Tag: Medical Conditions

“All those years I’ve been in diagnostic imaging, I had never heard the word BRCA before,” Knowles says. That pushed him to look into his family history. Knowles knew that his mom and aunt had died of breast cancer, but he also learned that his great aunt died of it as well, and four of

Doctors believe one rare gastrointestinal condition might be going undiagnosed among patients. Auto-brewery syndrome — which causes someone to become drunk without consuming alcohol due to excessive fermentation in the gut — caused trouble in the life of one otherwise-healthy 46-year-old man, the subject of a recent case study. While it’s normal for the body

Weeks after visiting a North Carolina water park, a man has died from a brain-eating amoeba, leading people to question the safety of the popular summertime activity. Eddie Gray spent July 12 at Fantasy Lake water park in Cumberland County, North Carolina with his church mission group. North Carolina health officials believe that he contracted

A North Carolina woman who was given a week to live after being diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor says a new drug is the reason she’s still alive eight months later. Amanda Thomas, 30, wasn’t feeling well after a minor car wreck last November, and her mom worried she might have a concussion. But

There is no scientific link between vaccines and autism, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Measles cases spiked 30 percent over the last year due to poor vaccination rates, the World Health Organization said Thursday. Experts say that people who skip vaccination — due to vaccine fearmongering, poor health systems and laziness — are

Bob Barker, 94, was hospitalized on Sunday for severe back pain for the second time in two months. The former Price is Right host was taken by ambulance from his Hollywood Hills home to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his rep tells PEOPLE. “He’s alert, awake and resting comfortably,” Barker’s rep said. The longtime

Amy Schumer is thrilled to be pregnant with her first child, but she isn’t loving the severe morning sickness that landed her in the hospital. The actress and comedian, 37, was forced to cancel her the Dallas stop on her standup tour yesterday, explaining to fans that she has hyperemesis gravidarum, the same pregnancy side effect