It looks like any other county road in rural America, but a two-mile dirt track in Minnesota might be one of the deadliest cancer hotspots in the country.
All four of the homes in the two-mile stretch along County Road B in Dodge County have been touched by the disease, with the area now so notorious other locals call it ‘cancer road’.
Since the 1980s, fifteen people have been diagnosed with tumors, often rarer and more aggressive forms, seven of
It was the original social media craze, inspiring millions of people to pour freezing water on their friends in the name of charity.
But the collateral of the ice bucket challenge — which died years before TikTok was even born — is still being felt to this day.
The Ice Bucket Challenge worked by giving people two choices, similar to a ‘trick’ or ‘treat’.
Either they had big containers of ice water poured over their heads or they made a
Two patrons of a northern California day spa died from Legionnaires’ disease that health officials fear was lurking in a
The progressive muscle-paralyzing disease that killed esteemed physicist Stephen Hawking has claimed the life of Sandra Bullock’s longtime partner.
Photographer Bryan Randall, 57, privately battled amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for three years before succumbing to the disease this week, according to a statement.
The progressive disease, which has a life expectancy of just two to five years, causes muscles to waste away. This leads to fatal full-body paralysis.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 31,000 Americans
Bella Hadid has spoken candidly about her struggles with Lyme disease over the years.
The model was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2012 at age 16. Bella, however, wasn’t the only one in her family who has been publicly battling the illness. Her mother, Yolanda Hadid, confirmed at the Global Lyme Alliance Gala in 2015 that Bella and brother Anwar Hadid were dealing with the debilitating disease.
Bella’s sister Gigi Hadid later praised her for
Disease X has been trending on Twitter, with users on the popular Elon Musk-owned platform comparing the “unknown virus” to having the potential for another global pandemic.
COVID-weary users were quick on the draw with a wide sundry of memes and one-liners, with more than 12,000 posts dedicated to the mysterious disease as of press time.
More than a few even took the opportunity to swipe directly at Musk, who recently rebranded Twitter as “X,” suggesting that the disease was
British scientists are leading the charge to create a vaccine to halt the next deadly pandemic within 100 days of it breaking out.
Experts are working on a high-security project at Porton Down, the top-secret government laboratory, to develop prototype vaccines to tackle ‘Disease X’ when it hits.
The ambitious target would smash the 362 days it took to develop a Covid jab, potentially stopping crippling lockdowns in future.
Scientists agree it is only a matter of time until the
Scientists have revealed the seven factors that put young men at a higher risk of colon cancer – as experts scramble to find what’s causing a surge in the disease.
Once seen as a disease of the eldery, there has been a mysterious doubling in colon cancer cases among young adults in recent years.
Researchers from Indiana University analyzed medical records of 3,000 men aged 35 to 49 years old — a fifth of whom were diagnosed with colon cancer.
Bella Hadid is opening up about her recent Lyme disease treatment, which older sister Gigi Hadid categorized as “long and intense.”
“The little me that suffered would be so proud of grown me for not giving up on myself,” Bella, 26, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, August 6, alongside photos from her 100-day treatment. “Thankful to my mommy [Yolanda Hadid] for keeping all of my medical records, sticking by me, never leaving
Bella Hadid’s recent absence from the modeling world has been noticeable in recent months, with the supermodel not gracing runways or being spotted in public.
Transparent in her ongoing fight against Lyme disease, the 26-year-old shared a series of photos to Instagram documenting her arduous battle with the illness that she says has left her with “invisible suffering.”
Along with pictures of her medical papers detailing Hadid’s illnesses are pictures of the American-born model receiving treatment, often hooked up to
