Former President Jimmy Carter’s announcement that he has cancer has raised more questions than answers – including the type of cancer he has, his treatment options, and if it is life-threatening.
New Jersey health officials have confirmed two human cases of West Nile virus in the state. However, it has been classified as a low risk of the virus by the state Department of Environmental Protection.
The doctors at the University Medical Center Utrecht asked Ambroz Bajec-Lapajne to sing in order to monitor his ability to vocalize and recognize the key change during the brain tumor surgery.
A Palestinian detainee in the ninth week of his hunger strike fell unconscious at an Israeli hospital on Friday in a case that could test Israel’s new force-feeding law.
The N.I.H. authors sought to test a more recent conclusion by Mr. Taubes that “any diet that succeeds does so because the dieter restricts fattening carbohydrates”. The focus turned back on the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which recommended limiting the tippy top...
Flights are being delayed in the Washington region due to technical issues at a Federal Aviation Administration center in Washington. “Flights in and out of the three major D.C.-area airports may be delayed”.
This past week Tech Spot highlighted the findings of a team of researchers from Plymouth University’s Cognition Institute who discovered that even just 3 minutes of playing Tetris can be an effective way of resisting cravings. The weeklong study monitored participants for...
In a review of more than 70 clinical trials involving nearly 7,000 patients, researchers found music to be a powerful analgesic under almost all circumstances.
Jay Z, Timbaland and other representatives of various music agencies will finally come to court to comment on one of the longest-running lawsuits in the United States, questioning the use of a sample in the single “Big Pimpin'”. The record includes a sample of a...
VSV-ZEBOV was originally developed by Canada’s public health agency before being licensed to NewLink Genetics, which then signed a deal handing Merck the responsibility to research, develop, manufacture and distribute it.
It assured the public that the medicines manufactured in the plant, which include inhaled asthma drug Advair, have not been infected with the bacteria, as the cooling tower was a self-standing structure that had no contact with the drugs, Reuters reports.