Michael Douglas claimed he got throat cancer from cunnilingus and the world freaked out. But there's a lot we can learn about HPV, cancer, and health from this conversation, if we stop being so squeamish.
If you think juice is something that comes in orange and apple alone, you are missing out on a whole world of juice. The year 2013 will go down in history as the time of the juiciest juice wars yet. Who will the Next Top Juicer be?
As the weather in New York City creeps back toward summer-like temperatures, a bit of warning: Enjoy it while you can. By the 2080s, Manhattan could see as many as 91 percent more heat-related deaths thanks to global warming.
SARS's cousin, novel coronavirus, has appeared in France without warning. Even more puzzling: the new case appears to have been transmitted to and by a French man returning home from Dubai, where no cases of the disease have even been reported.
The latest in a slow trickle of information from Saudi Arabia brings the mortality rate to 16 deaths among 24 known infections — and not unlike China with its bird flu outbreak, the Saudi government isn't exactly being straightforward about how many people are sick with SARS cousin NCoV. If humans are dying, why don't we know more about how and why?
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder does not look the same in boys and girls. Women with the disorder tend to be less hyperactive and impulsive, more disorganized, scattered, forgetful, and introverted. The misunderstanding stem from the early studies of the disorder which, a research says, "were based on really hyperactive young white boys."
If it seems like more and more kids these days are coming down with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, you're not going crazy. The numbers are through the roof.
An oral surgeon in Tulsa has set off a local health panic after the health department discovered his disgusting office practices may have infected thousands of patients.
Latinos! Kids! Soda! Cue the coverage of government spending in a time of sequester — and possibly some race-baiting photos to accompany said coverage. But let's take a few minutes to study this study with a little pre-emptive explaining.
There's reason to believe that a drug-resistant bacteria could be a "catastrophic" health crisis, especially given the lack of a response plan and especially for older people in the United States. No location is exactly safe, but before you freak out, here's some much needed context.
This past fall, the Army found out the results of a probe meant to determine if psychiatrists were reversing soldiers' PTSD diagnoses to save the government money by denying them medical retirements. Months later, they still don't want anyone knowing what's in those files.
According to the terms of their settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, the makers of Four Loko will have to label cans of their potent product with more alcohol information and make the lids resealable.
The last thing Coca-Cola needs right now, in the middle of their push to brand themselves as a health-conscious company, is someone dying from drinking too much Coke.
If you're eating mixed greens right now, you might want to stop for a second, because news that a fourth of all food-borne illnesses come from leafy vegetables might put a bad taste in your mouth.
Just when it seemed like this year's flu epidemic was finally under control, along comes the CDC with a new plague that's sweeping the nation: the norovirus.
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Just two days after an NFL player with a history of head injuries committed a murder-suicide, a new study was released connecting even more former athletes to a degenerative brain disease that often leads to depression and suicide.
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About 125 million people are at risk of getting sick from toxic pollution says the very first World's Worst Pollution Problems study—the first study to track the global health burden that industrial pollutants have on people.
Your smartphone can do a lot of amazing things. It can call people. It can connect to the Internet. It can enable you to play fun games. It can also attract an ungodly amount of life-threatening germs.
Medical researchers are well on their way to the future with new testing methods that can diagnose a plethora of diseases with just a sample of the patient's breath.
Seven people have died and 91 people have now been diagnosed with the rare form of fungal meningitis that was spread through a steroid for back pain, health officials announced on Saturday.
The Centers for Disease Control and health officials say that the 30-plus people who came down with a rare and deadly form of meningitis are linked by a steroid drug injection for back pain that may have been shipped to as many as 23 states.
Hypochondriacs this one's for you. After discovering a virus from the same family as SARS last week, The World Health Organization has studied the bug, and says that we have nothing to worry about since the virus is basically SARS-lite and can't easily be passed along.
Today, after eight days of chemotherapy, Roberts made another appearance on GMA this time through a video taped from her hospital room, thanking her viewers before her bone marrow transplant this morning.
We've constantly been told that obesity is one of the leading causes of health problems in the United States, today the Wall Street Journal reports on a new wrinkle on that obesity-health connection, as they found that some hospitals don't have equipment strong enough to deal with their injured, obese patients.
Mexico now has eight million fewer chickens clucking around and 66 million more vaccinated birds, and though that major cull and vaccination initiative, prompted by fears of bird flu, might seem really terribly scary, it isn't time to stock up on Tamiflu... yet.
Over a third of women giving birth in the U.S. are having babies they did not plan to have.
The image of a woman drinking is often a reminder of the bad old days when people didn't know better — but new study shows it persists.
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Putting a dog with a baby can do more than just provide good entertainment. (Puppies vs. Babies anyone?) A new study reported in Los Angeles Times found that children who live with pets were on a whole healthier than those that did not.
In this week's Bloomberg Businessweek, Peter Savodnik sheds light on two very profitable and symbiotic American exports in the Middle East: Fast food and bariatric surgery.
File this under your feel-good Friday news: Shortly after officials banned 9-year-old Martha Payne from taking pictures of her sometimes-gross school lunches and posting them on her blog, Scotland's Argyll and Bute Council reversed their decision to censor Payne's photos.
The reduction of the "Double Gulp" from an excessive 64 ounces to a moderate 50 ounces, the company says, isn't because of Bloomberg or his nanny state rules about sodas (not that convenience stores would be affected anyways) or your looming diabetes: it's because no one could fit the massive drinks into their car's cup holders.
"Work" and "exercise" are being combined to a greater and greater degree, as if someone forgot that these are two totally separate things, not meant for combining at all.
Today a science story was born and killed in just hours: this morning science lifted our spirits with this finding that coffee made us live a little longer, Wonkblog's Sarah Kliff gets all smarty pants on us by debunking the finding with this contrarian headline: "No, drinking coffee probably won’t make you live longer."
A new study says that raising the level of HDL, the so-called "good cholesterol," doesn't actually lower your chances of having a heart attack.
Our takeaway from a new study on HPV? We all seem to have forgotten about HPV.
Data released by the World Health Organization brings a new topic to the table of the standard baby conversation in the U.S.A.
Mark Zuckerberg has been an easy target of late--from going rogue to buy Instagram to the constant privacy concerns. But we're going to put our snark aside for a moment and hope his new project aimed at promoting organ donation actually works.
Health officials in Vietnam have international experts for help in identifying a strange illness that has killed 19 people, but so far defies explanation.
Well, this isn't particularly surprising, but at least we have it confirmed in the form of a shiny map. The American South, culinary birthplace of buttermilk biscuits, chicken fried steak, and putting gravy on everything, is also the unhealthy part of our nation, according to one measure in a study published yesterday.
Discovered: Urine isn't sterile, is there a nice gene?, a better way to cool gadgets and there's one good thing about a black fly bite.
Discovered: A link between autism and maternal obesity, computer science confirms Super Mario brothers is hard, a childhood obesity gene, and there's something funky on the sun.
Discovered: Everyone thinks they're skinnier than they are, a big Cystic Fibrosis breakthrough, dialysis isn't very sexy and money, not race, explains gap in life expectancy.
Discovered: There's nasty stuff in our chicken that shouldn't be there, a more sustainable replacement for whale vomit, Florida's pythons are getting hungry and Earth doesn't want humans to get into its copper stash.
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