By donating her husband’s skilled hands to an amputee so that he might once again play music and paint, a New Hampshire woman created a fitting legacy for a handy and generous man who never hesitated to help strangers. Jodi Lloyd stayed in the background...
Amid a firestorm of controversy, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation apologized for cutting off funding from Planned Parenthood and vowed to revise its policy that led to that decision. “We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast...
All 11- and 12-year-old boys should be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, according to a statement from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The announcement serves as the official recommendation of the conclusions of a CDC advisory panel vote in October that boys...
Texas Rangers’ outfielder Josh Hamilton, the 2010 American League MVP who has battled alcohol and drug addictions for over a decade, has suffered a relapse with alcohol. ESPN reports that Hamilton, 30, drank alcohol at Sherlock’s Pub and Grill in Dallas on Monday. Teammate Ian...
The sex life of older adults – long ignored and little researched – is getting new attention in the face of some staggering statistics. Rates of sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis have doubled for people in their 50s, 60s and 70s in...
Malaria kills 1.2 million people each year, twice as high as previously reported in 2011, according to new research published in the Lancet. And, while many believe that most malaria death occur in children under 5, the report found 42 percent of all malaria deaths occur in older children and adults.
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