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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Health
- Enjoy Candy Without The Cavities: Good Lollipop Kills Bacteria That Causes Tooth Decay
- Shi and his lab team at the School of Dentistry have managed to make candy that's actually good for your teeth. The orange-flavored, sugar-free lollipop ...infused with a natural ingredient found in licorice that kills the primary bacterium causing tooth decay...
- MIT material stops bleeding in seconds
- MIT and Hong Kong University researchers have shown that some simple biodegradable liquids can stop bleeding in wounded rodents within seconds, a development that could significantly impact medicine.
- Seeking Solitude: 17 Ways to Find Time for Yourself
- Here are a few tips for how you can set aside more time to be by yourself:
- Nine Secrets Health Insurers Don’t Want You to Know
- They make it hard to get the money you’re entitled to. Here’s how to get them to pay.
- Can Your Cell Phone Ruin Your Complexion?
- Just when you thought you heard it all, there is recent evidence coming out that cell phone usage is damaging to your complexion.
- Red-wine diet does a body good
- It is widely accepted that red wine can improve your cardiovascular health. However, few people fully understand why it is so good for you and how to maximize the beverage's health benefits.
- Safety agency slow to publicize hazards: report
- U.S. consumer safety regulators typically take almost seven months to inform the public of dangerous products in cases where the manufacturers were fined for not promptly reporting the defect, watchdog group Public Citizen said on Thursday.
- Physical Activity Keeps Cells Young
- A new report in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests individuals who are physically active during their leisure time appear to be biologically younger than those with sedentary lifestyles.
- FDA Warns of Risks From Epilepsy Drugs
- Epilepsy drugs used by millions of people may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior, the Food and Drug Administration warned ...in an alert to doctors.
- Sports is a strain on fans' hearts
- Talk about heart-stopping games. Studying medical records from the 2006 World Cup soccer tournament in Germany, researchers reported ...that they found the rate of heart attacks for Munich-area residents more than doubled on days that the German national team played.
- Germs and You
- Please watch and enjoy this informative video... before it's too late.
- Blood pressure vaccine maybe on way
- Vaccinating someone against a chronic illness, rather than an infectious disease like measles, isn't as farfetched as it sounds.
- Scientists make bird flu breakthrough
- Scientists are a step closer to cracking the deadly bird flu code following the development of a safe technique to study the virus by Australian researchers.
- Addiction may be linked to hunger
- People whose mothers lived through a famine during their first trimester of pregnancy appear to have a greater risk of addiction, according to a new study, the first to examine that connection.
- US hospitals launch Wiihabilitation | Reg Hardware
- The Wii is proving a hit across the US medical scene. Several US hospitals have admitted using the Nintendo console as an additional method of post-injury patient rehabilitation.
- Genetic-mapping unveiled to test infectious diseases
- A team of scientists unveiled a new playbook Wednesday in the fight against infectious disease outbreaks: Genetic-mapping by computers to find bugs that slip past all other modern medical tests.
- 'Limerence' makes the heart grow far too fonder
- Are you crazy in love or just plain crazy? It all depends on whether new research into a condition called "limerence" leads to the creation of a new psychiatric diagnosis.
- Study: Fat people cheaper to treat
- Preventing obesity and smoking can save lives, but it doesn't save money, researchers reported Monday. It costs more to care for healthy people who live years longer, according to a Dutch study that counters the common perception that preventing obesity would save governments millions of dollars.
- Reaching 100 Is Easier Than Suspected
- Living to 100 is easier than you might think.
- Heat causes chemical to leach from plastic
- A new study may provide a clearer picture of how a controversial chemical called bisphenol A leaches out of plastics.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Health News
- Ten Secrets to Being HAPPY!
- The following are my Top 10 Tips to increase happiness in your life:
- India faces bird flu 'disaster'
- Eight districts in the eastern state of West Bengal have been hit by the virus, with dead birds being sold to locals who are said to be "feasting" on cheap chicken.
- Mobiles linked to disturbed sleep
- Using a mobile phone before going to bed could stop you getting a decent night's sleep, research suggests.
- 10-Fold Life Span Extension Reported
- Biologists have created baker's yeast capable of living to 800 in yeast years without apparent side effects.
- The 6 Most Unsettling Medication Side Effects
- Behold, six side effects that would suck for anyone unlucky enough to experience them, while being indisputably awesome for any onlooker with a video camera and a YouTube account.
- M.D. Anderson's cancer fight turns to toxic toad venom
- A Houston hospital known for seeking the most advanced cancer therapies that modern science can develop is turning its attention to a centuries-old Chinese treatment: toad venom.
- Cold-Fighting Foods
- chicken soup isn’t the only food that might help. Here’s a daily menu based on experts’ recommendations.
- New Study May Have Found a Way to Reverse Alzheimer's...
- An amazing new study, published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation, has documented improvement in the brain of a patient suffering from Alzheimer’s disease within minutes of administrating a therapeutic molecule.
- Hospital wrongly records blood group of kidney transplant...
- The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust has come under the scanner after staff wrongly recorded the blood group of a kidney transplant patient. The error was noticed after the patient had received a new kidney of the wrong blood group.
- Tropical disease hits Darwin
- One person has died and three more are in intensive care in a Darwin hospital after contracting the tropical disease melioidosis.
- Seawater spray cures kids colds-Czech researchers
- For parents worried about how to treat children's colds now that some medicines have been called into question, the answer may be a dose of salt water.
- Molecular Nanobots are the world's smallest robots
- While many in the nanotech establishment dismiss molecular nanobots as science fiction many of the recent breakthroughs in nanobiotech point to the emergence of hybrid biomechanical nanomachines
- Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching
- The globalization of this Westernized industrial model of poultry production has not only facilitated the spread of deadly viruses like H5N1, but also plays a role in their emergence in the first place.
- Deadly Meal..
- However, there are some food out there, though commonly eaten by us, contains toxic that may cause harm when it's not prepared properly.
- High risk of heart attack in winters
- The time period ranging from December 25 to January 25 is the most dangerous period as far as heart attacks are concerned, the study by a group of the capital's leading doctors revealed.
- Bootstrapper » 102 Ways to Slow Down Aging
- Here are a few tips to help keep you healthy as you age.
- A Drug to End Drug Addiction
- Researchers in labs around the world are now developing vaccines (not a pill, but an injection) to inoculate people against dangerously addictive substances such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.
- Does Your Pet Seem Almost Human? It May Be A Clever Response...
- New research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create people in their surroundings to keep them company.
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Monday, January 14, 2008
Health News
- 7 Essential Tips to Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever
- I’d like to share some things I’ve learned about the past two (very great) years, and how you might be able to use them to make this next year your greatest year yet.
- Fun Ways to Live Longer - Have Fun While Aging Healthy and Living Longer
- By understanding how these activities can help you live longer and what to do to get the most benefits, you'll be putting some fun into healthy living.
- Growing New Hearts from Old
- In experiments performed on rats and pigs, the researchers stripped donor hearts of their cells to create scaffolds on which the recipients' cells were grown.
- Consumer Reports’ 10 Ways to be Ripped Off
- According to Consumer Reports latest mailing that I received, here are some items that rip off your money.
- Would you vaccinate your child against cocaine?
- Treatment Online has an interesting piece on the development of a cocaine vaccine. Unlike other drugs that reduce the pleasurable effect of addictive drugs, this is genuinely a vaccine - it persuades the immune system to attack cocaine molecules.
- Super-wine might boost lifespan
- Would you drink wine made from genetically engineered grapes if it had extra benefits?
- My Less than Usual Top Five (plus one) Reasons to be a Vegetarian
- My reasons for being a vegetarian are not quite the usual ones, I think.
- Psychology Today: Dreams: Night School
- Dreaming is so basic to human existence, it's astonishing we don't understand it better. It consumes years of our lives, and no other single activity exerts such a powerful pull on our imaginations.
- 37 Stress Management Tips: Alternatives to Anxiety | Health | Reader's Digest
- For your emotional and bodily benefit, we've consulted experts and come up with 37 easy, natural alternatives to anxiety.
- California's medical marijuana system in 'chaos'
- California's pot shops have admittedly become an easy source of supply for people who just want to get high.
- The Ultimate Weight Loss Guide
- This is the first, last and only weight loss article you will EVER need to read. Only, this is much more than an article. This, my friends, is a guide.
- New Year's Resolutions - Dr. Weil
- Getting healthy need not be overwhelming. Here are six simple, straightforward ways to get on track toward optimum health in the new year.
- researchers find key to stopping cancer in its tracks
- Dr Chris Ward and his team used the ES cells to investigate how some tumours are able to migrate to other parts of the body, which makes the treatment of cancer much more difficult. He believes his work could lead to new treatments and stop 80-90% of cancers in their tracks.
- 10 Celebrity Health Secrets for 10 Days
- By making just one change a day – and taking a cue from celebrities – get on your way to a healthy 2008!
- Brain Exercises for the Weekend
- Harriet Vines, Ph.D., an experienced author and retired college professor, sends us a few fun brain exercises to train our attention and working memory
- Bird Flu Good news at last!
- By adding an agent that stimulates the immune system, it appears that the existing vaccine is effective against various strains of the bird flu virus.
- Universal flu jab works in people
- A single jab that could give lifelong protection against all types of flu has produced promising results in human trials.
- 20 Super Brain Foods
- The foods listed below can help you: concentrate, increase memory, tune sensorimotor skills, keep you motivated, speed up your reaction time, control stress, and even slow down the aging of brain cells!
- Tips for Preventing Colds and the Flu: Keeping the Germs Away
- 23 ways to stay healthy year-round
- Health Effects of Clutter
- “It isn’t a house problem,” he went on. “It’s a person problem. The person needs to fundamentally change their behavior.” Excessive clutter and disorganization are often symptoms of a bigger health problem.
- Reversal Of Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes In Human Study
- An extraordinary new scientific study, which for the first time documents marked improvement in Alzheimer’s disease within minutes of administration of a therapeutic molecule, has just been published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation.
- Key To Avian Flu In Humans Discovered
- MIT researchers have uncovered a critical difference between flu viruses that infect birds and humans, a discovery that could help scientists monitor the evolution of avian flu strains and aid in the development of vaccines against a deadly flu pandemic.
- Sex Your Way to Better Health
- A Dozen Reasons Why You Should Have Sex Tonight
- 10 Foolproof Tips for Better Sleep
- I didn't want to take medication and this led me to learn several tips and tricks that really helped me to overcome my insomnia.
- Healthy living 'can add 14 years'
- Taking exercise, not drinking too much alcohol, eating enough fruit and vegetables and not smoking can add up to 14 years to your life, a study says.
- The Amazing Benefits of Sleep
- ...when you stop, or pause long enough to think about sleep, and it’s many benefits, you’ll soon realize sleep is just as important to your overall health as exercise, prayer and eating the right food.
- Less Organization, Less Stress?
- The authors suggest that not only can less organization = less stress, but that it can free personal creativity.
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Health News
- Articles on Condoms and Safe Sex Resources, Relationship...
- One shortage that does not get as much press, however, is the condom shortage that is happening across the globe.
- Build Big Muscles Fast: Secrets of Total Body Muscle Building
- Want to build Big Huge Muscles? Then you must Squat!
- Keep Your Skin Look Younger During Holidays With Yoga!
- Among the well known natural skin care solutions, yoga is an effective one. Yoga helps in various aspects of your skin’s health. Here are some benefits of yoga in your skin care:
- Protectionism and My Stuffy Nose - Mises Institute
- ...Congress and the administration passed the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005, which rations the amount you can buy and requires that you prove your identity and sign a special form.
- Secrets of Weight Loss
- Just in time for 2008 New Year's resolutions, eight tips for losing weight.
- The World's Most Dangerous Drug - Methamphetamine
- Meth really is the mother of all drugs. It's the cheapest, dirtiest and most powerful drug in existence today. It's also the fastest spreading. Meth doesn't kill its addicts immediately. The process is slow, ...Meth literally rots people's bodies—teeth, face and insides.
- Stress: It's Worse Than You Think
- Psychological stress doesn't just put your head in a vise. New studies document exactly how it tears away at every body system--including your brain. But get this: The experience of stress in the past magnifies your reactivity to stress in the future.
- Genital Herpes Pictures not a sight to behold
- Medical students and medical professionals ...are able to face the reality and look at what most of us would rather not. What am talking about here is the genital herpes pictures.
- 5 Reasons Why it matters to have the best looking breasts in the health club
- Boob jobs in the environment of the fitness club
- Hospitals Look to Nuclear Tool to Fight Cancer
- There is a new nuclear arms race under way — in hospitals. Medical centers are rushing to turn nuclear particle accelerators, formerly used only for exotic physics research, into the latest weapons against cancer.
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