the risk of developing autism among children of men who are past the age of 50, the same risk is also linked to their grandchildren. Older men have a bigger chance of having autistic grandchildren compared to men who had children while they were in their 20s, the study […]
This week a new study on nutrition and the nutritional value of certain foods showed the effect processed meat and natural red meat consumption can have on our health and life expectancy. One of the most impressive results of the study was that the EU researchers were unable to find any ties between bad health […]
Doctor Yoshihiro Kokubo, chief doctor at the National and Cardiovascular Center in Osaka, is conducting the first large scale test to determine the effect regular consumption of green tea and coffee can have on our health, specifically, on reducing stroke risk. The study was published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association and was […]
The prohibition of medical marijuana dispensaries by Wakefield was struck down by the office of the state attorney general. It indicated that under state law towns cannot ban centers since they can only regulate them. Prohibitions such as these can hinder the reason for the law that allows marijuana to be legally used by patients […]
Health specialists at the Center for Disease Control or CDC have expressed concern over a new virus that has made 14 people sick worldwide and caused eight of them to die. The concerns were expressed even though no cases were signaled in the United States. The virus named hCoV-EMC, seems to cause respiratory illness and […]
A suspected norovirus may have affected over 100 passengers of a cruise ship of the Royal Caribbean International as it returned to port. Following an eleven-night cruise in the Caribbean, the Vision of the Seas went back to Port Everglades in Florida with 105 passengers along with three crew members affected by stomach illness. The […]
The move to legalize marijuana, even for medical use is still strong in the U.S. especially following the success it had in states like Colorado and Washington. The question of how this could be achieved is still on the table especially as federal law prohibits such an initiative. The Cathy Jordan Medical Cannabis Act seems […]
A significant number of people suffer from multiple sclerosis around the world. With the coming of the Multiple Sclerosis Month, the government is set to release a new drug that will reduce the pain of people who suffer from this inflammatory disease. A person with the disease indicated that he lost sight in one eye […]
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