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Veteran ski patrol member Mike Rhode V was speeding down a snowy slope at Hunter Mountain in New York when his ski unexpectedly popped off. Rhode, then a member of the ski patrol for 13 years, could not regain his balance before...
The number of American women and men having cosmetic chin surgery increased drastically in 2011, according to the American Society of Plastic...
We tend to think of melatonin, often called the "sleep hormone," in terms of-you guessed it-sleep. So what does melatonin...
For most of us, our bodies need a day or two to adjust when we travel across time zones or change the...
In an important first, a new vaccine has been shown to cut the risk of malaria in young African children by about...
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued new guidelines aimed at helping speed up the development of artificial pancreas systems. If...
One of the biggest medical discoveries of the last few decades involves the use of the smallest imaginable particles for treating such...
A 36-year-old husband and father of two children with an inoperable tumor in his trachea (windpipe) has received the world's...
Full-face transplants were once the stuff of science fiction, but not anymore. So far, 18 such transplants have been done worldwide, and...
Research published in The New England Journal of Medicine reported a long-awaited breakthrough in the fight against cancer. Through the use of...
Japan is a country known for its state-of-the art technology and particularly for its preparedness for earthquake damage. Who could have imagined...
The longstanding practice of first giving severely wounded trauma patients intravenous IV) fluids before bringing them to a trauma center may actually...