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A 49-year-old Toronto-area woman was recently turned away by physicians after complaining of stroke-like symptoms, telling her she was just stressed-out. But when it happened again, she took a selfie video to offer definitive proof.

A boy discovered a mummified corpse hanging by the neck in an empty, dusty house in Dayton, Ohio on Sunday, CNN reported. Neighbors said the house seemed to be abandoned for a while and appeared to have no people living in it, spokesman Ken Betz from the Montgomery County Coroner’s office said The mummified corpse had been rotting in there …

Sitting down for too long increases the risk of certain cancers, as well as heart disease and diabetes, a new analysis suggests. Every extra two hours spent sitting down was associated with an 8% increase in the risk of bowel and a 6% increase in the risk of lung cancer. Even in people with active lifestyles, it appears that those …

A 13-year-old girl declared brain dead after suffering complications from surgery will receive an honorary diploma during her school’s 8th-grade graduation this week. Omari Sealey, the uncle of Jahi McMath, said the girl’s school in Oakland will give the diploma to a family member.

According to a new study, caffeine affects people differently based on their gender. The researchers from the University of Buffalo in New York found that caffeine had a stronger effect on post-pubescent boys than girls.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first US facility that can make cell-culture influenza vaccines, a Novartis plant in Holly Springs, N.C., that has been part of federal government efforts to prepare for a pandemic and to sidestep some limits of egg-based flu vaccine technology.

California health officials say the state is facing an epidemic of whooping cough. There have been over 3,400 reported cases and two deaths from the disease in California in 2014 and those numbers are expected to nearly triple by the end of the year.

Jennifer Aniston is opening up about aging in a new interview, particularly women aging. The former Friends star, who will be seen in the upcoming Horrible Bosses 2, said men’s ages aren’t always mentioned like women’s are.

The controversial singer snapped herself in the mirror, sporting There’s Something About Mary-esque hair. Posing topless in a pair of briefs, the former Disney star left little to the imagination of her 10 million followers.

If you spend a lot of time in front of a computer screen, and you thought you had dry eye disease because ot a lack of tear production, you may have been misdiagnosed yourself. A new study published by Japanese researchers in JAMA Ophthalmology found people who spend long hours in front of computer monitors exhibit eye secretion changes. These …

Their nephew is the newest heir to the British throne while their sister will one day be Queen but Pippa and James Middleton didn’t stand out from the crowd in San Diego, California on Saturday. The duo posed alongside their co-cyclists as they prepared to embark on the gruelling Race Across America in aid of charity and, dressed in their …