WHEN Tamara Bright began suffering severe headaches and balance issues, her GP initially blamed her contraception. It wasn’t ...

Facial paralysis during pregnancy can be a surprising and worrying occurrence, often appearing suddenly and causing weakness or loss of movement on one side of the face. This article examines the ...

Cerebral Palsy Foundation, a global nonprofit foundation dedicated to improving the lives of people with cerebral palsy, visits the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square to honor World Cerebral Palsy Day ...

Globally, sepsis infection is the leading cause of death in children, taking more than 3.4 million lives per year, according to the Sepsis Alliance — and 85% of these deaths occur before age 5. Sepsis ...

Tears started falling from Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz’s right eye on Saturday morning, while he was golfing, and it wasn’t because he was upset about a bad shot. He thought it was related to ...

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz revealed that he has been diagnosed with Bell's Palsy. Poloncarz took time to spread awareness on the disease and its symptoms Six more houses collapsed into the ...

Actor Lauren Weedman has depended on her lovely, expressive face to make a living in Hollywood for more than three decades. Weedman cracked audiences up in projects including “Date Night,” “Looking,” ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Imagine suddenly becoming allergic to a hamburger—or a steak or bacon or even certain cosmetics and medications. It’s ...

September is Sepsis Awareness Month, and MedStar Health in Maryland reports that too many still don't know about it and its symptoms. Nearly half of adults either have no idea what sepsis is or have ...

Black pepper is a favored spice for many people. It’s included in numerous recipes and manufactured foods, making it difficult to avoid. This spice is harvested from peppercorns, the dried berries ...

For those with severe food allergies, just one morsel of the wrong thing can lead to a life-threatening reaction. A new understanding of how this begins could lead to better treatments, a study claims ...