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Hospital: Dozens Of Patients May Have Been Exposed To HIV

More than two dozen patients of a Washington State medical center have been notified that they may have been infected with HIV after being treated with improperly sterilized ultrasound equipment....

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Three 6 Mafia’s Ricky ‘Lord Infamous’ Dunigan Dies At 40

Source: The Hollywood Reporter Lord Infamous, a founding member of Three 6 Mafia, died on Friday evening. He was 40. The artist, whose birth name was Ricky Dunigan, passed away during a visit at his...

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McDonald’s Tells Workers To Avoid Fast Food

Source: Katie Little / The Huffington Post McDonald’s employee resources website is giving out even more odd advice for workers. This time, it’s about the industry it helped make ubiquitous—fast food....

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Time Short To Find New Facility For Brain-Dead Girl

Source: AP / USA Today OAKLAND, Calif.  — The family of a California girl declared brain dead after complications from tonsil surgery was running out of time Sunday to find a new facility to take her...

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California Judge Extends Life Support For Brain-Dead Girl

Source: Doug Stanglin and Michael Winter / USA Today SAN FRANCISCO — Less than an hour before a Monday deadline, a California judge granted a one-week extension of life support for a brain-dead girl...

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Walgreen Offers Month Of Prescriptions To Backlogged Affordable Care Act...

Source: Reuters / Yahoo News  Walgreen Co said on Monday it will provide a month’s supply of certain prescriptions at no upfront cost to U.S. participants who have not yet received a plan...

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Terri Schiavo Family Supporting Jahi McMath’s Fight To Stay Alive

Source: Irving DeJohn / New York Daily News The family of Terri Schiavo has joined the heated battle over whether a California girl declared brain-dead by her doctors is in fact deceased. Officials...

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Judge Orders Talks Between Jahi McMath’s Family, Children’s Hospital Oakland

Source: AP / CBS News OAKLAND, Calif. -- A federal magistrate will meet Friday with lawyers for a California hospital and a 13-year-old California girl declared brain dead after tonsil surgery. The...

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Cheerios Drops Genetically Modified Ingredients

Source: Bruce Horovitz / USA Today Under pressure from consumers and activist groups, General Mills says it will stop using genetically modified ingredients to make its original Cheerios cereal. While...

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Jahi McMath’s Family: We Want To Help The Girl, Not ‘Play God’

Source: Los Angeles Times Two days after an agreement was reached to move 13-year-old Jahi McMath from an Oakland hospital, it remains unclear where the brain-dead girl will end up. An attorney for...

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Supersizing Of Americans Creating Demand For Big Caskets

Source: Aimee Picchi / CBS News As Americans get heavier, the impact is spilling over into the funeral industry, with families needing to spend thousands more on extra-large caskets. The larger-sized...

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Jahi McMath Arrives At Long-Term Care Facility, Says Family

Source: AP / CBS News SAN FRANCISCO – The 13-year-old California girl who was declared brain dead after tonsil surgery has been taken to a facility where her family says they can take care of her. A...

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Texas Mother Dies Days After Flu Diagnosis

The 29-year-old woman who had no known medical conditions had not gotten a flu shot. Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Breaking News from ABC | ABC Sports News

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Affordable Care Acts’s Spanish-Language Website ‘Written In Spanglish’

Source: Evan McMurry / Mediaite CuidadoDeSalud.gov, the Spanish-language version of Healthcare.gov, is “so clunky and full of grammatical mistakes that critics say they must have been...

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Racism Accelerates Aging In African-American Men, New Study Suggests

Source:  Macrina Cooper-White / The Huffington Post Scientists have long known that experiencing racism is bad for your health. In fact,racial discrimination has been linked to depression,...

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Man Left Brain Damaged After Doctor Allegedly Abandons Man’s Open-Heart Surgery

Source: Sydney Lupkin / ABC News Cristobal “Cris” Arteaga had come to terms with the fact that his stepfather, Silvino Perez, had been in a vegetative state for more than a year following complications...

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White House Uses Celebs To Jump-Start Health Exchanges

Source: Kelly Kennedy / USA Today WASHINGTON — After a month of marketing the federal exchange site as “not broken anymore,” the White House has tossed the ball to Magic Johnson and Alonzo Mourning in...

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US Sen. Tom Coburn To Resign After Current Session

Source: Sean Murphy / Yahoo! News OKLAHOMA CITY  — Sen. Tom Coburn has announced he will resign at the end of the current session of Congress, nearly two years before his term is scheduled to end. The...

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Surgeon General: Smoking To Kill 5.6 Million Kids If We Don’t Act Now

Source: Reuters / CBS News CHICAGO – The surgeon general’s latest smoking report warns unless current tobacco use rates fall, another 5.6 million U.S. kids might die prematurely. The report, the first...

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First Lady Michelle Obama Dunks On LeBron James In Let’s Move Promo

First Lady Michelle Obama joins members of the Miami Heat to find out why eating healthy can help you perform like a champion. Learn more at http://www.LetsMove.Gov

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