A Missouri VA hospital may be held negligent by allegedly exposing more than 1,800 veterans to malevolent diseases such as hepatitis and HIV.
According to Rep. Russ Carnahan, 1,812 letters are steadily making their way to the homes of veterans in order to inform them of their possible exposure to hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and human [...]

Monday marked the initial baby steps of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) towards acknowledging the basic, but grossly underestimated menace of pumping livestock full of antibiotics. Considering that many current bacterial strains have developed full-on resistance to common antibiotics, it stands to reason that consistent inoculation of the animals used as a food source [...]

Recent studies by researchers from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran may lead to the development of a simple in-house blood test to predict the age of individual women at which menopause may start.
This may even be able to be applied to women in the twenties to aid them in making reproduction [...]

Summer’s peaking its head over the horizon, meaning temperatures are rising and more people are enjoying the great outdoors under the sun’s glaring gaze. Being outdoors and consistently pummeled by the sun’s rays can make you reach for the nearest glass of water, but what you may not know is that [...]

You have been apprehensive about the prospect: Stuffy, runny nose, post-nasal drip and the accompanying raspy throat, perhaps even a cough. And if that’s not bad enough, the weather is thoroughly balmy.
It’s commonly known as a summer cold. But the truth is, it is unlikely that it emerges only in the warm [...]