30th April 2006
According to latest research, high dosage of a strong cholesterol-lowering drug seems to reverse heart disease - not only prevent it from getting worse.
People involved in the study got their "bad cholesterol" to the lowest levels ever and, as a result...
27th April 2006
According to scientists from Rotterdams Erasmus Medical Center in The Netherlands, people who had symptoms of depression in their childhood, are later more prone to look for consolation in Ecstasy - a mood-enhancing drug.
Regular taking of Ecstasy ma...
25th April 2006
Another natural remedy failed, or at least did not meet expectations, in the main medical journals. Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate — two health supplements for painful joints, most popular in the West – did not manage to measure up to scientific exa...
25th April 2006
A new study has found that increasing levels of obesity have caused a crisis of Type 2 diabetes in children.
The number developing so called "adult" or type 2 diabetes - which normally afflicts overweight middle-aged people - has increased 10-fold in t...
20th April 2006
According to a recent study, women who use the Ortho Evra birth-control patch are at double risk of developing blood clots than those taking oral contraceptives, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.
However, the agency said that presented resu...
18th April 2006
What influence does the physical activity have on weight loss program for people who are overweight?
The answer is not difficult: the number of calories you burn up during the day must be higher than the number you consume in your meals.
If you burn...
14th April 2006
The scientists were very disappointed when announcing on Tuesday, that putting elder women on a low-fat diet did not decrease their risk of breast or colon cancer or heart disease, as they had hoped before.
However, they noted that the results should n...
13th April 2006
For many years older women have been advised by their physicians to take calcium and vitamin D pills to protect their bones as they age.
But according to the latest and the biggest research ever conducted to examine the value of that timeworn advice, c...
05th April 2006
According to recent research, smoking cigarettes incredibly increases the risk of vision loss due to age-related macular degeneration. What's more, that risk hits not only smokers but also people living with them.
Macular degeneration is a progressive ...
03rd April 2006
New research suggests that wearing a helmet during skiing or snowboarding down the slopes can reduce the risk of head injury by 60 percent.
A study that appears in the the Feb. 22 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that in...
02nd April 2006
When the weather is cold and the sky is gray, some people tend to feel sad and unhappy. But these feelings are nothing in comparison with serious, chronic depression that is resistant to any kind of treatment.
Psychiatrist Hank Kaplan, D.O., considers ...
01st April 2006
A new research states that children suffering from depression may face severe medical problems in their adult life, especially obesity and asthma.
During 20 years of research, experts found depressed teenagers under age 17 had an increased risk of obes...
01st April 2006
Young people should be encouraged to eat healthy food at school. However, the best way to ameliorate their diets is not through legal actions but through local initiatives supported by state law. The first step to achieve that goal is a proposal to get su...
01st April 2006
What whole grains are? The first federal definition can help you to find out whether your favorite cereal, crackers, pasta and everyday bread are whole-grain.
Eric Hentges, executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Center for Nutrition...
01st April 2006
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the average American consumes the equivalent of about 20 teaspoons of sugar per day, between meals, drinks and snacks.
A great deal of people choose artificial sweeteners like saccharin and aspartame ...
