6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1370+ words) A lot is riding on the shiny green backs of large red-eyed sterile flies that scientists from the United States, Mexico and Panama have been raising. The US government just released its billionth fly into Texas from a facility that…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (474+ words) LONDON, England (CNN) -- There were 100,000 new cases of swine flu in England last week, nearly double the number from the previous seven days, authorities announced Friday. A person enters a clinic in east London. Children 14 or younger were those predominantly…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (744+ words) (Cooking Light) -- In 2005, the government's revised Dietary Guidelines for Americans introduced the term "nutrient density," which sounds complicated but simply refers to how much nutrition a food provides. Eating foods in a variety of colors will help you achieve a…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (899+ words) Michelle Klawiter was nine days into a course of antibiotics for a sinus infection when the gut pain hit. Bloody diarrhea quickly followed. Taking antibiotics can open opportunity for pathogens to invade the body, requiring probiotics to boost health. The…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (809+ words) ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Steve Karas and Matthew Welling share a special bond. Matthew Welling, left, received a bone marrow transplant from Steve Karas, right. They aren't related. In fact, they had never even met until 3-year-old Matthew needed a life-saving…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (718+ words) (CNN) -- The first swipe of the electric razor exposed a six-inch patch of bare skin on Dr. Craig Castellino's scalp. Within minutes, the pediatric oncologist with the Aflac Cancer Center in Atlanta, Georgia, was bald. Cancer patient Mack Crittenden shaves…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (703+ words) KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Little Banafsha wakes up in her small mud home, has a cup of tea and braces herself for the day ahead. An exhausted Banafsha takes a moment's rest from begging for bread. She is just 11 years old,…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (653+ words) Middle-aged and older women who have migraines with auras -- the flashing lights, a certain smell, or other sights or sounds that can signal oncoming pain -- appear to have a higher risk of strokes and heart attacks than their migraine-free peers,…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (869+ words) (CNN) -- The swine flu outbreak is spawning debate about how people get information during health emergencies -- especially at a time when news sources are becoming less centralized. Buzz about swine flu on Twitter is stirring conversations about how people get…...

8+ mon, 13+ hour ago   (839+ words) VRINDAVAN, India (CNN) -- Ostracized by society, thousands of India's widows flock to the holy city of Vrindavan waiting to die. They are found on side streets, hunched over with walking canes, their heads shaved and their pain etched by hundreds…...