God Bless You! Idioms for Those With the Cold and Flu Illness

" You wake up on a cold winter's morning and find you're feeling "under the weather." You're sneezing, coughing and hacking up a storm, signs that you'll be spending your day sick and "groggy.""

Amy Winehouse 'may have TB'

Another sad bad blow for the young gifted but flawed Amy Winehouse. The news that she might have TB is worrying and highlights the rise in TB infections in the UK and USA mainly amongst the very poor, homeless...

18th confirmed Measles case in Washington State

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A Eighteenth "18th" case of measles has been confirmed in Grant County in Eastern Washington, and "it's possible" some people in King County also may have been exposed. Officials can confirm all...

Hillary Coughing Fit Cuts TV Interview Short

I don't know who was producing this, but they really should have cut to an ad. Check out the video of Hillary coughing her way through this interview. It appears like the stress of campaigning is actually getting...

Doctors Find Tooth In Pensioner's Lung

"A pensioner suffering from breathing problems was found to have a tooth lodged in his lung. Gordon Billingham, 77, who has worn false teeth for several years, was so short of breath he could barely walk and was...

World Trade Center Dust Affected Health of Children

Nearly 1,700 children developed respiratory symptoms after being exposed to toxic dust following the collapse of the World Trade Center, new data shows. In a survey of 3,100 children enrolled in the World Trade...

Indigenous Panama region Suffers Mystery Illness

 "PANAMA CITY, Panama – Local officials are reporting that 42 people have died, almost all of them children, in an outbreak of a still unidentified disease in the remote Ñurum district of Panama’s...

One cannabis joint as bad as five cigarettes: study

"LONDON (Reuters) - Smoking one cannabis joint is as harmful to a person's lungs as having up to five cigarettes, according to research published on Tuesday. Those who smoked cannabis damaged both the lungs' small fine airways, used for transporting oxygen, and the large...

Woman Has Rare Case of Bubonic Plague

The Bubonic Plague, more commonly referred to as the "Black Death," ravaged Europe between the years 1347 and 1350. During this short period, 25 million people (one third of Europe's population at the time) were killed.  Thousands of people died each week and...

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