In 2012, doctors had operated on a woman with cervical cancer thinking that more tumors had appeared. Apparently, the doctors mistook her tattoos on a body image scan for secondary tumors.
Your mother was mostly, but not entirely, wrong. Yes, it is possible to catch an infection from a toilet seat in a public bathroom, but the seat is relatively low in risk compared to other surfaces in the bathroom.
Summer is always the best time to enjoy a holiday and spend more time in the beach. But if you’re in Florida, you may want to pay more attention to advisories before wading into the waters.
While MERS is now becoming a deadly disease, it is deadlier for those who already have respiratory issues. But a senior South Korean woman has beaten the odds despite living with asthma.
If you are having a cardiac arrest, your odds of surviving it are doubled if someone near you knows how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). A system that uses cell phones to alert CPR-trained bystanders who are nearby can help make that happen.
In a 12-day period of time in Marion, OH, there were 32 cases of heroin overdose and two fatalities. Emergency services personnel have been dealing with a heroin overdose a day there for the last year.
A woman from India arrived at O’Hare Airport Chicago in early April. She visited relatives by car in three states before being diagnosed with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis or XDR-TB.
The American Medical Association has adopted a policy that will require that all young athletes to have a physician’s written approval before they can return to playing or practicing if they are suspected of having a concussion.
The prevalence of diabetes worldwide has risen by 45% since 1990 as the prevalence of obesity rises, but deaths due to malaria, tuberculosis, and other communicable diseases have declined.
