Leading causes of death in the U.S.: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s …

ATLANTA (AP) – For the first time in 45 years, murder has disappeared from the list of the 15 leading causes of death in the United States, said Wednesday the federal health agency. Homicides down in 2010 so they were evicted from the 15 box for a respiratory ailment called pneumonitis, which mainly...

On the listeria, listeriosis, melons and food security

The outbreak of listeriosis caused by contaminated cantaloupe melon type, which has affected 72 people in recent weeks in the United States has raised concern among farmers, consumers and health organizations in the United States. Wherever you live, learn more about this disease can be fatal so you can...

Parasite infected U.S. blood supply

A parasitic disease transmitted by ticks infected blood supplies in the United States. According to Reuters, there are currently no diagnostic that can detect the ‘Babesiosis’ before people give blood, so the disease is becoming a greater threat to the country’s blood supply. Babesia...

How many sugary beverages you drink each day?

Are you one of those who took at least one soda or sugary drink a day? According to health authorities, more than half of Americans do so. But some people even take more than that. The Associated Press reported that one in twenty people drink the equivalent of more than four cans of soda (12 ounces)...

Is there a relationship between oral sex and oral cancer?

Unfortunately, the answer is yes. In part due to changes in attitudes toward sex, misinformation and false belief that oral sex is safer have succeeded in changing the face of the typical patient with oral cancer: men, elderly, smoker and drinker of alcohol. Today patients are younger, male and female,...