Most other health groups advocate for age 40 for women mammograms, because delaying mammograms makes breast cancer more difficult to treat and makes a patient less likely to survive. But now the American Cancer Society is recommending fewer mammograms, saying women aged 45 could be screened every year while those aged 55 should be screened every two years
Subway announced on October 20, Tuesday that next year its over 27,000 restaurants in the United States will begin switching to poultry products that are only made from chickens and turkeys that were raised without antibiotics. The company plans to make all poultry dishes antibiotic-free within 2 or 3 years, then all beef and pork menu items will lack the germ-killing drugs within 6 years later.
A new study shows that the first-born child in a family is usually smarter than his or her brothers and sisters, with each consecutive sibling having a slightly lower Intelligence Quotient (IQ) than the previous one. The research on birth order found differences in factors such as intelligence, personal freedom, and parental attention, although the order of birth had no effect on personality.
Halloween makeup contains toxic chemicals that can cause reduced fertility, kidney disease, heart disease, memory and behavioral problems and high blood pressure.
With the birthday of Patriarch Zhanggong, the Buddhist monk whose mummified statue was stolen from Yangchun Village, approaching, the government hopes the statue can be returned to its rightful place. The statue is currently possessed by Dutch collector Oscar van Overeem.
With the Nanjing Massacre Documents officially entered into the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, China now has a total of 10 entries in the database. The recent addition joins a diverse collection of China's collective history.
A young German man's solving sudoku puzzles caused him to suffer seizures in an extremely rare medical case. He had suffered an accident during a ski trip after being buried by an avalanche, causing muscle spasms when he tried to talk and walk. While recovering in the hospital the physical education student experienced chronic muscle-jerking seizures in his left arm while trying to figure out the number-placement brain-teaser, which ended after he stopped working on the sudoku game.
Chinese audiences gave nod to the 24-hour version of Richard Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelungs." The Chinese premiere of the epic opera also serves as its debut in Asia.
The Duane family turned a bad situation to something good by offering their cancelled $35,000 wedding reception meal at the 4-star Citizen Hotel to the homeless families in Sacramento.
A new viral video shows a samurai cutting a baseball perfectly in half which was coming towards him at 100 miles per hour.
Liu Cixin has been given the Best Achievement Award for the 2015 Xingyun Award for Global Chinese Science Fiction. Liu was awarded the Hugo Award earlier this year for his work, "The Three-Body Problem."
China is set to launch preparations to have the family cuisine of ancient philosopher Confucius (551-479 B.C.) listed as a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage, experts said at a food conference in East China's Qufu on Sunday, Oct. 18.
The United States' flu season is just around the corner, with the cold weather and dry air making it easier for people to catch the virus and then suffer the symptoms of coughing, sneezing, runny noses, headaches, sore throats, and fevers. Fortunately, people can fight such cold-weather illnesses by taking preventative steps to avoid influenza germs, including flu shots and healthy living.
A new study was done to find Americans' biggest fears among items such as snakes, government corruption, ghosts, running out of money, clowns, spying corporations, and death. One general finding of surveys was that Americans are more anxious about technology such as robots, computers, and the Internet than man-made disasters such as terrorist or nuclear attacks.
The United States' influenza season is just around the corner, so it is again the time of year for Americans to get their shots. A convenient option is at a drive-thru flu clinic. They resemble mobile flu clinics except in the drive-through format it is the customers, not the medical staff with vaccine-containing syringes, who roll up.
