Archive for January, 2012

I dance the Macarena whenever I come across an article that argues against extreme healthy living. I laughed while reading research about dark chocolate firing up the happy brain. And I high-fived the doctors who warn folks against too much sunscreen because it blocks the vitamin D that all of us need. I hate that [...]

At home drug tests give you the ability to take a drug test in the privacy of your own home. Instead of going through all the inconvenience (and for many, embarrassment) of scheduling a drug test with a laboratory and then going there to take it, at home drug tests allow you to get the [...]

The issue of breast cancer avoidance concerns many women. Opinion polls reveal that 98% of them overestimate the threat. The breast physician, speak you to dispel certain myths about breast cancer. Myth 1. Breast cancer is 1 killer of women This is not true. Women die from cardiovascular diseases eight times more often. In reality [...]

British scientists studying the genetics of aging said on Thursday that experiments on laboratory worms showed that a specific gene is strongly linked to lifespan, immunity and disease resistance. Since the gene, called DAF-16 in worms, is found in many animals and in humans, the finding could open up new ways to affect aging, immunity [...]

Local government officials said Monday they have confiscated ice cream made with human breast milk from a London shop amid concerns the dessert is unsafe. A spokeswoman from Westminster City Council said it was responding to two complaints from the public over whether a shop should be selling edibles made from other people’s bodily fluids [...]

Terrible things happen but there are things you can do to build up emotional resilience. If you can turn them into regular habits, they’re the mental equivalent of vitamins, fresh air and exercise. The first two underline all the rest. Step One is the practice of Gratitude. It’s a housekeeping tool for the heart. In [...]

Black Americans are more likely than whites to have beliefs and perceptions about lung cancer that could interfere with prevention and treatment, new study findings suggest. In the study, researchers analyzed the responses of 1,530 people who were asked questions related to lung cancer as part of the 2005 Health Information National Trends Survey. The [...]

The rate of obesity among U.S. adults may rise rather than slowing down as previously suggested, according to the study by researchers at Harvard University and Massachusettes Institute of Technology. The obesity rate may hit 42 percent by 2050, much higher than previously estimated. The study, published this week in the journal PLoS Computational Biology, [...]

If they occur, surgeons have to perform operations on little babies. Needless to say that it is impossible to find out, whether such a baby would like to grow as a man or a woman. Fortunately, doctors rarely come across cases of abnormal sexual differentiation – the term that is now applied to the phenomenon [...]

Certain bacteria are capable of solving problems people cannot solve. They can consume radiation, produce electricity and oil and even treat cancer. American scientists from a California University decided to create a “supercell” that will do all this simultaneously. Talked to Vitaly Kulikov, a Professor of Biological Science, to find out whether this genetic modification [...]

The greater the drop in cholesterol from taking statin drugs, the more sexual pleasure is reduced, suggests a study at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting in Chicago. This may be the first research to pit statins against placebos to see how the blockbuster statins affect the ability to have orgasms. Statins generated about $13.1 billion [...]