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Getting enough sleep as a child may be one of the keys to fighting off obesity. Researchers from Mass General Hospital followed more than a thousand children from infancy to age seven. The children were recommended to get anywhere from nine to 12 hours of sleep, depending on age. The study found that those who consistently got less than that …

According to a new research, drinking four glasses of wine during night can pose a serious damage to health. Researchers have said that a single alcohol binge can lead to bacterial leakage from the gut and increase levels of bacterial toxins in the blood. Endotoxins, i.e., increased level of bacterial toxins, damage our immune system. It is present in the …

When porn performer Eden Alexander found herself with medical bills she was unable to pay, her friends did what many people do these days and held a fundraiser on GiveForward, a WePay platform service designed specifically for medical expenses. That all ended on Friday when WePay canceled the fundraiser, citing Alexander’s retweets of messages from supportive porn companies.

Diseases spread throughout the world when people from different regions come into contact with one another via different forms of transportation. For example, cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS) have recently shown up in in the United States after health care workers returned from Saudi Arabia. In a new study, researchers examined the bacteria content on the …

One last meeting of two media titans. Wednesday night Barbara Walters was a guest on the “Late Show.” With both she and David Letterman on the verge of retirement, it was quite a retrospective conversation — and Letterman revealed a regret.

The blonde bombshell is probably known best as CJ Parker in TV’s “Baywatch,” but it seems that actress and former Playboy Bunny Pamela Anderson had more secrets than she let the world in on. In a report by CNN, it was during the launch of her animal rights charity, The Pamela Anderson Foundation, at the Cannes Film Festival, that she …

The recent U.S. foreclosure crisis contributed significantly to the nation’s jump in suicides, independent of other economic factors associated with the Great Recession, according to a study by Dartmouth and Purdue professors. The study is the first to ever show a correlation between foreclosure and suicide rates. The authors analyzed state-level foreclosure and suicide rates from 2005 to 2010. During …

Security camera footage obtained by Defense for Children International Palestine (DCI-Palestine) shows two Palestinian teens being shot and killed during clashes near Ofer military prison in the West Bank city of Beitunia on Thursday 15 May.

A new study suggests pancreatic cancer will become the second leading cause of cancer deaths by the year 2030. Researchers project lung cancer will still top the list, but pancreatic and liver cancers will jump to the second and third spots surpassing breast, prostate and colorectal cancers.

Scientists have launched the world’s biggest investigation into the effects of mobile phones on the developing brains of children. The Study of Cognition, Adolescents and Mobile Phones (Scamp) will focus on mental functions such as memory and attention which continue to develop into the teenage years. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has ranked forward-looking studies of the effects of mobile …

A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that increased physical activity can lower the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus progressing to type 2 diabetes mellitus. A common complication of pregnancy, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as glucose intolerance that occurs or is first recognized during pregnancy. About one third of women of reproductive age with type 2 …