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Donna Giustizia is the mother of  a St. Stephen Catholic Elementary School student with a potentially life-threatening anaphylactic allergy. She’s making headlines this week after proposing that the school – located in Vaughan, Ontario – cut down the acorn trees that line the schoolyard because they pose a huge risk to her child. Giustizia is […]

The National Cancer Institute predicts that more than 240,000 U.S. men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year—even more tragic, 28,000 will die of the disease in 2012. The tragedy with the majority of prostate cancer deaths is that most early stage patients don’t even know they have the disease because they don’t show […]

Breast surgeons have revealed a disturbing trend, they’ve linked breast cancer development to young women who tuck their cell phones inside their bras. Breast surgeons Dr. John West and Dr. Lisa Bailey, claim that the link is real and women should be careful of placing cell phones against their skin for long periods of time. […]

A recent study published in Lancet Neurology links high blood pressure with decreased cognitive performance. The study monitored the blood pressure and brains of a group of 579 healthy men and women whose average age was 39 using magnetic resonance imaging. The snapshot of participants were mainly healthy Caucasians, however some were smokers and had […]

A study hailing from Denmark has found that common painkillers may actually protect you from skin cancer. The findings showed that those who regularly took non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (or NSAIDs) like Aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen were less likely to develop certain types of skin cancer—compared to those who seldom took the over-the-counter medications. The study […]