Does the weekend leave you wiped and hating the start of the week? WebMD's guide on how to stave off fatigue by improving your diet and spirit offers simple lifestyle changes that should help fight irritability, stress, and fatigue, resulting in quality, restful sleep.
Health Articles from PETER THOMAS - Chaste Tree The dried fruit or berry of the chaste tree is often referred to as Monk's pepper or chasteberry; it was historically thought to reduce libido or promote chast
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I’ve found a way to save the bees and save your itchy, watery, allergy eyes. And, no, it doesn’t come in an orange prescription bottle or costly over-the-counter remedy. It comes from my favorite source –- nature. Yesterday I
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Food should be our source of natural remedy. It should not surprise anybody, but most people prefer expensive pills to everyday food as natural cure. Why not change that today?
The popular anti-wrinkle drug Botox and a competitor have been linked to dangerous botulism symptoms in some users, cases so bad that a few children given the drugs for muscle spasms have died, the government warned Friday.
Exercise can protect against everything from heart attacks and cancer to depression and erectile dysfunction, but the New York Times focuses on how working out also helps with ailments you're
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If you have ever struggled to understand the world around you, help is at hand. Here, from the pages of the Reader's Digest book 1001 Science Questions Answered, are the solutions for 13 everyday mysteries.
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Science has given us some amazing inventions over the centuries. Personally I'm a big fan of the light bulb (thanks Thomas) and the Wright brothers were
The National Safety Council has been compiling and reporting on injury data every year since the 1920s. The table below was prepared in response to frequent inquiries to the Council concerning the odds of dying from or being killed by a specific incident or occurrence such as a lightning strike or a plane crash.
This year's Nightclub & Bar Show may well go down in history as the largest gathering of wide-awake drinkers ever assembled in one place. Big Alcohol -- the likes of Anheuser-Busch (BUD), SABMiller and Fortune Brands (FO) -- is well-represented among the exhibitors at the annual trade event. But perhaps the most numerous (and loudest) of the booths belong to energy drinks, hangover cures and various forms of caffeinated hooch aimed at the younger crowd that wants to party all night long and still feel no pain the next day. Among the newest products in the genre is
An Ohio man claims that the tip of his finger grew back after applying an extra cellular matrix derived from pig bladders. The powder has high levels of collagen and was originally developed to repair ligaments in horses.
What do brain surgeons know about cellphone safety that the rest of us don’t? Last week, three prominent neurosurgeons told the CNN interviewer Larry King that they did not hold cellphones next to their ears. “I think the safe practice,” said Dr. Keith Black, a surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, “is to use an earpiece so you keep the microwave antenna away from your brain.”
Babies born by elective caesarean are almost 2½ times more likely to die within their first month than babies born vaginally, researchers have found, adding weight to the argument that caesareans should only be carried out in emergencies. The study, which involved more than 8 million births in the US over four years, is the first of its kind to focus on full-term babies born to women with no medical reason for choosing a caesarean over a vaginal delivery, an increasingly common phenomenon in Australia. One in three babies is now born by caesarean section, up from about one in five 10 years ago, but those born before the onset of labour are often unresponsive and unable to breathe without help.
Nikhil Swaminathan writes in Scientific American:In what could be a breakthrough in cancer therapy, researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine that they succeeded in bolstering a patient's immune system enough to wipe out late-stage malignant tumors on its own. The scientists say the successful experiment could pave the way for new treatments of advanced cancer that spare patients the side effects of chemotherapy, which kills healthy as well as malignant cells.This is not the first time that researchers attempted to use immunotherapy — or a patient's own infection-fighting cells—to try to destroy tumors. But researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle say this is the first time such a therapy worked on its own, without combining it with drugs or chemotherapy.Lead study author Cassian Yee, an immunologist, says that he and his team removed so-called CD4+ T cells from a 52-year-old man with stage IV (the most advanced) melanoma—the deadliest form of skin cancer; it had spread to a lung and a groin lymph node. The researchers grew T cells in the lab until they had a population they believed was large enough to destroy the cancer.
The director of a leading US cancer research institute has sent a memo to thousands of staff warning of possible higher risks from mobile phone use. Ronald Herberman, of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, said users should not wait for definitive studies on the risk and should take action now. He said children should use mobiles in emergencies only and adults should try to keep the phone away from the head. No major academic study has confirmed a link to higher brain-tumour risks. Dr Herberman said his warning was based on early findings from unpublished data.
Botox treatment involves the injection of small amounts of botulinum, one of the deadliest known naturally occurring poisons. The idea is that after being shot into your face, the substance stays there and does not travel to brain and spinal cord via the body's nerve cells, but-- whoops! turns out it does! Apparently, the FDA’s database reveals thousands of “adverse events” as well as 16 deaths resulting from use of Botox, and new studies on lab rats are revealing that it damages the nervous system.
If it really is what's on the inside that counts, then a lot of thin people might be in trouble. Some doctors now think that the internal fat surrounding vital organs like the heart, liver or pancreas — invisible to the naked eye — could be as dangerous as the more obvious external fat that bulges underneath the skin.
Whether we like it or not, our bodies are constantly making noises—and while most are harmless indicators of day-to-day biology at work, some are signals that something's wrong. An
Young children whose parents read aloud to them have better language and literacy skills when they go to school, according to a review published online ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Most geeks know who Ray Kurzweil is. Most musicians do too, and so do many blind people. Kurzweil has invented so many things in so many different fields,
The use of man-made nanoparticles has been banned in British products that want a sometimes-valuable organic label from the Soil Association. The group laid out the first organic standard in
A YOUNG Melbourne woman who almost died after a Brazilian waxing went wrong was just one of 90 women hospitalised with waxing injuries in Victoria last year.
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