Recent research suggests that women go shopping whimsically and buy excessively during certain time of their periods. The study found that the probability for a woman to go on a shopping spree is highest during the 10 days before the start of a period. Full story

Cell phones cannot get infected with computer viruses, but your favorite phone may become a thriving environment for bacteria and viruses. Full story

As they say getting old is no fun. It’s age that makes us forget things we wanted to say, makes us lose keys, and spend hours trying to remember the password to the e-mail account. Yet, we believed the old age to hit us sometime beyond the "forty benchmark". Full story

As of July current year, six schools in Oxfordshire, England, are to take part in the initiative allowing schoolgirls aged 11 years and older to text to their school nurse for emergency contraception Full story

In 2008, Jean-Paul Gaultier teamed up with a company producing premium spring water brand Evian. The alliance was so successful that Evian and Gaultier have joined again to offer us new exiting product. Full story

Findings of Harvard scientists have made it possible to argue that venting negative emotions in a controlled manner ensures sustaining mental health. On the other hand, a person swept by anger could be dangerous to themselves and the others. Full story

British scientists believe that doodling during boring lectures or long phone calls does not distract our attention, but rather helps us remember more of what we hear. Full story

Food and Drug Administration gave green light to a new female condom FC2 that could be alternative to first ever previously approved condom for women FC which hardly generated decent sales since its launch back in 1993. Full story

It's no secret that financial straits can be injurious to our health: we are getting increasingly worse diet, becoming less physically active and overstressed. Even celebrities are suffering from the crisis and go bankrupt. But how has current downturn affected Americans' health in particular? Full story

Dear women, we would like to congratulate you on International Women’s Day, because today is your day! Let’s make it a truly spring day, let’s give and receive gifts, let’s be happy! Full story

According to Finnish scientists, working extra hours is linked to nervous disorders and may even lead to mental retardation. So the scientists urge workaholics to come to their senses. It is not that you have to sit around all day long, just make sure you don’t work yourself into Alzheimer’s disease. Full story

California resident Nadya Suleman, who recently gave birth to octuplets, fears that the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center may keep her children until she proves her ability to support them. According to AP, Phil McGraw, psychotherapist and host of popular TV show, announced this statement by citing a telephone conversation with Nadya Suleman. Full story

Under continuing financial crisis sex has become the most popular pastime that incurs no financial expenses. Such data have been acquired as a result of a poll among two thousand UK residents. Sex is followed by rambling through stores and gossiping. Full story

A team of European scientist has found that greying hair is caused by disordered mechanism for breakdown of hydrogen peroxide in our hair follicles. It results in high hydrogen peroxide levels, blocking the synthesis of melanin, a pigment responsible for the natural color of our hair. Find out the details of the process of getting grey hair. Full story

Gastric bypass surgery performed by British surgeons on a 17 year old British teenager who weighed nearly 476 pounds helped the young girl lose 280 pounds which was actually more than a half of her weight. The misfortune for Malissa Jones of Selby, England, came as she reached the age of two when she began to gain weight very quickly and the kid's problems only aggravated as she grew up. Full story

American scientists have managed to make adult body cells return to what they actually grow out from – germ line precursor cells. To treat infertility (helping parents conceive a baby who will inherit a part of their DNA), doctors need a lot of healthy eggs and sperm cells. Researchers say it might be possible to use adult body cells for this purpose. One of the approaches is to transform skin cells of parents into induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells (fist stage) and then further into germ line precursor cells (second stage) that are capable of producing sperm and eggs. Full story

In response to the mass poisoning of infants with contaminated milk, experts at the University of Science and Technology of China have developed pocket test for toxins in food. The price of this test strip is very low, making it affordable to any family seeking the protection from poisoned food. Full story

While some people can't become friendly with their colleagues and acquaintances no matter what they do, others make friends easily. Quite often, favorites don’t have beautiful or handsome looks. Neither are they brilliant speakers or talented people. Their secret lies in good genes. Full story

Dear all, let me congratulate you on Saint Valentine’s Day! I wish you all much love - romantic, passionate and always mutual! Spend this wonderful day with the person you love and let it be the most romantic day of the year! Full story

According to Finnish psychologist Atti Revonsuo, nightmares are actually positive experiences and even more – they are crucial for human race to survive. He claims all nightmares – like of falling down, being chased by monstrous animals, losing teeth or getting kicked out of school – emerge from our collective unconscious that contains experiences of human civilization repeatedly confronted with perilous challenges over the history. Full story