ATLANTA (AP) U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, new government figures show. Though the risk of death is very small, experts believe increasing maternal obesity and a jump in Caesarean sections are partly to blame.
Some numbers crunchers note that a change in how such deaths are reported […]
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Mixing alcohol with energy drinks such as Red Bull is like ‘mixing cocaine with heroin’, a drugs expert had claimed.
Don Serratt, founder of British drug treatment centre Life Works, said mixing extreme quantities of the stimulant caffeine with the depressant alchol was ‘a very dangerous cocktail’.
He was responding to a study which […]
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Earlier this year Peter Duncan, 53, actor, Chief Scout and all-round action man, sat in his doctor’s surgery and was told he needed statins.
The drugs are given […]
By Amy Lennard Goehner
The thing about parenting an autistic child is that it’s easy to forget how unique your universe is. At home, the endless rules and rituals dictated by my 13-year-old son Nate’s disability feel natural. Not easy, but natural.
But when our family goes out for dinner, all hell can, and often […]
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Doctors have pioneered a radical new cancer treatment using mini cell transplants.
The ground-breaking treatment uses stem cells injected into patients from donor blood.
Experts are hailing the procedure as a safer and faster alternative to conventional bone marrow operations.
Trials of the pioneering technique have been carried out by doctors at Barts and […]
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