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Twenty-eight years ago, neonatal intensive care nurse Vilma Wong cared for a premature baby, Brandon Seminatore, who weighed only 2 lbs., and 6 oz. Since then, she’s seen tens of thousands of babies come through the unit, The Mercury News reports, but never forgot about him, even when she came face-to-face with him as an adult at Lucile … Continue reading "California Nurse Discovers Premature Baby She Cared for 28 Years Ago Is Now Her Colleague"

When Kevin McHale needed a solution for his unbearable stomach problems, he turned to a gym for help — and completely transformed his body in the process. The former Glee star joined Ultimate Performance gym in Los Angeles, and over the course of 12 weeks, he dropped 8.2 percent body fat, gained 5 lbs. of … Continue reading "Glee’s Kevin McHale Transformed His Body to Fix Stomach Issues: ‘I Was Constantly in Pain’"

Halfway into her pregnancy, Heather and Anthony Catanese got the news that parents-to-be never want to hear: their son Lorenzo’s heart was not developing properly, and he had little chance of surviving. “The doctor came in, they saw the problems with the blood flow, and they said, ‘We’re going to have to send you over … Continue reading "Baby Survives Extremely Rare In-Utero Heart Surgery: ‘We Were Terrified’"

Jillian Barberie has breast cancer. The actress and TV host revealed on Twitter Thursday that she received medical test results back, which confirmed that she has cancer in her right breast. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following You’ll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. “Results … Continue reading "Jillian Barberie Reveals She Has Breast Cancer, Will Undergo Double Mastectomy"

Until recently, Jim McGee and Doug Kaufman hadn’t seen each other since they served together in the Vietnam War nearly 50 years ago. When they reunited for a fellow serviceman’s funeral three months ago, Kaufman learned that McGee needed a kidney — and offered up one of his. Get push notifications with news, features and … Continue reading "Vietnam Vet Donates Kidney to Fellow Soldier After Reuniting for First Time in Nearly 50 Years"

As 6-year-old Ian Unger geared up to begin the new school year as a first grader, the Sand Lake, Michigan, boy was most excited to ride the bus with the other kids. So he was “devastated” when school officials told him he wouldn’t be able to take the school transportation because of his type 1 … Continue reading "6-Year-Old with Diabetes Sells Pumpkins to Buy a Service Dog — and Ends Up Raising Over $24K"

Guests and staff at the New York Hotel at Disneyland Paris were accidentally poisoned by a mix-up of chemicals in a swimming pool on Friday. According to France’s Le Parisien newspaper, 22 people were intoxicated by a bad mix of bleach and sulfuric acid which was made in the hotel pool tank. The outlet reports … Continue reading "22 People Accidentally Poisoned by Bad Mix of Chemicals in a Disneyland Paris Resort Pool"

Check the raw beef and deli meat in your refrigerators—they just might be subject to a recall. On Thursday, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced in a press release that JBS Tolleson, Inc. has recalled 6,500,966 pounds of raw beef over salmonella concerns. Get push notifications with news, features and more. … Continue reading "89,000 Lbs. of Deli Ham Recalled After 1 Death and 3 Illnesses Reported from Possible Listeria"

A terminally ill California man won a milestone case against agricultural giant Monsanto after he claimed the company’s weed killer, Roundup, gave him cancer. Dewayne Johnson, 46, was awarded $289 million in damages on Friday after a jury ruled the company’s product was the reason he developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to the Associated Press. Monsanto … Continue reading "Terminally Ill Man Awarded $289 Million After Jury Rules Weed Killer Roundup Caused His Cancer"

Twins Roxana and Ana Lopez were just 17 years old when their mom died of breast cancer. It was 2007 — still six years before Angelina Jolie would reveal she had the BRCA1 gene, introducing the term into the general lexicon — and they hadn’t heard of genetic testing. “Because we were younger, our parents didn’t … Continue reading "Twin Sisters Put off BRCA1 Testing After Mom Died of Breast Cancer — Until One of Them Got It Too"