After successfully fighting breast cancer five years ago, Good Morning America's Robin Roberts is now contending with a new health emergency: she's been diagnosed with Myelodysplastic Syndrome or MDS. MDS is a rare blood disorder that usually ... Read More...
Legendary Blues singer, Etta James, is in critical condition as declared by her personal physician. Grammy winner influencing the likes of Christina Aguilera and Beyonce Knowles, at the age of 73, is now battling leukemia, dementia and kidney ... Read More...
Public health officials are calmly but vigilantly pursuing a possible new threat to the nation’s blood supply linked to prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome. The virus, dubbed XMRV for the awful-sounding xenotropic murine leukemia ... Read More...
Only 43% of US mothers breast-feed their newborns, which is reflecting on the health of newborns. But if twice as many women breast fed for the first six months, they could improve their newborns' health and prevent "stomach viruses, ear ... Read More...
A study reveals that parents of a cancer-stricken child will ask their physicians to hasten their child’s imminent death. As a result, physicians administer high dosage of morphine painkillers. Most doctors deny that they are voluntarily Dr. ... Read More...
A brave little NYC girl, Jasmina Anema, has lost her battle against NK cell Leukemia. At only six years old, Jasmina had an inspirational story that thousands of New York Daily News readers responded to in order to become bone marrow ... Read More...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 62 year-old NBA Hall of Famer, has developed a rare form of cancer. He is very optimistic that he is able to have the disease under control and lead a healthy life. Last December he was diagnosed with “chronic myeloid ... Read More...
Tell a friend you’re suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and they’ll cluck in sympathy. But a mind reader would hear “Huh? What a hypochondriac!” CFS is often dismissed as the “yuppie flu” and thought of as a mental not ... Read More...
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