Health

Reporting from Washington — President Barack Obama today named Dr. Thomas Frieden, currently commissioner of the New York City Health Department, to serve as director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Rich Besser, who has served as an unusually high-profile acting CDC director throughout weeks of government response to the emergence [...]

The ACC’s defensive player of the year, Sandon Mark Herzlich, Jr., revealed officially on Thursday that the battle he is leading right not is not the field as fans would love to hear, but with a terrible disease. Mark has been diagnosed with cancer, the Boston College linebacker suffers from Ewing’s Sarcoma – see below. [...]

Swine flu killed two more people this weekend. It seems that both victims were suffering from other health conditions. The disease was also reported in China as they discovered the first suspected case of H1N1. World Health Organization’s statistics show that the virus affected 29 countries with 4,379 cases reported. In the United States only [...]

Four years ago Connie Culp was a regular resident from Ohio. But all of that changed the day her husband, Thomas Culp, shot her in the face and then tried to kill himself but survived the gunfire. He was sent to prison for seven years but Connie’s face was unrecognizable. She lost her bone structure [...]

Now that the World Health Organization has announced that the swine flu is “cooling down” in Mexico, it appears that is “flaming up” outside the country. A few days ago, it has been reported that a Texas-based woman died of the H1N1 virus, and today a young child died due to the swine flu. The [...]

The World Health Organization reported that the number of confirmed cases of swan flu reached at 1,025 on Monday all over 20 countries. The number of deaths raised as well, as Mexico’s heath minister confirmed a 26th person to have died of swine flu. A Mexican child died outside of Mexico when visiting his relatives [...]

Elisabeth Hasselbeck is the co-host of “The View” and was one of the most loved contestants on Survivor: The Australian Outback. But that is not the main purpose of mentioning her here, it’s her problems and the diet she has been trying for some time now. She realized that she suffers from Celiac Dissease, an [...]

In Mexico, the epicenter of the Swine flu outbreak, the highest point has already been reached and officials are now considering the flu on the downside part of the hill. Mexican health minister Jose Angel Cordova considers that the Swine flu peaked between 23-29 April, and his words were: “The evolution of the epidemic is [...]

It seems that the Swine flu is generating reactions even in the highest political areas. On “Today”, at NBC , vice president of the USA Joe Biden declared: ” I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now. It’s not that it’s going to Mexico, it’s [...]