Tweens and teens need vaccines too

Tweens and teens need vaccines too

Tweens and teens need vaccines too. If you haven't worried about back-to-school shots since your tween or teen was entering kindergarten, better put vaccines on the to-do list.

Softer beds risky to babies

Softer beds risky to babies

Softer beds risky to babies. Researchers have found that despite warnings, parents are still placing sleeping babies on surfaces that are too soft. According to a recent study, many parents still put fluffy blankets, crib bumpers and even pillows in infants' cribs, which pose a risk to babies, because parents believe babies will sleep better. Each year SIDS kills about 2,500 babies in the United States.

How Did Diseases Get Their Name

How Did Diseases Get Their Name?

Medical illnesses and diseases have a host of names that range from complicated tongue twisters with multiple syllables, like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, to monosyllabic monikers like "the flu." But just where do those names come from, anyway?

Electronic Skin

Electronic 'skin' can monitor your heart

Electronic Skin. Electronic 'skin' can monitor your heart. Hospital monitoring devices are clunky and uncomfortable, with all of their wires and plugs like you'd see with any old machine. Heart disease patients sometimes have to wear monitors for a month or more. But now, a group of researchers is making health care electronics look and feel more like part of your own body.

Ryalu hysterectomy

Ryalu hysterectomy

Ryalu hysterectomy. An man in India complaining of severe stomach pains underwent a hysterectomy after doctors discovered a "full female reproductive system" in his lower abdomen, the Daily Telegraph reported.

U.S. Obesity Epidemic Continues to Spread

U.S. Obesity Epidemic Continues to Spread

U.S. Obesity Epidemic Continues to Spread. A new report outlining how obesity threatens America's future reveals that obesity rates climbed over the past year in 16 states, and not a single state reported a decline in the proportion of excessively overweight residents.