Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline says it has temporarily discontinued two types of Excedrin items as a precautionary measure. The company has suspended production and distribution of its Excedrin Extra Strength and Excedrin Migraine products, it said. “Through routine quality control and assurance measures, we discovered inconsistencies in how we transfer and weigh ingredients for Excedrin Extra…… MORE
How does your neighborhood rank in terms of opportunity for your child to grow into a healthy, well-educated and employable adult? If you live in one of the thousands of neighborhoods examined in the Child Opportunity Index 2.0, where two-thirds of all American children live, then you can look for yourself. The index, funded by…… MORE
The United States has its first confirmed case of a new virus that appeared in Wuhan, China, last month, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday. The coronavirus has already sickened hundreds and killed six people in Asia. CDC officials said the United States will be more strict about health screenings of…… MORE
Sperm donations from dead men is “ethically permissible,” say doctors seeking to tackle the shortage of living donors in the UK. A study published in the Journal of Medical Ethics Monday proposed that men should be able to “register their desire to donate their sperm after death for use by strangers.” Such a procedure would…… MORE
Governments around the world have always struggled to stop the spread of disease, from the deadly swine flu which struck the globe in 2009, to ongoing attempts to rein in Ebola in West Africa. No health authority has ever tackled the challenge currently faced by China, however, as the country grapples with a new coronavirus…… MORE
The National Institutes of Health is working on a vaccine against the new virus that has infected hundreds and killed four in Asia. “The NIH is in the process of taking the first steps towards the development of a vaccine,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fauci…… MORE
Heart attack survivors who carry extra weight around their belly are at greater risk of another heart attack, new research has found, another reason why measuring your waist may be more important than stepping on the scale. It’s been known for a while that having a pot belly, even if you are slim elsewhere, increases…… MORE
If the weed Twitterverse is to be believed, a lot of marijuana users rely on a nightly puff or two to drift off into la-la land. And surveys of marijuana users show they do indeed rely on the drug for better sleep. Unfortunately, science isn’t quite as convinced about the positive effects of cannabis on…… MORE
“Yup, life’s a tradeoff,” Susan Sarandon tells co-star Julia Roberts while smoking weed in the 1998 tearjerker “Step Mom.” In the film, Sarandon plays a woman dying of cancer while struggling to accept leaving her kids to the much younger, much hipper woman her ex-husband married. “It’s finally legal to smoke dope, but you’ve got…… MORE
A new Chinese coronavirus, a cousin of the SARS virus, has infected more than 200 people since the outbreak began in Wuhan, China, in December. Scientist Leo Poon, who first decoded the virus, thinks it likely started in an animal and spread to humans. “What we know is it causes pneumonia and then doesn’t respond…… MORE
Could a baby be on board? Justin Bieber might be a father soon. His wife, Hailey, is said to be in the early stages of pregnancy. Taylor Swift’s mother, Andrea, has a brain tumor. Taylor says that they aren’t sure of what treatment they are going to choose just yet. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle…
It doesn’t matter who you are, you will embarrass your teenager. Coldplay’s Chris Martin said that he went to see his 15 year-old daughter at work and she was mortified. He says that he was going to buy something but when she saw him in her line she told him to ‘get out.’ He says…