Health & Fitness

A toddler in China who was rushed to the hospital with severe stomach pain, high fever and a history of vomiting was revealed to have ingested 36 magnetic balls, which had attached to each other while in her digestive tract and caused two holes in her intestine. The 1-year-old girl, …

Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul said that they will initiate a crackdown on whitening creams that contain more than 1 per cent mercury after December 31. This discovery was made when the ministry checked 59 samples and found 56 of them contained way more than 1pc mercury.Speaking at …

Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul said that they will initiate a crackdown on whitening creams that contain more than 1 per cent mercury after December 31. This discovery was made when the ministry checked 59 samples and found 56 of them contained way more than 1pc mercury.Speaking at …

Adults with clogged arteries carrying blood to the heart may be more prone to cognitive decline than their counterparts without such cardiac problems, a study suggests. This was true whether patients had suffered a heart attack or they had angina, which is the term for chest pains caused by reduced …

We eat millions of apples every year and they are a staple part of a healthy diet. Yet a single apple carries about 100 million bacteria – and most microbes are inside the apple so it won’t matter how much you wash them. The good news is that they are …

The boy was born with much of his skin missing from his neck down but he’s healing with the help of special skin grafts. At less than 8 months old, Ja’bari Gray has spent his entire life so far in the neonatal intensive care unit of a hospital after being …

Arteries carry blood and oxygen to different parts of the body from head all the way down to toes. Healthy arteries to carry that blood and oxygen throughout the body. However, many people develop clogged arteries. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every 40 seconds, …

Britain’s international development minister Rory Stewart called on France and Canada on Monday to offer more help in tackling the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo. Stewart, who visited the Ebola zone earlier this month, told a U.N. meeting that Britain had donated $45 million towards a previous Ebola …

People who drink a lot of sugary drinks have a higher risk of developing cancer, although the evidence cannot establish a direct causal link, researchers said on Thursday. The findings of a large study in France do suggest, however, that limiting intake of sugar-sweetened drinks may help to cut the …

Grapefruit juice prolongs the QT interval and may impose risks for patients with congenital long QT syndrome, recent research carried out by leading medical investigators suggests. The research was published in HeartRhythm, the official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society and the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society. The QT interval is the …