Visiting tanning salon is no joke. In this article you will learn how to get ready for this important thing and what rules to follow to get cute even suntan without harming your health. Full story

An invention of British scientists from University of Stratchclyde might allow us to sunbath without the danger of burning our skin. The scientists have developed a bracelet-like strip which changes its color, warning of too much sun exposure. Full story

Scientists from various institutes worldwide have made so many discoveries! A great part of them refer to health. Below you will find 15 curious facts about health, nutrition, human body and exercise you might not know before. Full story

Doctors argue that there are lots of foods that can prevent cancer. But what if you’ve already got cancer? It may seem that taking preventive measures does not make sense anymore as the disease strikes. But that’s not true. Full story

Dutch dermatologist Martino Neumann from Erasmus University Medical Centre has developed a spray for diagnosis of skin cancer at early stages. Worrying skin part (a mole, pigment spots, freckles, etc.) is first sprayed over with fluorescent liquid. Full story

The results of the study conducted by British scientists from the University of Oxford gave the ground to claim there is a link between an increased risk of cancer in women and moderate (and even low) consumption of alcohol. This was an unprecedentedly large-scale study involving 1.3 million of British women. Full story

Contrary to conventional wisdom about the health benefits of green tea, this beverage may harm cancer patients, researchers at the University of Southern California warn. According to researchers, drinking green tea in combination with taking cancer drugs used to treat multiple myeloma (bone marrow cancer) and lymphoma (cancer of the lymphatic system) makes the treatment completely ineffective. Full story

As you know, blue-eyed and fair-skinned people, let alone red-haired, couldn’t enjoy having a nice tan. But science is forging ahead. Scientists discovered a hormone-like substance injections of which would satisfy anyone's desire for chocolate tan. What's more, "scientific" tan would stay on three times longer. Full story

Scientists from the University College London (Great Britain) report that antioxidants do not have the power to prevent the body from aging. They conducted series of experiments and can confidently claim that the role of free radicals in the process of cell damage is greatly exaggerated. This means that the protective action of antioxidants is exaggerated as well. Full story

Hot arguments about health benefits and/or negative effects of coffee are very common these days. However, Scottish scientists recently announced a well-grounded reason on why this beverage should not be largely consumed by young ladies in particular. They claim that coffee prevents female body from developing breasts at normal rate. Coffee has been known for a long time for its numerous "side effects". First of all, regular consumption of coffee can lead to addiction such that the vegetative-vascular system refuses to work without caffeine. Second of all, the drink contributes to a number of negative effects, such as yellow teeth, insomnia, gastritis, etc. Full story

The Daily Mail reports the secrets of eternal youth are opening with the help of scientists. Experiments on mice show that the ferment called telomerase may become the main ingredient of “elixir of eternal youth” – the scientists hope that this ferment will help to slow the process of aging. Full story

German scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute of Engineering Processes and Packaging designed cancer preventing bread. Flax seeds contain phytoestrogens, which prevent development of hormone-related cancers, such as breast and prostate cancer. Lupine seeds contain cholesterol lowering substances. Unfortunately, nobody enjoys eating those seeds as they have a bad taste. The scientists came up with a way to introduce the healthy substances from those seeds into our regular foods. Full story

October issue of Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research magazine features the findings of American scientists about suntan health impacts. They reveal that any suntan whether you get it from the sun or in a tanning salon is harmful for our health and may cause various illnesses, from premature skin aging to the skin cancer. Full story

American scientists discovered that living in a megalopolis is far more harmful than smoking. The negative health impact of urban air is equal to smoking of 300 cigarettes per day. Experts at the Louisiana State University found free radicals in polluted air. These radicals are harmful to the lungs and can cause cancer of different organs in healthy people without their having other disease risk factors. Full story

Who said, wrinkles are good for you? British medics did. They found out that wrinkles, which are bad news in the eyes of any woman, protect them, however, from skin cancer. This discovery was made by an accident. While performing numerous surgeries to treat skin cancer (carcinoma) the medics noticed, that most of the patients had smooth skin on their faces. Full story

Swedish scientists made a striking discovery – as it turns out, the four–footed pet is capable to detect ovarian carcinoma in his owner before anyone else. It is hard to overestimate the significance of this discovery. In the Sweden alone, the disease hits 900 - 1000 people annually. This disease is dangerous, since it arises and develops without being noticed, so that in 7 out of 10 cases the diagnosis is made too late. The core reason for those tragedies lies in the fact that humans can not take a peek into their own body. We also can not detect a developing disease by its smell. Dogs, however, can. Full story

Aspirin is going to become one of the remedies for breast cancer, claim experts at U.S. National Cancer Institute. According to the findings of a recent study involving more than 127 thousands women, regular aspirin intake reduces the risk of breast cancer by 13% and in case of an existing tumor aspirin reduces the likelihood of the relapse. Full story

Most women tend to avoid color lip makeup in summer in order for their lips to get necessary vitamins from the sun and to look more natural on the beach. Instead, many of us use lip balm or lipgloss, but is it really healthy for your lips? Summer is just around the corner, and here are tips on whether to use lip makeup in summer and, if yes, what kind of it to use and how to protect your lips from the summer sun. Full story

Many of us know, that drinking red wine in moderate amounts is beneficial to one’s health, as it contains antioxidants (molecules slowing and preventing the production of free radicals). Comparing the good effect of red wine on health with that of soy sauce, the latter is even much healthier – antioxidants contained in soy sauce are 10 times more effective, claim scientists at University of New South Wales in Singapore. Full story

It’s well-known, that hair dyes contain chemicals, that can damage one’s hair. Hair dye is associated with thinning hair and destroying hair follicles. According to the study results involving about 10000 volunteers, hair dye is even more dangerous for health. Regular use of hair dye increases the risk of malignant tumors of lymph tissue. Scientists from Yale University claim, that only those, who used hair dye produced before 1980 are more exposed to cancer and regarding hair dyes produced later, the cancer risk increases only if one regularly uses dark colors of hair dye. Full story