Life Expectancy of Black Americans
Although black Americans have had a significant increase in life expectancy, most of them die four years earlier than white Americans, according to health officials.
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DNA Helps Avoid Incorrect Cancer Diagnoses
Doctors can now use DNA to help make sure that cancer diagnoses are correct. Approximately 1 out of every 100 cases of cancer diagnoses is incorrect, a positive becomes a negative after it comes back...
Women’s Death in Overdose Increase
At least 42 women die every day from a drug overdose, and almost half of those overdoses are from prescription painkillers.
HealthLaw Will Limit Insurance Prices In 2014
Tightening up the fight to offer the health law, President Barack Obama was expected to give a speech Thursday touting how people purchasing protection in the new online marketplaces this fall will p...
20 Million New STIs Each Year
Each year there are about 20 million new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States that end up costing at least $16 million in direct medical costs, according to the Centers for Dis...
Diabetes Amputations Declining
A new study has found that fewer foot and leg amputations are being done on people with diabetes, even as the number of diabetic people increases.
Flesh Eating Maggots Were Inside Her Head
When she returned from her holiday in Peru, a British woman kept hearing scratching noises inside her head. After she got checked by a doctor, she was told that the noises inside her head were flesh-...
Exercising Safely in a Heat Wave
As the heat wave is starting to come towards the west from the East Coast, it’s important to know how to stay safe while exercising, and how to improve your endurance and exercise in soaring te...
New Discoveries of the H7N9 Bird Flu Virus.
Researchers have found that the one of the five strains of the H7N9 was able to spread and infect 100% through the air. The researchers used ferrets because a flu virus that transmits well between hu...
Dangers of Drinking Diet Soda
A new study has found that diet soda isn’t any better than the regular soda. Instead the new study, conducted by Purdue University, showed that the artificial sweeteners in diet sodas can cause...