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The researchers compared processed meat with unprocessed red meat and found that the former does more harm to the heart. Eating processed meat may increase the risk for heart disease and even diabetes, U.S. researchers suggest. “To lower risk of heart attacks and diabetes, people should avoid eating too much processed meats for example ; [...]

Hide the chocolate milk behind the plain milk. Get those apples and oranges out of stainless steel bins and into pretty baskets. These subtle moves can entice kids to make healthier choices in school lunch lines, studies show. Food and restaurant marketers have long used similar tricks. Now the government wants in on the act. [...]

A few months ago the United Nations published a report about illicit drugs consumption during the year of 2007. The conclusion was that 208 million people – 4,8% of the World’s adult population – had used illicit drugs, at least, once a year. It was also found that the “regulars” – classified as drugs addicts [...]

Youth and beauty will always be in fashion. This makes the interest to Botox injections remain acute for many years. Wrinkles-free face looks youthful and charming. There is much debate about Botox, some good, some bad. Its application in cosmetology is a great achievement but not a miracle. It does have certain disadvantages. In 1970, [...]

Consumers who opt for organic foods often believe they are improving their health, but there is currently no strong evidence that organics bring nutrition-related health benefits, a new research review finds. A “disappointingly small” number of well-designed studies have looked at whether organic foods may have health benefits beyond their conventional counterparts’, according to the [...]

About 208 people have died from a cholera epidemic in Haiti and more than 2,600 others were infected in the worst public health disaster to strike the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation. Health officials said Saturday that 194 people died from cholera in the Artibonite region, north of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, and 14 others died [...]

People who are depressed eat more chocolate than people who are not, US researchers said on Monday, in a study that puts numbers behind the link between mood and chocolate. They said people who were depressed ate an average of 8.4 servings of chocolate per month, compared with 5.4 servings among those who were not. [...]

Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have created an experimental vaccine against beta-amyloid, the small protein that forms plaques in the brain and is believed to contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease, the Center said Friday in a press release. Compared with similar so-called DNA vaccines that the UT Southwestern researchers [...]

Avandia, a drug often prescribed to patients with diabetes, may have caused millions of heart attacks around the world. This is the conclusion of a 334-page report submitted by the U.S. Senate. According to the American authorities, the GlaxoSmith-Kline (GSK), pharmaceutical company that produces the drug, knew the risks to which patients were exposed, but [...]

A consortium of cancer researchers has identified four chromosome locations with genetic changes that are likely to alter a woman’s risk of developing ovarian cancer. The findings appear Sunday in an article in Nature Genetics. Researchers say that while more needs to be learned about the function of the specific chromosomal regions involved in susceptibility, [...]

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 [...]