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After a 56-year-old man shared his plight with doctors for health problems ranging from extreme fatigue to pain, doctors started figuring out the cause behind his sufferings. The doctors found that the man actually had a kidney failure because of excessive iced tea consumption.

This has implications for people who include iced tea in the list of healthy food and beverages to not allow their waistline to expand. For the Arkansas man, iced tea turned out to be deadly.

The patient was used to consume sixteen eight-ounce glasses of iced tea daily. Oxalate is present in iced tea, and excessive consumption of ice tea led to accumulation of unsafe amount of oxalate in his kidneys, leading to kidney inflammation, said Umbar Ghaffar from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

On Thursday, Autism Speaks U Stanford celebrated Autism Awareness Day. To celebrate the day, Autism Speaks U Stanford hosted a number of events throughout the day. In the events, students were allowed to show their support for people across the world who have been affected by autism.

Autism is a spectrum condition that affects how a person communicates with other people. People with autism could also experience sensitivity to touches, sounds light and smells.

Spencer Savitz, president of Autism Speaks U Stanford, said Autism Speaks U Stanford is a student organization whose main motive is to spread awareness of autism spectrum disorders. It also works to raise funds for Autism Speaks, which is the largest autism science and advocacy organization in the word, according to Savitz.

A picture could help you determine the quality of your eyesight and figure out if you need eyeglasses or contacts. The picture has gone viral on the internet and shows you the blurry picture of Marilyn Monroe superimposed with a finely detailed image of Albert Einstein.

The picture creates an optical illusion and it was the work of the researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The picture, called Marilyn Einstein', has been actually developed as a test after combining a detailed image of Einstein, and a blurry photo of Monroe.

It has been revealed by Vijay Chokal-Ingam, brother of Mindy Kaling, that he faked his ethnicity to get into healthcare college. He said that he pretended to be black so as to get into the institution. He revealed this is a case of, ‘I’m going to ride my popular sibling’s coattails to champion my trigger’.

According to Chokal-Ingam, he revealed this after he heard that UCLA is taking into account escalating its affirmative-action admissions policies. He added that it is not true that affirmative action is helpful for the underprivileged.

After he got in false pretenses, Chokal-Ingam dropped out of St. Louis University Healthcare College after two years.

A new study has suggested that about 10% of breast milk purchased over the Internet is mixed with cows' milk. As per the health experts associated with the study, the results raise concerns about the safety of breast milk sold on the Internet.

A group of scientists who two years ago found very high levels of dangerous bacteria and other micro-organisms in breast milk sold online has carried out this study. The scientists said that providing baby breast milk that comes from somebody other than his own mother is a centuries' old practice.

A journal JAMA Oncology-published research has unveiled that certain fish oils and fish oil supplements may increase the risk for cancer patients by developing resistance to chemotherapy.

The researchers said the fish oils have been found to be having 16:4(n-3) in significant amount. It is a fatty acid having strong chemotherapy-negating effects that have been seen in pre-clinical models.

In an experiment, it has been found that low dose of fish oil interfered with chemotherapy activity in mice. Study’s co-author Dr. Emilie E. Voest with the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam said that there is an increasing concern that use of supplements and anticancer drugs may have negative influence on the treatment result.