This May 17, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) went public with the news that, according to an investigation they carried out back in 2012, over 50% of the public swimming pools in the United States contain traces of poop.
The CDC reached this conclusion following their testing water samples collected... [read more >>] An article published in this week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine documents the case of a woman with a so-called spiraling esophagus.
This 87-year-old woman apparently suffered with a peculiar medical condition that caused her esophagus to change its shape and turn into a corkscrew whe... [read more >>] A team of European researchers writing in a recent issue of The FASEB Journal claim to have figured out why it is that some people's hair turns gray as they age.
The scientists also maintain that their findings will enable them to develop a cure for this condition.
Long story short, it appears that... [read more >>] A team of Italian researchers have just become everybody's favorite people in the whole wide world, all thanks to their announcing that pizza can sometimes be beneficial to one's health.
Not to beat about the bush, these scientists say that, according to their investigations, pizza can help redu... [read more >>] The news that 5 types of fungus have been found in Capri Sun juice drinks is now making headlines.
According to the researchers who made this discovery, none of the 5 types of fungus they have managed to pin down in said popular kids' juice drinks constitutes a major threat to public health.
Thus, ... [read more >>] Professor Scott Napper is now quite the Internet celebrity, all thanks to his announcing that he is planning to conduct a research meant to shed some light on the health benefits of mucophagy.
What makes Scott Napper's endeavor stand out amongst other such scientific projects is something some people... [read more >>] A team of researchers writing in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology argue that, all things considered, people suffering with various medical conditions would be better off were they to take a so-called marijuana pill rather than resort to smoking said medicine.
The pill these researchers are referring to... [read more >>] About two weeks ago, the news that a novel strain of bird flu had made two victims in China made headlines. Recent information on this topic says that the H7N9 avian flu virus is now spreading across the country.
More precisely, it appears that the virus is moving from China's eastern regions towards... [read more >>] A new method of caring for a child shortly after birth seems to be gaining ever more supporters.
The method is known as lotus birth, and refers to the fact that, rather than cutting the umbilical cord immediately after delivery, parents wait for it to detach naturally.
In other words, the kid gets to re... [read more >>] This past April 4, Rich Products Corporation went public with the news that they were to voluntarily recall about 10 million pounds of frozen pizza on account of their being believed to have been contaminated with E. coli O121 (i.e. Escherichia coli O121 bacteria).
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