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Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 - Energy drinks might give you wings, unleash the beast or fuel your grind - but chugging too many might pose a serious stroke risk, doctors warn. An otherwise fit and healthy man in his 50s with a daily eight-can habit found out the hard way, a case study published Tuesday in the journal BMJ Case Reports states. This patient suffered permanent damage from a minor stroke caused by extremely high blood pressure, ...

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Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 - A sperm donor with a genetic mutation that increases the risk of cancer by up to 90% fathered at least 197 children across Europe, it was reported. A small number of British women received sperm from a donor with a cancer-causing gene while seeking fertility treatment abroad, a regulator has said. A sperm donor with a genetic mutation that increases the risk of cancer by up to 90% fathered at least 197 children ...

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Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 - Reading time 3 minutes Vaccines aren't the only near-miraculous medical intervention some Americans are turning their backs on. New research out today finds that more newborns are not receiving a safe supplement that protects them from serious bleeding. Doctors at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) studied the medical records of newborns. In recent years, they found, an increasing number of children ...