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Dangerous Kids’ Makeup, Including the 11 Scariest Ingredients

The only thing scarier than kids' Halloween costumes this time of year is the ingredients in dangerous kids' makeup used to get them in character. An eye-opening 2016 report published by the Breast Cancer Fund and ...

Antibiotics in Fast Food: See How 25 Top Chains Rank

Nutritional focus on fast food often hones in on calories, but antibiotics in fast food shouldn't be ignored, either. A recent report released by the Center for Food Safety rates the top 25 American restaurant ...

Lyme Disease Symptoms & Causes to Watch Out For (Plus, Promising News About a New Lyme Test)

Lyme disease symptoms can mimic many other diseases, making a swift diagnosis difficult. That's problematic, as rates of Lyme disease are on the rise. That's why news of an upcoming new test to detect the disease is ...

Narcissistic Personality Disorder: How to Deal with Family, Friends & Co-Workers Showing Symptoms

The terms narcissist and narcissistic personality disorder are thrown around rather loosely today. While a touch of self-centeredness, need for admiration or difficulty being criticized may seem narcissistic, it doesn't necessarily warrant a diagnosis of ...

Croup Cough Symptoms + 6 Natural Remedies

Have you ever had a cough that sounds similar to a barking dog or seal? Well, then, you've unfortunately had experience with croup cough. What is croup exactly? It's a viral infection that's most common in children, ...

5 Weird Ways to Stop an Infection (or Prevent One in the First Place)

No one likes getting sick or, even worse, contracting an infection. What with doctor's visits with long waits, the overprescription of antibiotics that lead to superbugs and generally feeling awful, most of us probably agree that preventing ...

Pneumonia Symptoms, Risk Factors & Natural Treatments

Pneumonia is the single largest infectious cause of death in children globally, killing more than 2,500 children a day worldwide. It's also to blame for up to 7 percent of all deaths in adults. (1) According to ...

Mercury Poisoning Symptoms & How to Avoid or Recover from Them

Mercury poisoning is the result of exposure to mercury, a heavy metal that's seriously toxic to our health. Numerous studies have shown that high exposure to mercury changes and poisons the central nervous system, which can result in irritability, fatigue, ...

Improve Your Homocysteine Levels to Protect Your Heart

Never heard of homocysteine before and wondering what causes someone to have elevated homocysteine levels? Homocysteine is a specific type of amino acid that's created in the body during metabolic processes, as opposed to consumed in ...

Breakthrough Study: Fungus May Trigger Crohn’s Disease

A fungus may trigger Crohn's disease, a devastating inflammatory bowel disease that often requires heavy-duty drugs, surgery or a combination of both to keep at bay. The new finding, published in the September 2016 edition journal ...