by Research Team | Dec 14, 2015 | Health News
When the tiny girl was born on May 25, 2012, she weighed 3 pounds, 6 ounces, measured 19 inches long – and was missing most of her brain and skull. “I hoped that when she was born she would be perfect and nothing would be wrong,” recalled Garcia, 26,...
by Research Team | Dec 14, 2015 | Health News
Irwin Weiner felt so good after heart surgery a few weeks before turning 90 that he stopped for a pastrami sandwich on the way home from the hospital. Dorothy Lipkin danced after getting a new hip at age 91. And at 94, William Gandin drives himself to the hospital for...
by Research Team | Dec 14, 2015 | Health News
Did you know between 3,000 and 50,000 people die from the flu each year in the United States? There are four key things you can do to protect yourself and your loved ones, say the experts: avoid people who are sick; get the vaccine early in the flu season; try not to...
by Research Team | Dec 14, 2015 | Health News
The city’s Board of Health is scheduled to vote Thursday on Mayor Marty Walsh’s proposal to increase the legal age for purchasing tobacco products from 18 to 21. If approved, the new rules would take effect early in 2016. A coalition of retailers,...
by Research Team | Dec 14, 2015 | Health News
The company that makes Nurofen painkillers has admitted to peddling identical products that were marketed to treat specific types of pain, and for almost double the price. The Federal Court has ruled that Reckitt Benckiser misled Australian consumers after...
by Research Team | Dec 14, 2015 | Health News
Rising premiums and shaken faith among insurers have cast a cloud over sign-up season for President Barack Obama’s health care law, and now it’s crunch time again. Tuesday is the deadline for millions of uninsured procrastinators to sign up in time for...
