4-month-old needing heart surgery turned away due to travel ban
A 4-month-old was turned away by the United States government just days before her scheduled heart surgery in an Oregon hospital, due to a travel restriction by President Donald Trump placed on citizens of Iran, KPTV reported. According to KPTV, the 4-month-old named Fatemah has a serious heart condition and her family was concerned about the level of care she would receive in Iran. Despite going through a lot of paperwork and getting a visa approved, Fatemah and her parents were denied entry i..>> view originalResearchers: Fast food wrapped in chemically treated paper linked to cancers, thyroid disease
April Stevens , WZZM 12:21 PM. PST February 01, 2017 Researchers found evidence of fluorinated compounds in fast food packaging materials, including hamburger and sandwich wrappers, pastry bags, beverage cups and French fry containers. Hamburger in box, stock image. (Photo: Thinkstock) A recent study has found evidence that Americans may be consuming fast food wrapped in paper treated with chemicals linked to kidney and testicular cancers, thyroid disease, low birth rates ..>> view originalYoung girl diagnosed with 'tree man' syndrome in Bangladesh
Sahana Khatun was admitted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital on Sunday with unusual marks and growths on her face. "She has bark-like warts growing on her chin, nose and ear," Dr. Samanta Lal Sen, chief plastic surgeon at the hospital, told CNN. Sahana first developed the disease eight years ago, when her father found some rashes on her face. Only since last year have the tree-like warts begun sprouting on her face. The symptoms are thought to be that of epidermodysplasia verruciformis, a ra..>> view originalHealth insurers warn of wider defections from ACA marketplaces for 2018
(Jonathan Bachman/Reuters) Leaders for the health insurance industry, state insurance commissioners and brokers warned Wednesday that more health plans almost certainly will defect from Affordable Care Act marketplaces unless Congress and the Trump administration provide some concrete assurances within the next two months. Unless the government promises to continue subsidies and other features of the law for at least another year, some states probably will not have any insurers selling he..>> view originalSmokeless tobacco products voluntarily recalled
MILITARY West Chester company awarded nearly $2B military contract A West Chester company has landed a nearly $2 billion defense contract. CFM International Inc. has been awarded an estimated $1.9 million contract to make F108 replenishment spare parts for the U.S. Air Force and Navy. The work, which is for Defense Logistics Agency Aviation in Richmond, Va., will primarily be completed in Ohio and France. CFM is a 50/50 joint venture between GE Aviation and Safran, and the company is bas..>> view originalTexas Day Care's Note Scolds Parents to 'Get Off Your Phone'
Juliana Farris Mazurkewicz of Texas posted a photo to Facebook on January 27 and claimed it was taken at her daughter's daycare. more +. 0 Shares. Email. It's a photo that has touched a major nerve among parents and has been shared more than 1 million ...>> view originalParalyzed patients communicate thoughts via brain-computer interface
LONDON – Scientists have developed a brain-computer interface that reads the brain's blood oxygen levels and enables communication by deciphering the thoughts of patients who are totally paralyzed and unable to talk. In a trial of the system in four patients with complete locked-in syndrome - incapable of moving even their eyes to communicate - it helped them use their thought waves to respond yes or no to spoken questions. People who are paralyzed except for up and down eye movements and blin..>> view originalTooth infection leads to 26-year-old California dad's death
A California long-haul trucker died early Monday after a tooth infection spread to his lungs, Fox 40 reported. Vadim Kondratyuk Anatoliyevich, 26, was the father of two small children. He started to complain of a toothache a few weeks ago, before a drive to New York. He visited a dentist in Oklahoma and had his tooth cleaned and was prescribed antibiotics. The medication reportedly did little to help the man, and his face began to swell. His brother went out to meet him because he was too wea..>> view originalDonald Trump's Longtime Doctor Says President Takes Hair-Growth Drug
White House officials declined to comment on Wednesday night on the information provided by Dr. Bornstein, and would not say whether he was still Mr. Trump’s physician. The disclosure that Mr. Trump uses a prostate-related drug to maintain growth of his scalp hair, which has not been publicly known, appears to solve a riddle of why Mr. Trump has a very low level of prostate specific antigen, or PSA, a marker for prostate cancer. Mr. Trump takes a small dose of the drug, finasteride, which lower..>> view originalIndian children died after 'eating lychees on empty stomach'
Image copyright AFP/Getty Image caption Lychees contain a toxin that prevents the body from creating glucose US and Indian scientists say a mystery illness that killed more than 100 children a year in northern India was caused by eating lychees on an empty stomach. For more than two decades, apparently healthy children in a region of Bihar suffered sudden seizures and lost consciousness. Almost half died, baffling doctors. New research, published in t..>> view original
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