Family blames hospital after mom loses limbs to flesh-eating bacteria following childbirth A Canadian mother has filed a claim against her doctors and the hospital she gave birth in after she lost all four limbs to a flesh-eating bacteria infection and now faces a kidney transplant. Lindsey Hubley, 33, gave […]
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Obesity among all US adults reaches all-time high Obesity among all US adults reaches all-time high:- The United States will not be escaping the obesity epidemic crisis anytime soon: Nearly 40% of adults and 19% of youth are obese, the highest rate the country has ever seen in all adults, […]
How Long Has COPD Been Around? Although humans have likely dealt with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – an incurable and progressive disease that results from damage to the lungs making it progressively more difficult to breathe – for nearly as long as we’ve had lungs, descriptions of the condition didn’t […]
DACA Recipients Cope With Health Challenges in Face of Uncertainty DACA Recipients Cope With Health Challenges in Face of Uncertainty:- Since President Donald Trump announced he was ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Dulce Castro’s heart beats faster whenever she thinks or talks about DACA, which shields from […]
U.S. FDA panel backs Aerie’s glaucoma drug Rhopressa U.S. FDA panel backs Aerie’s glaucoma drug Rhopressa:- Aerie Pharmaceuticals Inc’s experimental glaucoma treatment should be approved, an advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday, after it found the benefits outweigh the risks. The panel voted 9-1 […]
FDA advisers endorse gene therapy to treat form of blindness Cole Carper, an 11-year-old boy who got the therapy when he was 8, describes how sight changed what he knew of the world. When he returned to his home in Little Rock, Arkansas, after treatment, “I looked up and said, […]
Californians Say They Didn’t Receive Emergency Wildfire Alerts When the wildfires in Northern California broke out this week, they spread so fast that many residents were caught off guard. Some told CNN that the smell of smoke or their dogs whimpering were the only warnings they got before the fires […]
Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. adults are now obese, CDC says Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. adults are now obese, CDC says:- A mericans’ obesity rates have reached a new high-water mark. Again. In 2015 and 2016, just short of 4 in 10 American adults had a body mass index […]
FDA advisers urge approval for first gene therapy for inherited disease The company has not provided an estimated cost for the treatment, but it’s likely to be steep. Wall Street analysts are predicting a price of $750,000 to $1 million for both eyes. That could fuel an already heated debate […]
Seniors in Puerto Rico Face Appalling Conditions After Hurricane Maria Seniors in Puerto Rico Face Appalling Conditions After Hurricane Maria:- Heida Stearns Rivera, 81, lives in Vieques, an island municipality off Puerto Rico’s eastern coast. Three weeks after Hurricane Maria’s impact and destruction, she is still struggling. Older adults like […]
