Excess Salt Links to 1.65 Million Death in the US alone each year.

  People around the world eat twice as much salt as they should, and this behaviour translates into 1.65 million heart-related deaths per year, researchers in the United States said Wednesday. Excess salt can cause high blood pressure, which is leading factor in heart disease and stroke, according to the study in the New England...

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What is Ebola And How Is It Spread

The United States' top disease detective calls Ebola a "painful, dreadful, merciless virus." The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak in West Africa an international emergency, killing more than 900 people and spreading. That's scary and serious. But it also cries out for context. AIDS alone takes more than a million...

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