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Thinking you sick will make you sick
Medicine - Health

Thinking you sick will make you sick

Reading side effects on the blister pack can make you more susceptible to them, and if you think about death while lying on the operating table, you will easily go to se…

December 14, 2018
Why can parachutes die
Medicine - Health

Why can parachutes die

What makes the skydiving dangerous? Perhaps everyone thought it was a risk of not opening.

December 14, 2018
Threat from 'nutritional deviance'
Medicine - Health

Threat from 'nutritional deviance'

Being sick with anorexia or insensitive eating is the leading cause of death among Italian teenagers, mostly women.

December 14, 2018
Early birth rate increases
Medicine - Health

Early birth rate increases

New government data confirm that the premature birth rate in the United States continues to rise, putting many newborns at risk of death and disability.

December 14, 2018
Cancer: The world's No. 1 killer in 2010
Medicine - Health

Cancer: The world's No. 1 killer in 2010

According to a report from the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on December 9, cancer will overcome heart disease to become the leading killer disease in 2010.

December 14, 2018
The 42-year-old man is cured of AIDS
Medicine - Health

The 42-year-old man is cured of AIDS

For more than a decade of HIV infection, a man seems to have escaped this death 20 months after a bone marrow transplant.

December 14, 2018