Health

The adoptive parents of an 8-year-old South Carolina boy are suing the Medical University of South Carolina, Greenville Hospital System and the South Carolina Department of Social Services because they say the hospital and DSS acted irresponsibly and inhumanely when they chose the sex assignment of their adopted son and surgically removed his male reproductive ... read more »

The morning after pill, or Plan B pill, which helps to prevent pregnancy if taken shortly after having having sexual intercourse, has been granted new FDA approval to be offered to teenagers as young as 15. Prior to the new FDA ruling, consumers had to prove they were at least 17-years-old or older to buy ... read more »

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued new guidelines for mothers who want to give birth at home, in a controversial effort to make sure those who opt for home birth, do it in the safest way possible. The AAP claims they had no choice but to issue recommendation on standards as the rise ... read more »

Dr. LaMar Habrouck, Illinois State Health Director, has taken to getting his message about vaccination safety by using the media to educate parents on the American Academy of Pediatric’s vaccination schedule. Habrouck spoke to WBBM Radio on Friday, saying that the rise in whooping cough (pertussis) cases in Illinois is largely due to misconceptions and ... read more »

A young Tenn., girl has missed an extraordinary amount of school this year because her elementary school principal keeps sending her home based on allegations that the girl is “emitting a foul odor.” Since the beginning of the 2012-2013 school year, the second grader has been sent home a total of 24 times. The school claims they had no choice as ... read more »

A new U.S. government survey released on Wednesday seeking to assess the rate in which Autism is currently being diagnosed, has revealed that current rates of diagnosis are increasing significantly. However, the study which finds that 1 in 50 U.S. children have Autism, as opposed to an earlier study which put Autism rates at 1 in 88 children, ... read more »

A Republican Texas State Representative has angered many breastfeeding moms after she posted her opposition to a bill which would make it illegal to question or challenge a mother’s right to breastfeed in public or anywhere she chooses. State Rep. Debbie Riddle (R) said in her Facebook page on Tuesday: “Legislative Update – House Bill ... read more »

A 12-year-old Hesperia, Calif. girl is dead after using her family’s air conditioning unit to get high in early March. The act of getting  high from an air conditioner is called “huffing” or “bagging”. The name comes from the process of putting a bag over the air conditioner and then breathing in the collected freon ... read more »

A new study suggests that babies tend to gravitate towards those who like the same things they like and dislike those who are different from them or have different interests. According to Science Daily on Tuesday, a study conducted by Kiley Hamlin, a psychological scientist and professor at the University of British Columbia, had infants ... read more »

Sorry Bloomberg, your argument is invalid — or so a New York State Supreme Court Judge said on Monday about the mayor’s ban on sugary drinks over 16 ounces. NYC Mayor Bloomberg, who had the ban instituted last fall by his health board, an organization Bloomberg allegedly uses to push his health agendas. Although some ... read more »

A 27-year-old naked woman who was holding her naked baby and a hammer, screaming outside her Kelso, Wash. home was restrained by police Monday morning after several neighbors called 911. The woman was apparently screaming out intelligible phrases and words when a neighbor tried to cover her with a blanket. The woman was thrashing around ... read more »

A Johns Hopkins gynecologist killed himself on Feb. 18 after hospital investigators were notified by a staff employee that the doctor may have been filming gynecological exams on a hidden camera. Dr. Nikita Levy, 54, was accused by an employee who became suspicious of a pen he used while examining patients. The pen was reportedly ... read more »

A Toronto, Canada, newborn girl was pronounced dead early Sunday morning after her mother gave birth to her on a frozen sidewalk. The neonate was born with temperatures hovering around 5 degrees Fahrenheit. The baby’s 20-year-old mother went into labor and tried to walk to a nearby hospital but wound up having the baby outside, ... read more »

The results of a coroners report on the death of a 30-year-old New Zealand mother in 2010 are in and apparently the cause of death was death by over-consumption of coca-cola according to BBC News on Tuesday. Natasha Harris, mother of eight, died in 2010 from a condition called hypokalemia which is a lack of ... read more »

A 29-year-old New York mother and her eight-month-old unborn baby died in Maryland on Thursday after the woman underwent a late term abortion. The victim, Jennifer McKenna Morbelli, is believed to have undergone the abortion after she learned her unborn daughter suffered from birth defects, although the exact nature of the defects are not yet ... read more »