Candida die-off, or a Herx reaction, is a negative reaction caused by the rapid removal of the yeast Candida from the body. Symptoms, such as fever, rapid heart rate, and flushing, can appear suddenly ...

A hangover can make you feel like death warmed over, but a hangover won’t kill you — at least not on its own. The aftereffects of tying one on can be pretty unpleasant, but not fatal. Alcohol, though, ...

Dying of a broken heart was just a figure of speech until 2002 when Dr Hikaru Sato and colleagues at Hiroshima City Hospital described it in a study. Sato named the condition takotsubo cardiomyopathy.