VEM/FAMEFLYNET PICTURES/VEM/FAMEFLYNET PICTURES British singer Rita Ora was rushed to a Mount Sinai hospital in Miami after collapsing in her makeup trailer. British singer Rita Ora was hospitalized in Miami Monday after collapsing on the set of a photo shoot. The 22-year-old was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital Miami for heat exhaustion and dehydration, the Huffington Post reports. VEM/FAMEFLYNET PICTURES/VEM/FAMEFLYNET ...
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Princeton Univ. will offer students drug not yet approved in U.S. to try and stop meningitis spread
© Eduardo Munoz / Reuters/REUTERS People walk around the Princeton University campus in New Jersey. A meningitis vaccine approved for use in Europe and Australia but not in the United States can be imported to try to stop an outbreak of the disease at Princeton University in New Jersey, federal health officials said. PRINCETON, N.J.— Princeton University officials decided Monday ...
Read More »NYC artist crowdsources funds for reassignment surgery
Marcus Santos /New York Daily News Shakina Nayfack, a performance artist in New York City, is using crowdsourcing website YouCaring.com to raise $ 52,500 for her sex reassignment operation. This Kickstarter-style campaign is actually a kickstart-her campaign. Shakina Nayfack, a transgendered performing artist based in New York City, is using online fund-raising site YouCaring.com to collect $ 52,500 to complete ...
Read More »Newborn twins make a splash during bathtime in adorable video
Rochel Sonia via YouTube A very young pair of French twins, a girl and a boy, locked together in a hug as they are massaged by a French nurse in a baby spa. Days-old twin babies have already become an Internet hit after video emerged of them hugging apparently still unaware that they have been born. The video has already ...
Read More »Daily Checkup: Beating lung cancer
Susan Watts/New York Daily News Dr. Raja Flores says, “Only 15% of lung cancer patients are nonsmokers.” THE SPECIALIST: Dr. Raja Flores As the chief of thoracic surgery at Mount Sinai, Dr. Raja Flores performs 300 to 400 lung cancer surgeries a year. November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. WHO’S AT RISK Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in ...
Read More »Premiums could rise if young Americans don’t enroll
Win McNamee/Getty Images Obama speaks about an administrative fix for some of the problems with the HealthCare.gov. website in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Nov. 14, in Washington, DC. LOS ANGELES — Fears that insurance exchanges that are the linchpin of President Barack Obama‘s federal health care overhaul wouldn’t attract the young, healthy people needed ...
Read More »Might not be MRSA at school, city sez
BSIP/UIG via Getty Images This 2005 scanning electron micrograph sem depicted numerous clumps of Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, commonly referred to by the acronym MRSA. A Westchester Village special-education school may not have been infected with an antibiotic-resistant strain of staph bacteria as initially feared, the city Health Department said. “After hearing reports of a possible MRSA case at ...
Read More »Sharp rise in genital plastic surgeries: study
Paul Harizan/Getty Images Doctors in surgery. There’s been a scary rise in the number of women and teen girls getting unnecessary labiaplasties, researchers said. A shocking number of teen girls and women are undergoing plastic surgery on their vaginas to replicate what they see in pornography, British researchers said. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reported a fivefold increase ...
Read More »Short: Teen saved after stuck retainer reveals cancer
WTXF-TV Allison Magee had a pain in her throat after swallowing part of her retainer, X-rays also revealed she had a cancerous mass on her thyroid. A Pennsylvania girl’s retainer not only gave her a million dollar smile — it saved her life. Allison Magee awoke one day with a pain in her neck. X-rays taken at the emergency room ...
Read More »Healthy baby born to brain-dead mother in Hungary
Media for Medical/UIG via Getty Images A baby (not pictured) was born to a 31-year-old woman after she suffered an aneurysm that left her brain-dead, a Hungarian hospital announced. A baby was born to a brain-dead mother in Hungary after she was kept in a vegetative state for three months – one of few such cases on record, doctors said. ...
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