A 5-year-old Kentucky girl with a rare disease was refused by two airlines to board a plane from Canada to China for her treatment, saying she was too sick to fly. The girl was to receive stem cell treatments for a rare fatal disease at a Beijing hospital.

After being treated at a Vancouver hospital for seizures, Miranda Goranflo and her daughter Hailey were forced to fly home to Shepherdsville, KY, when the airlines, Air China and Air Canada, decided during a layover in Vancouver, British Columbia, that she was not fit to fly for 11-hour trip

Brain injuries from falling account for half of all elderly deaths, a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says. In 2005, brain injuries accounted for 50 percent of unintentional fall deaths and 8 percent of nonfatal fall-related hospitalizations among older adults.

Traumatic brain injuries, which are caused by a bump or blow to the head due to a fall, caused nearly 8,000 deaths and 56,000 hospitalizations in 2005 among Americans 65 and older, the study found

The Home Office has launched advertisements to warn 18- to 24-year-olds about the consequences of binge drinking.

The TV ad that says "You wouldn't start a night like this, so why end it that way?" shows a young man injuring himself, being violent, urinating on his shoes and pouring a takeaway meal on his shirt just before he was about to go out

Low-birth weight children and children born prematurely are at a greater risk of developing autism than their healthier counterparts, new research shows.

The risk was especially pronounced among low birth-weight girls, said the authors of the study, which was published in the June issue of Pediatrics. Baby girls weighing less than 2.5 kilograms, or about 5.5 pounds, had 3.5 times increased risk of autism. Baby girls born more than seven weeks early had a 5.4 times increased risk

Sipping a cup of specially formulated cocoa can help ward off diabetes and other cardiovascular disease, new research has found. The German study says flavanols present in cocoa can actually help blood vessels to function better and might soon be considered part of a healthy diet for the prevention of cardiovascular disease.

When researchers from University Hospital Aachen and the Technical University Aachen, in Aachen, Germany prescribed three mugs of specially formulated cocoa a day for a month, they found "severely impaired" arteries regained normal function. Flavanols, natural plant compounds also found in tea, red wine, and certain fruits and vegetables, are responsible for cocoa's healthful benefits