MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Doctors in Italy have designed a miniature dialysis machine for babies, used for the first time last year...
ABC US News | ABC International News (ABC News) – The USDA is now disclosing the names of some of the retail stores that may have...
(NBC News) – Most women who get both breasts removed to prevent breast cancer don’t need to do it, and are often motivated by fear,...
TUESDAY, May 20, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Older Americans and whites reported less chest pain or discomfort (angina) in the past two decades, but there...
(Business Standard) – Are you a frequent air traveller? Watch out for that armrest! Disease-causing bacteria can live for up to a week on airplane seats,...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A record-high 356 temperatures were tied or broken across the contiguous United States in 2012, marking the...
Special to the NNPA from the San Diego Voice & Viewpoint SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Pastor George A. McKinney and his family were hosting a pool...
(Tech Times) – Pancreatic cancer will become the second deadliest cancer in the United States by 2030 overtaking prostate cancer and breast cancer currently considered as...
(The Washington Post) – Something weird is happening to the country’s premier purveyors of mass-produced hamburger-like substances. First, we have McDonald’s, the Godzilla of fast...
KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Nick Auden didn’t live to see the legislation, but the case of the Denver melanoma patient who died while...
(CBS News) – Just how dangerous is farm work for children? A new report by Human Rights Watch is drawing attention to the fact that children as young...
(Health24.com) – New screening guidelines for lung cancer could save tens of thousands of lives, but the CT scans involved will be costly, a new study has found. Projections...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An international rights group is pushing the federal government and the tobacco industry to take further steps to protect children working...
(Austrian Tribune) – A new study has revealed that breast cancer risk significantly increases due to exposure to everyday chemicals. The study found that vehicles,...
(CBS News) – A new review finds that several drugs can help curb the desire to drink alcohol, but the researchers note that these medications...
(The Health Site) – A recent study found that people who had a certain variant of the longevity gene KLOTHO were likelier to have enhanced...
(Tech Times) – With women rising in power in this new world, it so happens that they are having children at a much older age...
(New York Times) – OTIMATI, South Africa — While around the world a vast majority of AIDS victims are men, Africa has long been the glaring exception: Nearly 60...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — As it stands, Muslim and Jewish families in need might have to choose between following their...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — The relationship between melanin and vitamin D—the nutrient that sunlight provides—may explain why African American, Caribbean,...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Dear Alma, My stepson, who I adore and have known most of his life, is getting married next summer. I love...
(Reuters Health) – Eating more fruits and vegetables may reduce stroke risk by almost a third, according to a fresh look at recent evidence. The results...
(BBC) – Viagra and Cialis, normally used for treating male impotence, could be used to fight a muscle-wasting disorder which affects boys, say US scientists. In...
(NBC Philadelphia) – If you bought mangoes in New Jersey recently, you might want to double-check the label before eating them. Pacific Organic Produce is recalling...
LINDA A. JOHNSON, AP Business Writer TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Germany’s Bayer plans to buy U.S.-based Merck & Co.’s consumer health business, creating a combined medicine...
