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According to new estimates in National Health Statistics Reports of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), no considerable change has been noted in the occurrence of HIV infection among adults in the US.

It has been reported by Joseph Woodring, DO, MPH, and colleagues at the CDC that from 2007 to 2012, occurrence of HIV infection among adults in the US between the ages of 18 to 59 years was 0.39%. It was down only to some extent from the previous estimate of 0.47% among 18 to 49-year-olds for the period 1999 to 2006.

A website Fast Food Menu Price, through its new infographic, claims to show what actually happens to body after a person eats McDonald’s signature sandwich, i.e. the Big Mac.

It has been known that sandwich probably is not the healthiest option for frequent consumption, the website through its infographic shows that the effects of eating the burger can be far worse than what we have been thinking.

The graphics claims that the burger’s high sodium content dehydrates the body, increases blood sugar and drastically slows down digestion. The website has divided the information in time intervals of what happens 10, 20, 30, 40 and 60 minutes after consuming the burger.

After a study by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician with Hurley Children’s Hospital, has linked use of the Flint River as a drinking water source to elevated blood lead levels in children, state officials said they are wasting no time on considering the issue.

Data has shown that blood lead levels in Flint remained fairly steady among children under 16 years old ever since the city switched from Lake Huron water to the river, said Angela Minicuci, a spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

Minicuci said in a statement that the department is presently reviewing the results presented by Dr. Hanna-Attisha. According to Minicuci, the data they collected during their study do not match with that of the Dr. Hanna-Attisha.

World is full of negativity and evils, but a small gesture of a McDonalds’s employee in Chicago has reminded that kindness still exists. Kenny, a cashier, last week, helped an elderly disabled man who needed help to eat his dinner.

Destiny Carreno, a customer who saw Kenny's kindness firsthand, said she was in awe of the McDonald’s employee’s kindness. She immediately took a picture of Kenny helping the disabled man. Kenny cut food for the old man so that he can have his dinner easily.

Researchers have designed a new brain-to-brain interface that allows communication between two individuals wordlessly and remotely over the Internet. Participants, during the study, were seated almost a mile apart on campus.

The University of Washington researchers, Andrea Stocco and Chantel Prat, said results of their groundbreaking mental ‘20 Questions’ study were published Wednesday in PLUS One.

Stocco, an assistant professor of psychology, said, “Evolution has spent a colossal amount of time to find ways for us and other animals to take information out of our brains and communicate it to other animals in the forms of behavior, speech and so on”.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a new report, according to which, more than one in 10 pregnant women accepted that they consumed alcohol in the last month. The report also suggested that one in 33 acknowledged at least one episode of binge-drinking.

The findings were not precisely encouraging, if one considers that the US health officials have set a target to eradicate all binge-drinking by pregnant women by the year 2020 and to restrict the prevalence of other drinking to just 2%.