Pedro Martinez’ four-year contract with the Mets expires after this season, and Martinez told the New York Daily News that he would like to spend time tending to his father, who is battling brain cancer.

One Vietnamese teenager suffers from a facial tumor so large that she can barely eat, can’t attend school, and now doctors fear she won’t be able to breathe. The 15-year-old girl is in Florida awaiting a surgery that was arranged by the International Kids Fund.

Healthcare professionals were recently warned by Exubera manufacturers, Pfizer, that the insulin might be linked to lung cancer. The short-acting insulin is breathed through the mouth as an inhaler, and it helps control high blood sugar in diabetic patients.

Residents of Libby, Montana, home to the largest asbestos poisoning disasters in the U.S., received a bit of good news after the company responsible for causing thousands of asbestos-related injuries agreed to pay $250 million toward the cleanup effort.

Explanation and Causes:
Around the heart and the major blood vessels of the heart is a sac called the pericardial sac. Pericarditis is when this sac becomes inflamed and starts to swell. This presents problems for normal beating of the heart and irritation of the heart tissue due to the rubbing of the sac [...]