Month: April 2013

Are those who have frequent sex happier than others? Are those who have sex more frequently than others happier? A researcher from the University of Colorado-Boulder says yes . Here are the details.

The first woman to receive a uterus from a dead donor is now pregnant, her doctors announced in Turkey. Doctors waited 18 months after Derya Sert’s uterus transplant in August 2011 before they implanted an embryo on April 1 using Sert’s own egg.  Sert, a…        

ROME (Reuters) – Tests on beef products in Italy have found that one in five contain more than 1 percent horse meat, the Italian Health Ministry said on Monday. Italy launched an inspection of the sector in response to the scandal of horse meat in products labeled as beef that has spread across Europe since January, prompting product withdrawals and worrying consumers. Italian police inspected 454 samples of products advertised as beef without any mention of horse meat, and found that 93 tested positive for horse meat traces above 1 percent, which should have been declared, the ministry said. …

Commotio cordis is uncommon, but often fatal; a blow to the chest can cause the heart to go into ventricular fibrillation, stopping blood flow.        

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed worried Monday about the idea of companies patenting genes that can be found inside the human body, as it heard arguments in a case that could profoundly reshape U.S. medical research and the fight against diseases like breast and ovarian cancer.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed worried Monday about the idea of companies patenting genes that can be found inside the human body, as it heard arguments in a case that could profoundly reshape U.S. medical research and the fight against diseases like breast and ovarian cancer.

Taylor Dorman, 16, was playing with classmates during Phys. Ed. class when the incident occurred.        

Mike Tyson answers 6 questions about health