In the 2014 movie "The Angriest Man in Brooklyn," Henry Altmann (Robin Williams) was able to set his life straight after a doctor mistakenly told him he had 90 minutes to live. Unfortunately that's not the case for the multitude of people who are misdiagnosed annually.
According to a new Institute of Medicine report, "failure to...
When the Borg set its sights on a species for assimilation, they were warned, "Resistance is futile." However in today's world, bacteria's resistance to life-saving antibiotics is anything but futile. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared that antibiotic resistance is one of North America's top five health threats,...
The rotund tenor Luciano Pavarotti once said, "The reason fat people are happy is that their nerves are well protected." As revered as he was, the Italian opera star was way off key when it came to being fat and happy.
As scientists from Ohio State University recently told colleagues at a meeting of the European Pain Federation, as you...