Health/Science

Say one thing for Kaiden Ramsey Hermosillo. He’s a fighter. Kaiden, just 7 months old, recently became the first infant to undergo a heart transplant at a Phoenix-area hospital. Kaiden is recovering at St. Joseph’s […] […]

(HealthDay News) — The number of circulating tumor cells in the blood of metastatic breast cancer patients directly affects their survival, new research has found. Circulating tumor cells are found in 50 percent to 80 […] […]

Two county hospital workers were placed on paid leave after anonymous complaints that they set up a makeshift beauty salon in an intensive care ward for newborns, authorities said. The two complaints said manicures and […] […]

Federal investigators are looking at a farm in Yuma as a possible source of a widespread E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce, according to the distributor. Freshway Foods of Sidney, Ohio, said Thursday it recalled […] […]

Head of the Sir Victor Sassoon Heart Foundation R.E. Barnes recently revealed that the non-charitable organization is seeing an increasing number of infants under the age of one being diagnosed with heart illnesses. In the […] […]

Morbidly obese patients are causing weighty problems in the operating theatre, anaesthetists say. Obesity has become such a significant health concern in New Zealand and Australia that an entire session of the College of Anaesthetists […] […]

Shawn Mills of Jacksonville Beach, Florida, survived a horrific accident while crossing the street.  He was riding the bus on the way home, and he got to his stop, jumped out of the bus, and crossed […] […]

WASHINGTON–Americans are being “bombarded” with cancer-causing chemicals and radiation and the federal government must do far more to protect them, presidential cancer advisers said on Thursday. Although most experts agree that as many as two-thirds […] […]

JUST two weeks ago, a 10-year-old girl was granted an abortion in Brazil after she was repeatedly raped by her 44-year-old stepfather who eventually impregnated her. Abortion is illegal in that country except where the […] […]

Buggy manufacturer Maclaren has agreed to compensate more than 40 UK children whose fingers were seriously injured in the hinges of its folding pushchairs. Legal firm Russell Jones & Walker said, although refusing to admit […] […]