A grandmother in China has discovered the bizarre cause of her 63-year headache: a bullet in her brain. The 77-year-old finally went to see a doctor after suffering persistent headaches since she was a child. Doctors at Shuyang Leniency Hospital sent Jin Guangying for an x-ray to find out the cause. “We were surprised to [...]
Christie Whitman, the former Environmental Protection Agency administrator, agreed to testify before Congress about the government’s handling of air quality and health issues following the Sept. 11 attacks. Whitman’s attorney told Rep. Jerrold Nadler (news, bio, voting record) on Wednesday that she could not testify at a subcommittee hearing because of a pending federal lawsuit [...]
Doctors succeeded in giving independent blood flow to 3-year-old conjoined twins as they prepare for a high-risk procedure to separate them, a doctor said Friday. Tatiana and Anastasia Dogaru underwent another procedure Thursday in which a second coiled wire device was inserted into veins in their brains, which share tissue. The top of Tatiana’s head [...]
Women looking for a simple way to avoid their menstrual period could soon have access the first birth control pill designed to let women suppress monthly bleeding indefinitely. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expect to announce approval Tuesday for Lybrel, a drug from Wyeth which would be the first pill to be taken [...]
A smokeless cannabis-vaporizing device delivers the same level of active therapeutic chemical and produces the same biological effect as smoking cannabis, but without the harmful toxins, according to UCSF researchers. Results of a UCSF study, which focuses on delivery of the active ingredient delta-9-tertrahydrocannibinol, or THC, are reported in the online issue of the journal [...]
A man molests a young woman sitting next to him on a Japanese train, drags her to a restroom and rapes her while she sobs. Some 40 fellow passengers fail to intervene. The case, which came to light with the suspect’s arrest last month, shocked the public and prompted soul-searching in the media, which said [...]
An experiment aimed at finding ways to help astronauts adapt to life on Mars could end up helping insomniacs on Earth, researchers said on Monday. They found that two 45-minute exposures to bright light in the evening could help people adjust to a longer, Martian-style day. During the experiment, they found a wider-than-expected variation in [...]
The numbers are a shock: Almost 1 billion people worldwide have high blood pressure, and over half a billion more will harbor this silent killer by 2025. It’s not just a problem for the ever-fattening Western world. Even in parts of Africa, high blood pressure is becoming common. That translates into millions of deaths from [...]
Doctors Call 30-Year-Old Woman ‘Medical Miracle’ DENVER, Colo. — Miracles do happen. That’s what doctors said about 30-year-old Shannon Malloy. A car crash in Nebraska on Jan. 25 threw Malloy up against the vehicle’s dashboard. In the process, her skull became separated from her spine. The clinical term for her condition is called internal decapitation. [...]
Minnesota would ban smoking in bars, restaurants and other establishments under a bill approved by the Legislature. The bill passed the state House by an 81-48 vote early Saturday, hours after the state Senate approved it 43-21. It now heads to Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who has said he will sign it. Minnesota would become the [...]
