On September 30, 2006, Amanda De La Garza purchased a cockatiel from a PetSmart store in Corpus Christi, Texas.  She took the little Australian parrot to the home she shared with her father, Joe De La Garza, 63, only to…

When Sabrina Johnson was 6, in 2003, she developed a mild fever her parents treated with three doses of Motrin given over the course of two days.  When the Topanga Canyon, California, child developed a skin rash, her mother gave…

John Turner told his family doctor in the summer of 2006 that he was experiencing chest pains and unexplained weight loss.  Tests were ordered and were interpreted to suggest that Turner, 61, suffered from asbestosis in his right lung and…

An English mother’s anger turned to love at first sight when she gave birth to a son who was born a mere three weeks early, even after she’d undergone an abortion during the eighth week of pregnancy.

You’ve heard it time and again. Somebody tells you that you look just like so and so, and you eek out the standard reply: “Well, they say everyone has a twin.”

Well, if you’re a seemingly normal 9-year-old girl in central…

The findings of a recently conducted study seem to indicate that taking some common over-the-counter (OTC) pain relievers may improve muscle mass when taken during a weight-training program. The study was conducted with the elderly in mind but the beneficial…

That’s according to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, a federally funded, diary-based study of family dynamics conducted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. They’ve been tracking household labor since 1968.

A couple of intriguing theories have emerged following a study into the cost-effectiveness of giving free samples of prescription medications to patients. It seems the free samples are closely linked to some pretty steep out-of-pocket expenses immediately before and after…

Some 2,500 patients enrolled in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study have had their personal medical information compromised due to a stolen laptop computer containing seven years of clinical trial data, including names, birth date, hospital medical record numbers,…

“I’m glad I had a good anesthesiologist.” Brooke Zepp, a 63-year-old cancer patient from Pompano Beach, Florida, is also glad to have had such an outstanding team of transplant surgeons, too.

If you want to lower your blood pressure, then marriage seems to be the way according to a study by Brigham Young University professor Julianne Holt-Lunstad.

It could be possible, according to a study conducted recently by a team of researchers at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Australia. The puzzling findings of this study can be found in the International Journal of Cancer.

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Two incidents on two separate New York campuses point to bacterial meningitis, leading school and public health officials urging any students who might have come in contact with these students to seek immediate preventive antibiotic treatment.

David Paterson is legally blind. He lost most of his eyesight when he was a baby and he contracted an infection which damaged his optic nerve. He doesn’t need a cane or a trained guide dog and he can see…