Could drones replace the ambulance for cardiac arrest victims?
The best medicine for a person who goes into sudden cardiac arrest is an electric shock. That jolt temporarily stops the heart, along with its rapid or erratic beat. When...
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Chocolate may be good medicine for reducing the risk of an irregular heartbeat, study says
Medical researchers have identified a compound that may reduce your risk of a dangerous type of heart rhythm that can lead to strokes, dementia, heart failure and early death. In...
Pediatricians to parents: Stop feeding your kid juice
The American Academy of Pediatrics has some new advice about juice: Kids should resist the urge to drink it. If you're craving something fruity and refreshing, try eating a piece...
To live a long life in America, it helps to be born in the right county
A child born in the United States in 2014 can expect to live 79.1 years, on average. But that figure doesn’t apply equally to all kids across the country. For...
Seven events that will rock the science world in 2017
Science never ceases to surprise us. In a year jampacked with discoveries, some of the biggest revelations of 2016 seemed to come from out of the blue. Just a few...
Teen birth rate in rural America nearly two-thirds higher than in urban America, CDC says
The teen birth rate in America's small towns is 63% higher than in its biggest cities, a new government report reveals. In 2015, there were 18.9 births for every 1,000...
Researchers strengthen link between Zika and microcephaly
A first-of-its-kind study is strengthening the case that Zika is the culprit behind Brazil's mysterious surge in babies born with microcephaly. Preliminary results from a study commissioned by the Brazilian...
In many states, some groups of Americans, cancer is now the No. 1 killer
Cancer has surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death in 22 states, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That total is...
Laziness and lack of sleep can shorten life, especially when combined, study says
You already know that smoking is bad for you and that drinking too much alcohol may shorten your life. Now a new study says that spending too much time in...
DNA from Inca boy sacrificed 500 years ago shows how humans spread to South America
It sounds like something straight out of a "Hunger Games" novel: The rulers of a sprawling empire select beautiful children from throughout their vast territories and kill them in a...