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An 10-year-old Ojibwe girl stricken with cancer has refused chemotherapy and opted to rely solely on traditional medicine instead.

The Pentagon has a plan to deal with a zombie apocalypse. Yes, it really does. The document, called CONOP 8888, outlines how the U.S. military and the American people would respond in the event that zombies rise up, according to Foreign Policy magazine. The 2011 U.S. Strategic Command document even reads: “this plan was not actually designed as a joke,” …

The Florida Department of Health has issued a warning regarding chikungunya fever, a viral mosquito-borne disease that has made its way to the Caribbean from Africa, Asia and islands in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific. The Department has confirmed three Florida cases of the fever from people who have recently traveled to the Caribbean. These include a 30-year-old woman …

At a picnic area on the Garden State Parkway, Robert Marshall pulled over shortly after midnight to check a tire on his white Cadillac. He was walking to the rear of the car, he said, when he was struck on the head and knocked unconscious. When he came to, Marshall said, he found his wife, Maria, dead in the front …

In a breakthrough that could offer new hope to people with some kinds of cancer, Mayo Clinic researchers say they managed to wipe out a woman’s cancer with a blast of measles vaccine strong enough to inoculate 10 million people.

A 38-year-old woman on a family trip to the beach was attacked by a shark Thursday morning off Brevard County. Brevard Ocean Rescue officials say the attack happened near Ponce de Leon Park on Melbourne Beach.

Novartis announced that it received a Complete Response Letter from the FDA indicating that the agency will not approve a Biologics License Application for serelaxin for the improvement of acute HF symptoms via reduction of the rate of worsening of HF.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wednesday announced new clinical guidelines that recommend anyone who is at an elevated risk for contracting HIV use the drug Truvada as a preventive measure to help protect themselves from being infected with the virus, which can cause AIDS. The federal health agency recommended the use of Truvada,, an antiretroviral medication that is …

CNN reports that a man from Louisiana claims the famous Zodiac Killer as his father. Gary L. Stewart, the author of a newly published book “The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father and Finding the Zodiac Killer” claimed that during his research he has find a similar resemblance between the two.

The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party is headed for India’s biggest election victory in the last 30 years, clearing the way for its prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, to take charge of the world’s largest democracy. The right-wing Hindu nationalist party will return to its leadership role after 10 years, as the ruling Congress Party conceded defeat Friday.

A new research shows that blood tests during pregnancy can identify the risk of preterm births. In order to develop the test, researchers used microarrays to study various whole blood gene expression linked to spontaneous premature birth within 48 hours in women with premature labor that were admitted to hospital. The team explained that it is an important time frame …