Study: Midwest has the worst drunken driving rates

A study has shown that the upper Midwest United States has the worst drunk driving rate in teh country. Must be something about those Northern climates..."The upper Midwest has the worst drunken driving rates in the country, according to a government report that says 15...

The World's Second-Largest Army Fights Against HIV

"It may sound like a strange battle cry but the world's second-largest Army has trained its guns on an unlikely enemy. "We consider HIV our enemy No. 1," says Director General of Armed Forces Medical For most of the 1.2 million troops who live away from their families for...

Recovering From A Romance Or Dating Scam (part 1)

"Although they never bargained for the romance scam when they began to look for a date online, yet when the romance scam happened, they didn't imagine that the experience would be so horrible as it later turned out to be. Some victims told me that they couldn't sleep at night...

More Evidence That Hand Washing Really Works

"One of the easiest ways to get a potentially fatal infection is if you have a central-line catheter put in; as many as 28,000 patients die each year from infections caused by the insertion of a central-line catheter. The current New England Journal of Medicine reports on a...

Cerebral Palsy - Symptoms, Causes, Treatments

"Cerebral palsy or CP is the most common childhood physical disability. It is a permanent physical condition that affects movement. A new international consensus definition has been proposed "Cerebral palsy (CP) describes a group of disorders of the development of movement...

STROKE - Causes, incidence, risk factors and prevention

"A stroke is an interruption of the blood supply to any part of the brain. A stroke is sometimes called a "brain attack." Alternative Names Cerebrovascular disease; CVA; Cerebral infarction; Cerebral hemorrhage Causes, incidence, and risk factors Every 45 seconds, someone in...