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Girl nearly loses sight from eyeball infection: A teenager has told how she almost lost her eyesight after a parasite grew on her contact lens and began eating through her cornea. Ashley Hyde had to endure a procedure where an…
So where is the deadly virus vial right now? A vial containing a potentially harmful virus has gone missing from a laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston Chronicle reported. The missing vial that contains less than a…
According to a new study from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, there are seven steps to a healthy heart. These “Life’s Simple 7” can greatly reduce the risk of getting cancer. Results of the study showed that following four…
Medical alert bracelets are used to help other people in the medical field to understand what is going on if a person is found unconscious or unable to communicate. Find out how medical alert bracelets can identify allergies, disease processes…
The proliferation of drug resistant diseases is as grave a national security threat as a major terrorist attack or global warming and should be added to the national risk register, England’s senior medical officer warns. The Chief Medical Officer for…
Tuna Recall Expanded. Bumble Bee Foods, LLC, is expanding a voluntary recall on specific codes of 5-ounce Chunk White Albacore and Chunk Light Tuna products. The recall has been issued because the products do not meet the company’s standards for…
Drug-resistant germs called carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, are on the rise and have become more resistant to last-resort antibiotics during the past decade, according to a new CDC Vital Signs report. These bacteria are causing more hospitalized patients to get…
A study has linked vitamin D deficiency with an increased risk for cancer and autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis MS, and lupus. Researchers found, through mapping vitamin D receptor binding throughout the human genome, that vitamin D deficiency is…
In a recent study published early March 2013 online Monday by the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers conducted a randomized trial of the Mediterranean diet pattern for the primary prevention of cardiovascular events. They designed a randomized trial to…
Teen inventors want mutant mosquitoes to carry vaccines. For most of us, when we hear the word ‘mosquitoes’, we just think of their bites. Provita Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company run entirely by high school students, is in the process of…