Victorian authorities have issued a public warning about a potentially-deadly and antibiotic-resistant superbug which may be linked to 18 deaths over the past three years. The emerging superbug can kill about half of those who get infected with it.
Severe appendicitis has been treated as a medical emergency for nearly 130 years. But a study has found that many patients can be treated with antibiotics alone.
Individual cases of MERS have occurred in Austria, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, and the United States. These cases were in people who caught the virus in the Middle East and then traveled home before symptoms developed.
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams in Ohio has shut down its production facility and retail locations after finding listeria bacteria again.The company found the problem itself after conducting testing. The company had reopened only a few weeks ago after dealing wit…
Short boys are three times more likely to be treated with human growth hormone than are short girls. This gender inequality may mean that medical problems that are causing growth problems in girls may go untreated. and that some boys are being treated unnecess…
The British High Court has ruled against an unnamed woman who wanted to create her own grandchild by using frozen eggs from her dead daughter. The court decided that it was not clear if her daughter had wanted the eggs to be used in this way.
There is one simple, inexpensive and accessible liquid that children in the United States neglect to consume: water. A new study shows that more than half of children and teenagers in the United States may not be properly hydrated.
If you would want to maximize your weight loss, you might want someone else choose the diet for you. For it to be more effective, you may want to let your doctor choose your diet plan rather than choosing your own, experts say.
This is good news for chocolate lovers. A new study has discovered that devoted consumers of chocolates and those who consume about two candy bars a day are 11% less likely to suffer from heart attacks and strokes and 25% less likely to die of cardiovascular d…
South Koreans are in a state of panic after four new cases were reported as the death toll has already reached 19. Health officials say on Tuesday that the total number of cases has reached 154. MERS-CoV or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome was brought to the c…
Chronic pain is a debilitating condition that predisposes humans to long years of pain. Now, scientists have found a way to reverse the condition as they discovered the molecular pathway for chronic pain in laboratory animals. Thus, it has opened doors and gav…
