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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Comedian Amy Schumer, 44, has recently come clean about her struggle with Cushing’s syndrome, leading to a dramatic weight loss. Schumer’s transformation has sparked conversation online, to which she responded in a now-deleted Instagram post that shut down speculation about cosmetic enhancements. “I didn’t lose 30lbs — I lost 50,” she emphasized …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Massachusetts health officials announced Tuesday that the state has confirmed its first case of an incurable lung disease linked to exposure to certain countertop stones. The disease is particularly associated with quartz, which has become increasingly popular in recent years for its practicality and aesthetic, according to health officials. The Massachusetts Department …

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Days after Tatiana Schlossberg announced that she has terminal cancer, the spotlight is on the warning signs of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter, 35, shared the details of her diagnosis in an essay published in The New Yorker on Nov. 22. Schlossberg, who is the daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A New Jersey man’s death is the first known to be linked to a tick-borne meat allergy, according to researchers at UVAHealth in Virginia. The unidentified man, 47, reportedly died last summer, four hours after eating a hamburger and just two weeks after a similar episode triggered by steak. With the summer …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Exposure to a common chemical used in dry cleaning and some consumer products has been linked to triple the risk of a dangerous liver disease, a new study suggests. Tetrachloroethylene (PCE), which is also used in some adhesives, spot cleaners and stainless steel polish, was associated with three times greater odds of …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Most of us think of a salon shampoo as a moment of relaxation, when we get to lean back and let the stylist wash and rinse our hair.  But for a very small number of people, that innocuous posture can set off a cascade of vascular injury known as beauty parlor stroke …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Scientists may have discovered the first therapy for Huntington’s disease, a brain disorder that until now has had no effective treatments. Researchers at the University of College London (UCL) announced positive results from a global clinical trial for a new gene therapy, AMT-130. Developed by the Dutch biotechnology company uniQure, the therapy …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A rare type of cancer is growing among millennials and members of Generation X, new research shows. Diagnoses of appendix cancer have tripled in the U.S. for people born between 1976 and 1984 — and it has quadrupled for those born between 1981 and 1989. The study was published on Monday in …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A woman in Texas has died after contracting a fatal brain amoeba from contaminated water. The patient, 71, had used a nasal irrigation device filled with unboiled tap water from an RV’s water faucet, according to an alert from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The “previously healthy” woman …