Aspirin is best known as an over-the-counter painkiller. But acetylsalicylic acid, as it’s called chemically, has many other health benefits, as well as side effects, in the body that have only become clear in recent years. Here’s what the latest science says about the health…
Author: Tim Edwards
‘Remarkable’ Decline In Fertility Rates
There has been a remarkable global decline in the number of children women are having, say researchers. Their report found fertility rate falls meant nearly half of countries were now facing a “baby bust” – meaning there are insufficient children to maintain their population size….
Fermented Dairy Products Could Cut Heart Disease Risk
Eating fermented dairy products could protect against heart disease, a study has suggested. But consuming a lot of regular dairy products was linked to a heightened chance of developing a cardiovascular condition. Emerging evidence suggests fermented foods have the power to prevent heart disease, but the results…
Man Bleeding From His Eyes Diagnosed With Rare Condition
It sounds like a scary Halloween costume: a man with bloody tears pouring down his face. But for a man in Italy, such tears were the real thing, the result of a rare condition that causes people to cry blood. The 52-year-old man went to an…
Indiana Boy, 2, Loses Limbs To Mystery Bacterial Illness
An Indiana family is learning to cope with their toddler son’s new reality after a mystery illness cost the young boy the lower half of his four limbs. Ashley Cox said she took her son Jeremiah and his siblings to the park in late September,…
Woman’s Allergic Reaction To Penicillin Leaves Her With Horrific Burns
A 29-year-old woman in France said she has learned to accept her body and embrace her new looks after an allergic reaction to medication left her with burns on 90 percent of her skin. Camille Lagier, who underwent a tonsillectomy in September of 2017, said…
Heart Transplant Program Changes Chief After Patient Deaths
A Houston hospital is replacing the surgical director of its renowned heart transplant programs with two veteran transplant surgeons and a veteran transplant program executive after a series of media reports on an unusual number of patient deaths. The move comes after Baylor St. Luke’s…
Florida Child Dies After Contracting Flu, State Health Officials Confirm
The Florida Department of Health is urging residents to get their flu shot after a child who did not receive the vaccine died after contracting the virus, state health officials confirmed to Fox News on Tuesday. Young children, pregnant women, the elderly and those with…