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When Chelsea Banton was born five weeks prematurely, doctors predicted she had 36 hours to live. Proving them wrong was the first miracle for Chelsea, now an Independence High School freshman. "She spent the first four months in a neonatal intensive care unit," recalls her mother, Colleen Banton of Mint Hill.

Church groups in the UK have voiced concerns over the findings in the fourth national census of the ethnicity of all patients in the NHS psychiatric hospitals. The "Count Me In" 2008 report revealed that detention rates for people from African and Caribbean communities continue to exceed that of all other ethnic groups.

For 118 days, D'Zhana Simmons, 14, had no heart beating in her chest as she waited in hospital to have a heart transplant. Doctors believe it is the first time someone so young has been kept alive for this length of time without a heart.

The antioxidant vitamins are known to help fight free radicals, which cause cell damage that can lead to cancer, but new research suggests they are ineffective at preventing the disease when taken in pill form.

There is a new common symptom of the flu, in addition to the usual aches, coughs, fevers and sore throats. Turns out a lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like "flu symptoms" into Google and other search engines before they call their doctors.

The lives of nearly 8,000 black Americans could be saved each year if doctors could figure out a way to bring their average blood pressure down to the average level of whites, a surprising new study found.