Finally, UAB Assistant Professor of Medicine Amy LeJuene, M.D., provided the first glimpse into Harvard's problem, and it changed - and saved - her life. A chest X-ray revealed a tumor the size of a football, and LeJuene immediately referred her to the Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Jamelle Agbuis May 28, 2012
Even after weight loss, obese people may not be able to escape from the painful stigma of obesity, a new study led by a UH Mānoa researcher has found.
Jamelle Agbuis May 28, 2012
A former Florida resident who now lives in Peru recently filed a lawsuit against a doctor whose negligence, he says, resulted in his penis being completely eaten by flesh-eating bacteria.
Jamelle Agbuis May 28, 2012
The Caterpillar got down off the mushroom ... remarking as it went, 'One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.' -Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
Jamelle Agbuis May 28, 2012
An Ernst & Young study has estimated the cost of underproductivity of Australian workers at over $41 billion a year in salaries alone.
Vittorio Hernandez May 28, 2012
The Australian government vowed to repeal efforts by giant tobacco firms to frustrate its aim of further limiting the flow of cigarette products in the country.
Erik Pineda May 24, 2012
Autism was once thought to be a psychological disorder because of the lack of eye contact that is hallmark in the child with autism.
Jamelle Agbuis May 24, 2012
The simple art of folding a bed sheet could encourage the creativity of people living with advanced dementia, researchers have found.
Jamelle Agbuis May 24, 2012
Conventional estimates of dementia incidence in middle-income countries have been too optimistic, suggests one of the largest studies of dementia incidence to date, led by researchers at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry and published online in The Lancet today.
Jamelle Agbuis May 24, 2012
Passive smoking has been blamed by medical experts for the deaths of more than half-a-million around the world and soon enough a big number of the fatalities could include individuals who were inadvertently exposed to second-hand smoke their parents when they were young.
Erik Pineda May 23, 2012
The device could help premature babies learn how to feed.
Jamelle Agbuis May 23, 2012
Children born to women with gluten sensitivity may be at a higher risk of developing schizophrenia or other psychiatric diseases later in life, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Karolinska Institute and Johns Hopkins Children's Center and published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Jamelle Agbuis May 21, 2012
Cancer. Heart disease. High blood pressure. Obesity. Diabetes. Premature aging. What we take for granted as hallmarks of life in the most affluent country on Earth have been popularly linked to everything from genetics to fast food.
Jamelle Agbuis May 21, 2012
Preliminary results from an ongoing, large-scale study by Yale School of Medicine researchers shows that oxytocin — a naturally occurring substance produced in the brain and throughout the body— increased brain function in regions that are known to process social information in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Jamelle Agbuis May 21, 2012
Detoxing in our incredibly polluted environment is not an occasional endeavor. In order to maintain a healthy immune system with a slightly alkaline pH, we need to consider constant slow detoxing to counter the "slow kill" from the myriad toxins pervading every element of our environment.
Jamelle Agbuis May 18, 2012
Hundreds of Alaska Airlines flight attendants have filed a formal complaint about uniforms they suspect might be causing their skin to rash and develop lesions, and their hair to fall out.
Jamelle Agbuis May 18, 2012
There is only one kind of immunity and that is natural immunity which is achieved by battling the infectious diseases itself. Vaccination is merely the artificial triggering of temporary responses to manmade pathogens. Vaccines are both harmful and dangerous and are leading to generations of humans with no natural defenses to disease.
Jamelle Agbuis May 17, 2012
The world's oceans are increasingly becoming dumping grounds for mankind's waste, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the Pacific, where amounts of floating plastic garbage have increased 100-fold.
Jamelle Agbuis May 17, 2012
Cutting the nation's salt intake by three grams a day would prevent an estimated 6,000 deaths a year from heart disease and stroke (1), the National Heart Foundation of Australia said today, World Hypertension Day.
Jamelle Agbuis May 17, 2012
Fifty women who got infected with hepatitis C while being treated at a Melbourne clinic are taking legal action through a class suit against the anesthetist and the operator of the clinic. What is Hepatitis C and how does its symptoms show?
Arlene Paredes May 16, 2012
A 24-year-old woman who fell from a homemade zip line has lost her leg and remains in critical condition after a rare flesh-eating infection fed on her wound. She will also lose her fingers in the next phase of surgery to save her life.
Arlene Paredes May 15, 2012
Half the world's population is at risk for contracting malaria.
Jamelle Agbuis May 14, 2012
Research has long explored the health benefits of marriage for heterosexuals.
Jamelle Agbuis May 14, 2012
Keeping your waist circumference to less than half of your height will increase your life expectancy, according to research being presented today (Saturday 12 May) at the 19th European Congress on Obesity in Lyon.
Jamelle Agbuis May 14, 2012
Dr. Thomas Shea and Dr. Don Gabriel of UNC are co-authors of the study, which offers promising news about a new long-term therapy, lenalidomide, that can be used after transplantation to slow down the progression of the disease.
Jamelle Agbuis May 14, 2012
The right food choices can greatly increase the odds of beating cancer. Fortunately, nature offers a multitude of foods which have great cancer fighting and immune boosting properties.
Jamelle Agbuis May 14, 2012
Ever since Beyonce Knowles was associated with the Lemon Detox diet, there has been a surge of interest in this particular program.
Jamelle Agbuis May 14, 2012
Scarlett Johansson worked hard to slim down to be able to look good in bodysuit that was required for her role as the “Black Widow.” What did she do to slim down fast in two months time? Her trainer Bobby Storms reveals how.
Czarina Malleta May 14, 2012
Neuroscientist Patrik Verstreken, associated with VIB and KU Leuven, succeeded in undoing the effect of one of the genetic defects that leads to Parkinson's using vitamin K2. His discovery gives hope to Parkinson's patients.
Jamelle Agbuis May 14, 2012
Findings Reveal Racial Disparities in Pre-Hospital Care for Nation's Leading Killer
Jamelle Agbuis May 14, 2012
