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Tetra Images/Getty Images About one-third of people who experience stroke are between the ages of 20-64, according to a new study. Strokes are increasingly hitting younger people and the incidence of the crippling condition worldwide could double by 2030, warns the first global analysis of the problem. Though the chances of a stroke jump dramatically with age, the growing number ...

FDA The FDA and other agencies warn against novelty contact lenses for Halloween. If lenses aren’t the right size or are improperly cleaned, they can cause eye infections and loss of vision.  Those vampire contact lenses that you bought to complete your Halloween costume may be even scarier than you think. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other agencies ...

AP/Johns Hopkins Medicine Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins’ Children’s Center in Baltimore is the author of a new study investigating the case of a girl, now 3, who was infected in the womb with HIV. Doctors now have convincing evidence that they put HIV into remission, hopefully for good, in a Mississippi baby born with the AIDS virus — ...

Google Doctors say it’s especially surprising that the patient woke without any brain damage. A Colombian man thought fatally stabbed in the heart shocked doctors when he woke up 45 minutes later. The 39-year-old, who has not been named, was brought into Kennedy Hospital in Bogota after suffering the stab wound. RELATED: OHIO MAN DIES FOR 45 MINUTES, THEN COMES ...

Reser’s Fine Foods Reser’s Fine Foods of Beaverton, Oregon is recalling approximately 109,000 cases of refrigerated ready-to-eat products because it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Reser’s Fine Foods in Topeka, Kan., is recalling about 22,800 pounds of potentially bacteria-tainted chicken, ham and beef products. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Tuesday that the meat ...

thisismamming.com Forget planking — the latest craze is ‘mamming,’ in which women put their breasts on random objects. Planking and owling are so over. Mamming is the hot new craze sweeping the Web, where women (and some men) take pictures of themselves after putting their breasts down on random objects. thisismamming.com But mamming has another purpose: encouraging women to get ...

Dartmouth Hitchcock via YouTube He’s got the eye of the tiger! A little boy with cancer roars during CHaD’s viral lip-dub video. Katy Perry isn’t the only one “roaring” these days. Brave kids from the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock proved that they, too, had the guts to roar like lions at the disease that is threatening to swallow up their ...

Evok20 A new study suggests that domestic activities such as gardening and cleaning don’t really make for much of a workout. If you count housework as exercise, you may need to rethink this, experts suggest. A new British study published October 18 in the BMC Public Health journal finds that gardening, DIY, vacuuming and cleaning shouldn’t count toward your 150-minute ...

Marco Garcia/AP Gordon Ramsay readies his bike before the start of the Ironman World Championship Triathlon on Oct. 12 in Kona, Hawaii. Star chef Gordon Ramsay traded fatty foods for green shakes and farmer’s market veggies, dropping about 30 pounds while training for his first-ever triathlon. “I look like a bloody piece of asparagus!” Ramsay says of his new physique ...

Fuse/Getty Images More moms are going online to find and donate breast milk, but sharing milk with strangers carries risks, according to a new study that found a high prevalence of disease-causing bacteria in milk purchased online. With the message that “breast is best” heard loud and clear, thousands of moms are taking to the Internet to seek donated breast ...