- Friday, November 20, 2009, 17:03
- Health
If you are in pain, eat some chocolate and you will feel better. If you don’t have chocolate available, don't worry. Drinking water will produce the same pain relief effect.
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- Thursday, November 19, 2009, 19:01
- News
Brazilian authorities put a national ban on tanning salons. The National Health Surveillance Agency announced the decision on November 11.
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- Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 13:48
- Relationships
Julie Boyd, 26, has confronted with the rarest problem. When she had unprotected sex with her husband, Mike, 27, on their wedding night, she found she was allergic to her husband’s sperm.
The couple had been dating for two years, but they always used protection.
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- Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 14:20
- News
It seems you can rely on instant coffee for getting your wrinkles out of the way and out of your face without resorting to lotions!
Facial wrinkles can be disposed of almost instantly when treated by collagen, a compound present naturally in the body.
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- Monday, November 16, 2009, 10:32
- Health
Open-space office environment, undoubtedly, generates lots of advantages. But as colds and flu season comes, all of them are outweighed by a huge disadvantage of increased risk of getting infected inside a packed office space. Yet, you can protect yourself.
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- Friday, November 13, 2009, 14:12
- Health
A new study has just been published in Oncogene reporting the discovery by British scientists of a gene connected with the development and growth of a significant number of breast cancer cases. It is a gene located on chromosome 8 which is called NRG1 (neuregulin-1).
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- Thursday, November 12, 2009, 19:08
- Health
University of Edinburgh started its testing of the hormonal male contraception. This is the second phase of the study, which is carried under the guidance of WHO. Previous tests have already confirmed effectiveness and safety of the new drug.
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- Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 14:23
- Health
Dieticians do not recommend eating a lot of high glycemic index foods such as white bread, pasta, white rice because this may result in obesity and diabetes. But high glycemic meal can promote healthy sleep, according to researchers of the University of Sydney in Australia.
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- Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 17:22
- Health
With swine flu raging, have you noticed how it now feels more embarrassing to sneeze or cough in public, and if you do sneeze, how people around you start giving you mean looks?
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- Monday, November 9, 2009, 18:07
- Health
Plastic surgeons from Cleveland, US, think surgical treatment can be effective tool to fight migraine.
In the experiment, they observed 69 patients who underwent the surgery of removing muscles that can jam trigeminal nerves, resulting in their chronic inflammation.
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- Friday, November 6, 2009, 19:21
- Health
Having a stressful childhood can shorten an individual's life by decades, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They found the link between stressful experiences in
childhood with diseases related to heart, lungs, liver and other medical conditions.
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- Thursday, November 5, 2009, 19:05
- Health, Pregnancy
70,000 dead mothers all over the world is the price the world pays when women resort to clandestine and unsafe abortions. Thus, despite an overall improvement due to the use of contraceptives and a decreasing number of abortions, unsafe abortions remain a deadly enemy of the mankind.
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- Thursday, November 5, 2009, 19:00
- Health
Scientists from the University of California claim we don’t have to control our salt consumption. They say our body regulates sodium intake naturally so there is no need to restrict the consumption.
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- Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 12:16
- Health
Women who suffer from excess weight or obesity are more likely to develop asthma. Moreover, having a normal weight but a large waist greatly increases the risk for developing asthma.
Northern California Cancer Center study found that bigger women were much more likely to suffer from asthma
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- Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 12:43
- News
A Japanese men's clothing company has started selling a special suits designed to protect the wearer from getting infected with swine flu.
The woolen business suit is coated with the chemical titanium dioxide which breaks down the virus when getting into contact with sunlight
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- Saturday, October 31, 2009, 5:17
- Celebrity Gossip
Peter Criss, an iconic drummer and a founding member of the rock band KISS, beat a rare disease among men – breast cancer. He says too many men are not aware they could fall prey to breast cancer and refuse treatment, hoping discomfort will go away.
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- Friday, October 30, 2009, 11:29
- Health
The health benefits of bacteria enriched yogurts are actually a fake, according to European Food Safety Authority (ESFA). 2006 large-scale study showed that out of 180 supposedly healthy ingredients, 10 are not beneficial at all while the health benefits of the rest 170 have not been confirmed.
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- Thursday, October 29, 2009, 20:40
- Health
Scientists from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia discovered what color protects from UV light best.
In the experiment they first analyzed protection properties of three major colors (red, blue and yellow)
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- Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 19:20
- Health
Chronic, raging stress may harm the immune system, increasing your chance of developing various diseases. Occasional stress, however, can boost anti-tumor activity, according to the authors of study published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
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- Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 12:20
- Health
It's in our nature that we don’t want to get old. So it comes as no surprise that over the history scientists has been endeavored to find sources of prolonged youth or reaching immortality. Austrian scientist extracted yet another elixir of youth from human sperm.
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