Archive for 2016

11-Year-Old Boy Becomes First Child in Country to Undergo Mastectomy

After Lewis Deakin, an 11-year-old boy in the United Kingdom, had several benign tumors grow in the arteries of his chest thanks to a con...

One of the reasons I was reluctant to start fertility treatment—aside from the astronomical costs —was I was afraid what it would mean t...

Dad of Sick Baby Warns of Devastating Consequences of Not Washing Hands A father who “almost lost” his baby daughter to a series of sic...

At his highest weight, Khaled Mohsen Al Shaeri weighed 1,345 lbs. and hadn’t left his bed for three years. In 2013, King Abdullah of Saud...

Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it has received three reports of Galaxy Note 7 battery fires in China and investigated two of them. S...

Researchers are perplexed following the discovery that tuberculosis may not be completely gone in those who are deemed “cured.” A recent ...

Ninety percent of strokes could be prevented, according to a new study. Writing in The Lancet, researchers from Canada's McMaster Un...

New research links alcohol with seven types of cancer. Writing in the journal Addiction , researchers at the University of Otago in New Ze...

Dutch men and Latvian women are the planet's tallest people but Iranian men and South Korean women have grown the fastest in the last c...

As the Zika viral epidemic continues across the Americas, it’s projected that 93.4 million people in total could become infected before the...