Paediatric and child trauma experts are sounding the alarm that separating migrant children from their parents at the US border can cause serious physical and ...
WASHINGTON — This is what happens inside children when they are forcibly separated from their parents. Their heart rate goes up. Their body releases a flood ...
This is what happens inside children when they are forcibly separated from their parents.Their heart rate goes up. Their body releases a flood of stress ...
The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics getting into the immigration controversy, calling the separation of children from their parents at the border ...
This is what happens inside children when they are forcibly separated from their parents. Their heart rate goes up. Their body releases a flood of stress ...
Though your cancer risk increases with each additional drink, the relationship between mortality and alcohol intake is a bit different, according to a new study.
The science is clear: Drinking too much alcohol is bad for your health, but exactly how low-risk is light drinking? A study published in the journal PLOS Medicine ...
TEETOTALLERS are likely to die earlier than those who enjoy the odd drink, research claims. Drinking up to three glasses of wine or beer a week is linked to the ...
A new pot-based drug to treat seizures is awaiting FDA approval. But some parents who are already using a CBD oil for their children with epilepsy are ...
Some American parents who for years have used cannabis to treat severe forms of epilepsy in their children are feeling more cautious than celebratory as U.S. ...
A British pharmaceutical company is getting closer to a decision on whether the U.S government will approve the first prescription drug derived from the ...
LOS GATOS, Calif. – An ER doctor announcing you're one of the “least sick of all the people” sounds like good news, but in the case of Samuel Bardwell, it was ...
Opioid overdose survivors have an increased risk for death. Whether use of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) after overdose is associated with ...
Patients revived from an opioid overdose who get methadone or Suboxone treatment for addiction afterward are much more likely to be alive a year later, says a ...
An overdose is a wake-up call for many people with addiction. So why aren't patients being offered medications that could keep them from looking for the next ...
An overdose is a wake-up call for many people with addiction. So why aren't patients being offered medications that could keep them from looking for the next ...
Treating opioid overdose survivors with buprenorphine or methadone was linked to a 40% to 60% drop in mortality 1 year later, but the treatments were ...
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Here are the 9 things this top food safety lawyer won't eat at home or in a restaurantNine things this food safety lawyer deems unsafe to eat | Bradenton Herald
When the pre-cut melon salmonella outbreak hit earlier this month, anybody who has had more than a few conversations with food safety attorney Bill Marler ...
The Center for Disease Control said Tuesday there are now 70 cases of people sickened by salmonella in an outbreak linked to precut melons. The CDC and ...
Officials with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and Wisconsin Department of Health Services on Monday, June 18 ...
"The first doctor who saw me told me to go home and die," says a pancreatic cancer survivor who hopes one day no one else will have to hear those words.
Survival rates for the most common type of pancreatic cancer are less than half of what has been believed, a study has found.Only 3 per cent of people with ...
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago recently examined the effects of time-restricted eating, an intermittent fasting diet that limits food ...
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago recently examined the effects of time-restricted eating, an intermittent fasting diet that limits food ...
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago recently examined the effects of time-restricted eating, an intermittent fasting diet that limits food ...
This week I wrote about something with which I have become very familiar: the ketogenic diet. If you're like, "Huh?" you are where I was three months ago, before ...
If you haven't heard about keto, you may be living under a rock. Perhaps you've heard about the ketogenic diet from the newest cookbook table at your local ...
Since losing more than 300 pounds via gastric sleeve surgery and a diet overhaul, all eyes have been on Mama June. The reality star has been open with fans ...
(Reuters Health) - Severe obesity rates have been on the rise nationwide since the turn of the century, disproportionately affecting children and adults in rural ...
Although much has been written about Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, to date there has been no detailed medical discussion of Kennedy's injuries and ...
It was 50 years ago this month that Senator Robert F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin. In what is now the first study of its kind, a team of specialists has ...
Robert F. Kennedy, seen in thought in the cabinet room of the White House, January 1964. The senator was shot by an assassin on June 5, 1968, passing away ...
On June 5 1968, democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy walked out of Embassy Ballroom in Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Within seconds ...
An ER doctor announcing you're one of the "least sick of all the people" sounds like good news, but in the case of Samuel Bardwell, it was a callous statement ...
Giant hogweed, an invasive plant that can produce severe burns and blisters, has been spotted for the first time in Virginia. Mark Sutphin, an agent with Virginia ...
A notoriously tall and toxic plant was found in Virginia last week for the first time, according to plant specialists. “Today I helped ID VA's first giant hogweed ...
BERRYVILLE — A toxic invasive plant has been found on private property east of Berryville, and people are advised to be on the lookout for it, an official with ...
Scientists have for years known that drinking moderately protects the heart, and they are now a step closer to understanding why. Researchers behind a study in ...
For at least 20 years, research has shown that for many people, moderate consumption of alcohol can protect the heart, but the reason for this is poorly ...
DeDe Phillips said she snapped a picture of the bobcat under her SUV. Moments later, the nearly 40-pound bobcat landed on her chest and charged at her face.
“I thought, 'Not today.' There was no way I was going to die,” 46-year-old grandmother DeDe Phillips of Hart County, Georgia, tells the Athens-Banner Herald of ...
The World Health Organization has added "gaming disorder" to its diagnostic handbook, but experts argue that we still don't know enough to claim that gaming ...
The World Health Organization is adding "gaming disorder" to its internationally recognized compendium of medical conditions and diagnoses. But many ...
A California man is the first of hundreds of plaintiffs to see his day in court with Monsanto in a lawsuit alleging that its weed killing product Roundup gave him ...
A towering invasive plant capable of scarring anyone unlucky enough to touch its toxic sap is cropping back up in the U.S. And for the first time ever, it's been ...
For weeks, Robert Emma wondered about the plants growing beside his new house. The flora, as many as 40 discrete plants, was “intimidating,” the amateur ...
Stephanie and Natalie enrolled their older son in sessions at a Brain Balance Achievement Center in the hope that it would help him make friends.Hokyoung Kim for NPR
With 113 locations in the U.S., Brain Balance says its drug-free approach has helped tens of thousands of children. But experts say there's insufficient proof of its ...
Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell was invited by Lewis Katz to the fundraiser he attended in Massachusetts before a plane crash claimed his life.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Monday that he was diagnosed 31/2 years ago with Parkinson's disease, but said he believes that treatment has ...
With one of Pennsylvania's best-known residents having gone public with a 2015 diagnosis Monday, here's a status update on the larger fight against this ...
When Gov. Ed Rendell's learned he had Parkinson's Disease, he worried he'd quickly lose his mobility, having seen his mother struggle with it for the last ...
Doughnuts. Pizza. Mac 'n' cheese. People have jokingly called these foods addictive, but a new study from Yale University indicates that, no seriously, these ...
It may have taken thousands of generations of hunting, gathering, farming and cooking to get here. But in the end, the genius of humankind has combined fats ...
A recent study has come to light which shows that foods that combine fats and carbs appear to send the human brain haywire, creating rewards above and ...
Researchers found that our brain's reward pathways value the combination of fats and carbs so much that we perceive the hybrid mix as having more calories ...
BERLIN: Foods that are rich in both fats and carbohydrates have a particularly strong influence on our brain's reward system, say scientists who explain why we ...
HIGH blood pressure could be treated by changing your diet or exercise plan. You could increase your risk of hypertension symptoms by doing this exercise ...
Hypertension or high blood pressure affects one in eight Indians, but largely remains undetected and exhibits few symptoms. Here are the signs to watch out for ...
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A woman smokes a cigarette on September 6, 2012 in Paris. AFP PHOTO ERIC FEFERBERG (Photo credit should read ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/GettyImages)ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/GettyImages
NEW YORK -- Smoking in the U.S. has hit another all-time low. About 14 percent of U.S adults were smokers last year, down from about 16 percent the year ...
Washington (AFP) - Just 13.9 percent of the US population smokes cigarettes, according to a US government report Tuesday which said the American smoking ...
Smoking in the U.S. has hit another all-time low, according to new government figures, with only around 14 percent of U.S. adults being classified as smokers ...
"Carter is probably one of the most loving children you'll ever meet," Jennifer Sarkar, Carter's mom, told "Good Morning America." "He's very affectionate, he's ...
During a visit to the doctor for chronic pancreatitis in 2016, the gastroenterologist suggested to Jennifer Sarkar that she take her son, Carter, to see a geneticist ...
The parents of a 6-year-old boy who suffers from a debilitating disorder likened to "childhood Alzheimer's" have started a campaign to save their son. "Carter is ...
DEAR CAROLYN: I'm 33 and have dealt with depression on and off since my adolescence. I grew up in a household with every kind of abuse you can think of, ...
With medical evidence to support the effects, it may be high time to experiment (legally, of course) with recreational cannabis to spice things up in the bedroom.
New genetic tools are making it easier and cheaper to engineer viruses and bacteria, and a report commissioned by the Department of Defense has now ranked ...
A study ordered by the US Department of Defense has concluded that new genetic-engineering tools are expanding the range of malicious uses of biology and ...
Fifteen current and former FBI officials have died since 9/11 as a result of illnesses caused by the toxins they inhaled in their work at the attack sites. Nearly two ...
It is believed that 60000 to 70000 9/11 first responders breathed toxins in during rescue and cleanup efforts in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
Buried in a new N.I.H. report are disturbing examples of coordination between scientists and the alcohol industry on a study that could have changed America's ...
A Harvard Medical School professor's study was terminated Friday after the National Institutes of Health found an inappropriate relationship between ...
America's preeminent public-health research agency has rightly canceled a massive study after a newspaper revealed it was fatally compromised by industry ...
People who know Sef Scott know he doesn't normally speak. The 17-year-old from Plano, Texas, has autism, and other than quoting lines from favorite movies, ...
Classmates of Sef Scott had hardly ever heard him speak a word all throughout high school. So it came to a shock to them — as well as his father and relatives ...
People who know Sef Scott know he doesn't normally speak. The 17-year-old from Plano, Texas, has autism, and other than quoting lines from favorite movies, ...
People who know Sef Scott know he doesn't normally speak. The 17-year-old from Plano, Texas, has autism, and other than quoting lines from favorite movies, ...
State officials are now blaming toxoplasmosis, a parasite carried in cat feces, for the deaths of three critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals on Oahu.
LIHUE — Monk seal monitors are keeping a sharp eye on The Garden Island's Hawaiian monk seal population after scientists confirmed toxoplasmosis as the ...
Toxoplasmosis killed three critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals that were found dead in a three-day period last month on Oahu, federal scientists ...
The popularity of the keto diet shouldn't come as a surprise, considering countless people have used it to lose weight and get their blood sugar under control.
As spring's E. coli and salmonella outbreaks faded after causing, respectively, five deaths and a record recall, news of three more foodborne illness outbreaks ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has expanded the recall of a popular Kellogg's cereal after an outbreak of Salmonella in 31 states, including ...
NEW YORK -- A salmonella outbreak stretching from coast to coast has been linked to breakfast cereal. Now, Kellogg's has recalled packages of Honey Smacks.
Once ubiquitous in everything from frozen pizza to coffee creamer to popcorn, artificial trans fats are — as of Monday — banished from U.S. restaurants and ...
For the first time, scientists use the gene-editing tool CRISPR to determine if a heart condition-related genetic variant in a patient poses real risk or not.
When it comes to understanding what makes people tick—and get sick—medical science has long assumed that the bigger the sample of human subjects, the ...
CBS NEWS - HEALTHDAY Overcontrolling moms and dads -- so-called "helicopter" parents -- can stunt their children's emotional development, new research ...
The young children of “helicopter parents” — parents who hover over their toddlers, swooping in constantly to guide the child's play and interactions with others ...
Children with over-controlling parents more likely to struggle in school due to an increase in bad behaviour, a study has found. Researchers at the University of ...
Daily fasting is an effective tool to reduce weight and lower blood pressure, according to a new study that examines the effect of time-restricted eating on weight ...
Daily fasting is an effective tool to reduce weight and lower blood pressure, according to a new study published by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers in ...
Millennials in the UK are on track to be the first generation to be less healthy than their parents by the time they reach middle age, a new report suggests.
Facing a grim medical future, a generation that came of age during one of the worst economic downturns might wind up the first generation to have poorer health ...
Millennials already have it tough with lower wages, less job security, and emotional pressure — and according to a new report from the Health Foundation, they ...
Rice within the octagon in this field is part of an experiment to grow rice under different levels of carbon dioxide.Toshihiro Jasegawa, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization of Japan
As the level of carbon dioxide in the air rises because of human activity, scientists are trying to pin down how plants are affected. There's evidence that it's ...
TINLEY PARK, Ill. -- Health officials are warning residents in the south suburbs to stay away from rabbits. The Illinois State Public Health Laboratory said a dead ...
SPRINGFIELD, IL -- The Illinois Department of Public Health has confirmed a human case of tularemia in Cook County. Also known as "rabbit fever," the Cook ...
Keep Pets On Leashes After Infected Rabbit Found - Tinley Park, IL - A warning to residents was sent Monday after a rabbit found in Tinley Park tested positive ...
SUNNYVALE (KRON) - It's mosquito season in the Bay Area and that means an increase in the spread of West Nile Virus. In the south bay, mosquitos have ...
The City of New Orleans confirmed West Nile Virus was found in at least two mosquitoes collected last week. St. John, Tangipahoa, and St. Tammany parishes ...
The first mosquitoes to test positive for West Nile virus in the Coachella Valley this year were recently discovered in Indian Wells, officials said today.
The first robot-assisted eye surgery trial in humans just published its result. According to the study, the robot was just as effective as human surgeons.
Stress may not just affect the mind, but may actually affect the physical immune system, a new study found. Everyone will experience a significant life stressor at ...
In the midst of the opioid crisis, Boston Medical Center added an intravenous version of Tylenol to its arsenal of drugs for pain management. But IV Tylenol was ...
Post-flight blood clots can catch even seasoned travelers by surprise, as travel writer Lindsey Campbell recently found out. She stretches before flights and ...
As far as bad news goes, finding out you have any kind of vermin living in your house is never cause for celebration. Bedbugs feel more personal, somehow — I ...
14-year-old Olivia Stoy is selling bracelets to cover a bone marrow transplant for cancer treatment. Her insurance declined coverage for the procedure, so she ...
A 14-year-old girl from Indiana is dying from a rare form of cancer, but she has launched a bracelet fundraiser that will help her pay for treatment in hopes of ...
A 14-year-old girl from Indiana is dying from a rare form of cancer, but she has launched a bracelet fundraiser that will help her pay for treatment in hopes of ...
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The study center at the Serenity Mountain adolescent treatment branch of the ReStart internet and video game addiction center in Monroe, Wash.Eirik Johnson for The New York Times
Gaming disorder is being recognized for the first time by the World Health Organization. But of the few treatment options available, most are uninsured and ...
BOSTON (CBS) – It's a question you may have asked yourself when you were younger, or may be asking about your own kids now – how much video game time ...
GENEVA -- The World Health Organization now says video game addiction should be classified as a medical condition. “Gaming Disorder” will now appear in a ...
Starting your day with a therapeutic regimen helps give a *fresh* start, and one such habit can be that of skin care. Your skin will eventually become brighter and ...
Pennsylvania, a state where you can openly carry a gun, is now classifying condoms as "instruments of crime" in their ongoing efforts to arrest and criminalize ...
“It just feels better,” says Lucas, a gay New Yorker who's abandoned condoms since going on PrEP, even after experiencing multiple bouts of gonorrhea and ...
Condoms are now “instruments of crime,” according to the Allegheny County, PA police, which has been using them to charge sex workers with first-degree ...
“King of Condoms” Stanley Ngara during a past HIV/Aids campaign in Nairobi. Ngara says he is not ready to give up his campaign though he admits it has ...
A dad of three has been left paralyzed after he suffered a critical seizure and banged his head on the ground just minutes after he was discharged from the ...
If you are heading to parks or forests in the Netherlands in the coming month, be sure to check yourself for ticks. A record number of bites is expected.
As the summer season sets in, the Northeast is on alert for ticks. The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies recently co-hosted a panel discussion on Lyme.
According to the CDC, bites from ticks, mosquitoes, and fleas are on the rise in the United States—but of those three insects, ticks might be the one to fear...
