Petting Cancer
Doctors checking x-rays and cat scans for tumors have long faced a dilemma when they do find a suspicious spot. There’s been no way to tell whether or not the spot’s actually cancer without...
Monthly Archive: June 2011
No More Morning Sickness
Pregnancy is a time when women are supposed to have that “glow.” However, if you suffer from morning sickness, the nausea and vomiting can make you feel anything but radiant. For those who haven’t...
Washing Hands
It’s so simple, but so hard for some people to do. And it’s such a critical way to stop people from getting sick. Even medical schools teach it to soon-to-be doctors. Day care centers...
Heart Card
Imagine you feel your heart pounding. Is it a heart attack or just indigestion? If you’re a heart patient, you know the frustration of trying to describe your symptoms to your doctor after the...
Kidney Saver
About 10,000 life-saving kidney transplants are performed each year in the United States. The critical period comes after surgeons do their job. A drug helps patients live normal lives. A year after she was...
Road Tip
It’s National Safety Month. Rev your mind with these driver safety reminders: Hang up the phone. The Institute of Highway Safety suggests you’re 4 times more likely to crash while chatting on your mobile…...
digg Preventing Birth Defects
There are nearly 3,000 pregnancies each year in the United States where babies have birth defects of the brain and spine known as neural tube defects (NTD). Hispanic women have the highest rate of...
Fighting Malaria
Malaria is a parasitic disease caused by Plasmodium and results in more than 750,000 deaths annually, but what if there was a more effective approach to curing it? Malaria is transported from one person...
How Alcohol Damages the Brain
Although alcohol affects many areas in the body, the brain is the primary target. Previously, not much was known about the molecular mechanisms by which alcohol alters brain activity, but now researchers have discovered...
BEST Beauty Sites
For discovering new products and lots of free samples Beautyhabit.com Beautyofasite.com Beautysak.com Bluemercury.com These sites carry a well-curated selection of high-end, trendy, and hard-to-find brands of makeup and skin-care products. You can shop by...
What is Vitamin B17?
Vitamin B17 was the name given to the purified form of Amygdalin by a biochemist named Ernst T Krebs in 1952. It is a non-toxic natural product found in over 1,000 foods. Today Amygdalin...
Smite the Mite
If your nose constantly begs for a tissue, your eyes tear and burn, and you hear the word Gesundheit several times a day, you might be suffering from a dust mite allergy. But even...
Home Grown Physique
Though the outdoors beckons you for physical activity, scorching temperatures, humid air, and pesky bugs may shun your efforts. A fitness facility might be a cooler alternative, but fiscal cinching has forced many to...
Intervention for Prostate Cancer Patients
The side effects of prostate cancer treatment can cause depression and emotional distress in men. A new study outlines intervention therapies for helping men deal with these adverse side effects. Researchers in North Carolina...
A Kinder, Gentler Death
Seven out of ten Americans say they want to die at home, yet 75 percent die in medical institutions. Nearly half of Americans die in pain, surrounded and treated by strangers. These are statistics...
A Clearer View
You’ve probably seen x-rays at your doctor’s office. To the untrained eye, the image can look pretty vague and murky. Sometimes they’re not much better for doctors. Now, doctors are studying a new technology...
Cancer Probe
Women who have fought breast cancer often find themselves in limbo. Has their cancer spread or not? Now, a new technique could help those women by finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. As...
The Risk Factor
Nearly $1 out of every $7 spent on health care in the United States is spent on diabetes. Now 4,000 people are now taking part in the largest diabetes prevention study ever done. They...
Red Flags
While Old Glory symbolizes the spirit of a nation, flags raised by your body often denote something more physical in nature: illness. Be on alert for these subtle cues that could signify a sinister...
Long-term Medial Benefits of Vitamin D
Vitamin D plays a huge role in your health. The most important area in the past has been bone health in children and adults, but many researchers think that vitamin D’s other functions may...
7 Beauty Treatments to Avoid
If you’re considering a little nip and tuck, you should also think about whether that nipping is really worth trucking away lots of paychecks to cover the costs. Some widely used treatments are not...
Sugar by Any Other Name
A sugary treat may settle your sweet tooth, but that’s where its cordial kiss ends. After peeling away that tooth’s enamel, it slithers into your bloodstream where it raises your risk for diabetes, heart...
New Vitamin D Advice
After vitamin D became hot a few years ago, people started popping supplements. The vitamin made headlines because of research that suggested it protects against some major, heavy-hitting health problems, such as heart disease...
Asthma Alert
If you or someone in your family relies on Primatene Mist epinephrine spray to help control wheezing and other mild asthma symptoms, talk with your doctor about other options. After almost 50 years on...
Diabetes is on the Rise, But Prevention Can Help
Could you or a family member be among the more than 6.2 million people in the United States with type 2 diabetes? Type 2 diabetes is on the rise in the Bay Area. As...
Is Your Daughter Ready to See a Gynecologist?
Puberty can be a challenging stage in a girl’s life. And as a parent, you may find it hard to believe that your little girl is becoming a woman. Still, experts say now is...
Make the Most of Your Medications
Today’s medicines treat a wide range of ailments— from chronic conditions like heart disease or diabetes, to shortterm problems such as infections and rashes. However, the effectiveness and safety of any medication depends on...
Green About the Gills
Air pockets often pick on plane travelers, and seemingly smooth roads can be rough on the car’s occupants. Even an ocean wave isn’t a friendly greeting for some cruise passengers. Unfortunately, more than 50%...
From Panic To Power
If you’re expecting something earth-shattering, a magic bullet to transform the person held captive by anxiety into a self-confident world-conqueror, look elsewhere. Lucinda Bassett’s book, while promising in its painstakingly laid-out approach to overcoming...
Checking Out Where Vitamin D Comes From
Outside the body, vitamin D comes from three major sources: • The Sun • Food • Supplements Sun The sun has provided vitamin D for thousands of years. However, the sun is also known...