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kcra/tennessean.com Michael Spann has a rare condition that causes him to bleed out of his mouth, eyes and nose.The socially isolated man declined to show his face for a news report. A man in Tennessee is the latest to share his experiences with the mysterious medical condition known as haemolacria, or bloody tears. Michael Spann of Antioch began crying blood ...

Dr. Raymund Yong, an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Mount Sinai, says, “In other parts of the body, tumors can be cut out much more easily, but in the brain, there’s very little margin for error.” THE SPECIALIST: Dr. Raymund Yong An assistant professor of neurosurgery at Mount Sinai, Dr. Raymund Yong sees patients with brain problems ranging from trauma ...

Dewayne Flowers/shutterstock.com Get enough shuteye so your brain can clean itself out, researchers say. WASHINGTON – Like a janitor sweeping the halls after the lights go out, major changes occur in the brain during sleep to flush out waste and ward off disease, researchers said Thursday. The research in the journal Science offers new answers to explain why people spend ...

shutterstock_ivf A new IVF treatment has been found to have twice the success rates as the conventional method, and worked especially well for older women. A new IVF treatment, dubbed mini-IVF, has been found to have twice the success rates as the conventional method, especially for women aged 35-45. Plus the new technique uses fewer drugs and can be done ...

Gastón M. Charles/shutterstock.com Want to ditch your alarm clock for good? One new product claims to wake the sleeper during a period of light sleep to minimize grogginess. A British startup company that offers fitness training plans based on your DNA is launching a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund its latest innovation: a bed scale and tracker. While fans of the ...

Cancer Society of Finland: Tobacco Body The Tobacco Body website takes an interactive look at smoking and nicotine on the body. A Finnish organization has come up with a way to show the harmful effects of tobacco that might make you think twice about lighting up. “Tobacco Body,” created by the Cancer Society of Finland, takes a full-body look at ...

representing Simone Healthcare Development Group An artist’s rendering of the completed Montefiore Riverdale medical center, expected to open summer 2015. The poor get poorer and the rich get more health care. Montefiore Medical Center is poised to open a mega-clinic in wealthy Riverdale, making medical care more convenient to the well heeled even as urban hospitals close throughout the city. ...

Zhiqiang Ou/Getty Images/iStockphoto Ore-uh-oh! Oreo cookies may be as addictive as hard drugs, at least to lab rats, a research team found. That sugar high you experience after noshing on sweets may be more literal than you think. Oreo cookies are just as addictive as drugs, according to new research. In a study of lab rats, Connecticut College scientists found ...

Peter Dazeley/Getty Images Massachusetts had been one of several states in which schools sent so-called ‘fat letters’ to parents of overweight or obese children. The state’s Public Health Council voted Wednesday to end the practice. Massachusetts schools will no longer send letters to parents about the weight of their children after public health officials decided to end the practice, citing ...

2265524729/Shutterstock.com Hyperactivity, conduct issues, problems with peers and emotional difficulties were some of the conditions that were worse for children with irregular bedtimes. Children who go to to bed at irregular hours are more likely to have behavioral problems, according to a study published Monday. The research, which appeared in the U.S. journal Pediatrics, found that lifelong problems could result ...