Health News Loading the player… Iraq’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that 82 people died and 110 were injured in a catastrophic fire that broke out in the intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital tending to severe coronavirus patients. Negligence on the part of hospital authorities has been blamed for the Saturday night fire, which… Read More »
Warning! Major spoilers ahead for The Good Doctor season three finale. The Good Doctor‘s season three finale aired on Monday. The season ended with the death of Dr. Melendez. Fans are not happy about how his storyline panned out. Network dramas are known for pulling on their viewers’ heartstrings, and ABC shows like Grey’s Anatomy,… Read More »
EXCLUSIVE: Athlete who risked paralysis to have a life-threatening tangle of blood vessels removed from her brain is back to sports after ‘losing all her blood’ during 14-hour surgery Lindsay Vos, 31, of Michigan, suffers from a rare genetic condition known as HHT, which caused a large abnormal tangle of blood vessels to form in… Read More »
A father who almost died a week before his son’s first birthday is urging people to get immunised against flu this winter. Last winter, Adam Blackman did not bother getting the jab and caught influenza. The virus triggered a life-threatening asthma attack. He spent more than a month in hospital recovering. He says he “learned… Read More »
Jen BabakhanDec 07 Jim O’Connell prides himself on being health conscious in every way, so when he received a prostate cancer diagnosis—and the news that it was aggressive—he was shocked Courtesy Jim O’ConnellWhen Jim O’Connell moved to New York City in 1997, he signed up with a new doctor who ordered a basic panel of… Read More »
Heart problems that were “largely preventable” killed around 415,000 Americans in 2016, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says, highlighting the importance of proactive interventions. Under its new Million Hearts campaign, which aims to prevent a million heart attacks and strokes by 2022, the CDC looked at 2016 data and… Read More »