A quadruple amputee spoke out about his devastating experience with Strep A on Tuesday after cases of the virus started to rise again. Alex Lewis said that he was diagnosed with the condition in 2013 and only given a three percent chance of survival, according to The Sun. The 42-year-old father said that he woke … Read more
She took out the trash-panda. A courageous Connecticut woman is being hailed as “mom of the year” online after heroically rescuing her daughter from a vicious raccoon that latched onto her leg. A video of her deed has amassed 16.6 million views on Twitter as users laud her bravery in the face of a ferocious … Read more
She is beautiful no matter what they say. Lauren Behanna, 27, is keeping her confidence and spreading awareness about her extremely rare condition — despite rude comments from online trolls. The content creator and TikTok star lives in West Virginia with her husband, Cody, and their 7-year-old daughter, Abby, who both constantly remind her that … Read more
They’re potentially prying open pandora’s pox. French scientists have sparked fears of yet another pandemic after reviving a “zombie virus” that had been trapped under a frozen lake in Russia for a record 50,000 years. “The situation would be much more disastrous in the case of plant, animal, or human diseases caused by the revival … Read more
A mother of five is asking parents to keep their sick children at home after a recent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) outbreak infected three of her daughters and led to a frightening hospitalization for one of them. Carmen Bremiller, 27, of Barker, New York — in Broome County — has been caring for her daughters for several … Read more
Cruel strangers compared a baby whose skin turned yellow due to liver problems to “Maggie Simpson.” Baby Camiyah, who was born in desperate need of a liver transplant, was rushed to the hospital when she was just three weeks old when her mother discovered blood in her feces. After running tests on the newborn’s liver, … Read more
The mother of a little girl who is allergic to the sun has revealed what life is like with the debilitating condition. Sophie Gray was just eight weeks old when she was diagnosed with sleep apnea and has been on oxygen since she was born. The now 11-year-old has just been able to go without … Read more
He’s lived a hair-raising life. An Indian teen is opening up about being bullied his entire life due to a rare condition that caused him to sprout “werewolf” fur all over his body. “When I was young, I had people throw stones at me,” Lalit Patidar, 17, told Media Drum World of his thick curly … Read more
Hoppy beers, in moderation, could help to reduce dementia, a study suggests. Researchers from the University of Milano-Bicocca tested four common varieties of hop flower extracts that are found in beer to see how well they would help to prevent brain protein clumping, which can lead to Alzheimer’s. Hop flower extracts are used in all … Read more
Non-stick pots could be releasing millions of tiny plastic particles as users are cooking or washing. In a new study, Australian researchers said that just one surface crack on a Teflon-coated pan could release around 9,100 plastic particles. At a micro-scale, Raman imaging and algorithmic modeling have identified that broken coating may lead to the release … Read more
Rare and odd medical syndromes are hard for many people to understand and are often hard to treat, according to medical experts. Read on to learn more about three unusual and baffling disorders. In these three conditions, sufferers believe they are dead, suffer severe size distortions in their visual perception, or speak in a foreign language and … Read more
Scientists have transplanted human brain cells into the brains of baby rats, where the cells grew and formed connections. It’s part of an effort to better study human brain development and diseases affecting this most complex of organs, which makes us who we are but has long been shrouded in mystery. “Many disorders such as … Read more
A British granny has gone partially blind due to a dangerous amoeba, which worked its way under her reusable contact lens during a shower and started eating away her left eye, a report said. “I do struggle sometimes because my vision on my left side is rubbish, well it’s not there,” Marie Mason, 54, told … Read more
Herpes is a curse to most — but maybe a blessing to some. A new cancer therapy that employs a modified form of the virus to attack tumors has totally cleared a London man’s cancer of the salivary glands. The drug, called RP2, was proven to have promising effects in early clinical trials overseas. Krzysztof … Read more
A 22-year-old Canadian woman struggling with a debilitating case of Lyme disease committed suicide “to free herself from the unbearable pain,” her grieving dad said. “It is with the heaviest of hearts (and still in shock) that I share the tragic news that our sweetheart Amelie (22) took her own life this past Sunday,” Alain … Read more
“Insulin tells the muscles to be a sponge and absorb the glucose in the blood,” said senior study author Steven Malin, an associate professor in the department of kinesiology and health at Rutgers University in New Jersey. “Think about it like water from a water faucet: You turn the water on and a drop touches … Read more
Sign up for the Sleep, But Better newsletter series. Our seven-part guide has helpful hints to achieve better sleep. CNN — If you prefer to go to bed and get up later – a sleep chronotype known as being a night owl – you may be at higher risk for type 2 diabetes and heart … Read more
Photos of Debbie Botzum-Pearson before (left) and after neuromyelitis optica (Courtesy of Debbie Botzum-Pearson). On the morning of Jan. 15, 2022, Debbie Botzum-Pearman, who had been a strong healthy woman for 66 years, woke up paralyzed from the chest down. On Sept. 13, 2022, nearly nine months later, she managed to stand up without assistance … Read more
Summary: Early-to-midlife infections that require hospital care are associated with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease later in life, a new study reports. Source: PLOS Infections treated with specialty hospital care in early- and mid-life are associated with an increased subsequent risk of Alzheimer’s (AD) and Parkinson’s diseases (PD), but not amyotrophic … Read more
Adults with ADHD are at greater risk of developing a range of cardiovascular diseases than those without the condition, according to a large observational study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Örebro University in Sweden. The researchers say the findings, published in the journal World Psychiatry, underscore the need to monitor cardiovascular health in … Read more