Cough Into Your Cell Phone - Receive a Diagnosis

American and Australian scientists are working on a new form of cell phone technology that will allow users to cough into their own phones and receive a diagnosis. Rather than constantly making trips to the...

Cancer Stricken Patrick Swayze Stops Treatment

Cancer stricken Patrick Swayze has reportedly given up all medical treatment, after doctors told him there was little they could do to stop the progress of his illness. Fifty-six year old Swayze was diagnosed a...

Babies' Remains Found In Coolers

"Babies' Remains Found In CoolersFather Charged After Remains Of Infants Found In Rural HarrisonvilleJanuary 23, 2009HARRISONVILLE, Mo. -- A Missouri man who authorities said fathered four children with a young female relative has been charged with killing one of the babies...

Hospitalized Patrick Swayze stays strong

Last Friday came with a sudden and alarming news when A&E president Abbe Raven revealed that Patrick Swayze had to be admitted into hospital with pneumonia.This wasn't a good sign for the actor's health who is battling with pancreatic cancer since 2007, but accordingly to...

Patrick Swayze Hospitalized With Pneumonia

Patrick Swayze has been admitted to hospital with pneumonia.Swayze has iv stage pancreatic cancer and experts say that his pneumonia could be related to treatments for his condition as chemotherapy spresses the...

Patrick Swayze checks into hospital with pneumonia

Patrick Swayze has checked himself into hospital with pneumonia and has pulled out of his press tour. Swayze is battling inoperable pancreatic cancer, and it has been suggested that he only has two years to...

WHO: Heart deseases, HIV/AIDS and Cancer remain top global killers

In a new report by the World Health Organization, shows a divide in global killers. While "heart disease is responsible for the majority of deaths in rich nations", pneumonia, diarrhea and HIV/AIDS continue to...

Actor Guillaume Depardieu Dies at 37

Guillaume Depardieu, son of French actor Gerard Depardieu, has died at the age of 37 after a sudden case of pneumonia. "Guillaume Depardieu, the often-troubled son of renowned French film star Gerard Depardieu who...

Time For Your Annual Flu Shot

As we move into the annual flu season, it's time to line up for that little shot in the arm.  Influenza is a serious viral disease that often reaches epidemic proportions in N. America during the winter...

Why infants still die from SIDS

" When Melissa and Rudy Haberzettl's son Jacob was born in November 2006, he was perfect in every way -- full-term, healthy weight, and a champion eater. Like many new moms, Melissa was determined to follow doctor's orders: She breastfed Jake exclusively, put him to sleep on...

Family Expected Bernie Mac to Recover

The family of renowned American comedian Bernie Mac, who died Saturday from pneumonia at the age of 50, had expected that he would recover from the illness that had hospitalized him since the middle of July....

Actor, comedian and exasperated dad Mac dies at 50

"Bernie Mac blended style, authority and a touch of self-aware bluster to make audiences laugh as well as connect with him. For Mac, who died Saturday at age 50, it was a winning mix, delivering him from a poor...

Bernie Mac, 50, Dies Of Suspected Complications

This recent story may give insights into the source of this sudden turn in his condition: "Bernie Mac Recovering, Expected to Be Released from Hospital Soon By Rebecca Brody - 14:59, August 9th 2008 ...

Comedian Mac in Chicago hospital

Award winning Hollywood Comedian Bernie Mac is suffering from pneumonia and admitted in a hospital in home town at Chicago. Winner of numerous award nominations including two at the Emmys and the Golden...

Garden Bio-hazard: Man Killed By Compost

A man in Briatian has died after inhaling lethal spores which grew on rotting compost in his garden. "The 47-year-old Briton fell ill less than 24 hours after being engulfed by "clouds of dust" while working with rotting tree and plant mulch.At first medics thought the...

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