Concussions in child, teen sports sending more young athletes to ER.



Sport - People - Training - Youth and High School - Family

Cancer patient survives 31 grueling days in radiation treatment similar to what "Wall Street" actor has already begun.



Cancer - Health - Head and neck cancer - Conditions and Diseases - Organizations

A nurse was reunited with the father she had never met after a chance bedside encounter at a New York hospital for the terminally ill.



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Researchers have published a case report involving a 67-year-old man admitted to a hospital in March after spending eight days suffering from fever, shortness of breath and confusion. Doctors diagnosed pneumonia, but were at a loss to find the underlying cause, according to the report this week in The Lancet.



Pneumonia - Infectious disease - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Bacterial

Discovery Channel gunman James Lee's actions and the contents of the manifesto he is believed to have written lead mental health experts to believe he possibly lived with paranoid schizophrenia.



Schizophrenia - Mental health - Health - Disorders - Paranoia

Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read.

Tests on a type of breast implant filled with an unapproved gel have shown no evidence they are unsafe, UK experts say.

Gardeners are being warned about the risk of Legionnaire's disease from compost after a pensioner developed the disease after handling compost.

British scientists say they are closer to knowing why older women trying to fall pregnant are more likely to produce abnormal eggs.

Long-term use of bone-strengthening drugs may boost the risk of oesophageal cancer, a study suggests.

Alcohol consumption has fallen faster than ever, figures from the British Beer and Pub Association suggest.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, previewing a big push on the U.S. economy next week, on Saturday defended policies that he said "have stopped the bleeding" and put the middle class on the road to recovery.

HALIFAX, Canada (Reuters) - Hurricane Earl made landfall in Canada on Saturday and fizzled after a series of scares along the U.S. East Coast, flooding roads, felling trees and cutting power to tens of thousands in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia.

NEW YORK/DETROIT (Reuters) - The U.S. government is likely to take a loss on General Motors Co in the first offering of the automaker's stock, six people familiar with preparations for the landmark IPO said.

PARIS (Reuters) - Tens of thousands protested across France on Saturday against a clampdown on immigrants, launching a week of action over policies on which President Nicolas Sarkozy has staked his political reputation.

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has approved a $690 million payment to French retailer Casino and other owners of a supermarket chain nationalized earlier this year, state media said on Saturday.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities declared an overnight curfew for Saturday after a major earthquake hit New Zealand's second biggest city, Christchurch, bringing down power lines and bridges and wrecking roads and building facades.

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West Nile Virus has killed 15 people in northern Greece and sickened 158 others, the Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday.

For women carrying multiple fetuses, a medical argument for reducing that number is clear. But the decision isn't always clear-cut.

I come from a small-ish town in Oklahoma where we've never met a vegetable we couldn't fry and the only things more super-sized than our portions are the huge church complexes that alternate with fast-food restaurants along our roads.

All those late nights spent trolling Facebook, texting friends, and cramming for tests may be taking a toll on teenagers' diets, a new study suggests.

He's designed everything from upscale hotels and restaurants to the sets for Broadway plays and the Academy Awards ceremony.

The health of 33 trapped Chilean miners is authorities' top priority as crews this week began drilling in an effort to free them.

Ardi Rizal, from Musi Bayuasin, South Sumatra, Indonesia was smoking two packets of cigarettes per day. He became addicted to nicotine in tobacco after his father had given him a cigarette. According to his parents, his addiction became so bad that he would throw violent tantrums if they did not give him a cigarette. The National Commission for Child Protection, Indonesia, says the boy has quit smoking and no longer asks for or craves cigarettes. He underwent intensive therapy - 1-month rehab - in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital...

U.S. regulators say that genetically engineered salmon as safe to eat as wild Atlantic salmon, after completing a preliminary analysis. Aqua Bounty Technologies Inc., have genetically modified their salmon so that they eat all year round and grow twice as fast as salmon typically would in their natural environments. Genetically modified (engineered) salmon is an Atlantic salmon...

The Editor-in-Chief of one of the world's most respected medical journals, JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), Catherine D. DeAngelis, M.D., M.P.H., has announced that she will be resigning from her post on June 30th, 2011. Dr. DeAngelis said: All good things must come to an end and so, this must, too. Dr. DeAngelis has told colleagues and staff of her decision to leave after serving as Editor-in-Chief since January 2000. She also oversees the nine Archives specialty medical journal publications. Dr...

AVAC issues a call to action to donors, policy-makers, researchers and advocates to ensure that critical follow-up studies to the landmark CAPRISA 004 microbicide trial receive the economic and political support needed to move forward as quickly as possible. The call comes as a group of microbicide and public health experts have agreed upon a plan for further studies, which are expected to cost $100 million over three years, of which only $58 million has been committed. "We have an imperative to learn about the effectiveness of 1 percent tenofovir gel, the product tested in CAPRISA 004...

"The Colorado Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA) strongly disagrees with NPATCH's support for allowing nurses to administer anesthesia without physician supervision. Regrettably, their action was not unexpected. It is disturbing that NPATCH and others would support policies whereby a patient's life-and-death medical decisions would be made by nurses, not doctors. "Medical practice laws in Colorado clearly state that physicians are responsible for anesthesia care, and the Governor's opt-out plan is inconsistent with state law...

The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission (Commission) will host the Third Annual Maryland Stem Cell Research Symposium in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010. The symposium, "Facilitating State and National Collaboration to Advance Groundbreaking Life Science Research," will be held at the NIST main campus in Gaithersburg, Md., and will feature research supported by the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund (MSCRF) and federal agencies in the state of Maryland...

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The recipient of a rare double hand transplant says he feels "fantastic" and can wiggle fingers on both his new hands.

For a second time, an Ohio woman has given birth to a baby who couldn't wait and arrived on the drive to the hospital.

A routine knee operation led to the death of a 45-year-old woman in England after she contracted a rare flesh-eating infection, the Daily Mirror reported.

Stress may make you want to pull out your hair, but those tresses could be the key to measuring just how much stress you're under, according to a new study.

An Ohio coroner says a 7-month-old boy whose heart was being operated on was flushed with alcohol instead of saline and died.

World Health Organization says new test could revolutionize TB care

US physicians are working with Afghan counterparts to improve the country's medical care

Initiative also focused on family planning, programs to fight infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS

Researchers say gel shows promise in reducing the risk of HIV

Amphibians secrete new weapon for drug arsenal

Congress considers enacting new food laws