Winters can be trying for many who associate this time with increased lethargy, depression, insomnia, carbohydrate cravings and weight gain. This is due to increased darkness during these months. Now Royal Philips Electronics has come out with their goLITE BLU
There is a little known item in the foot care market. Dr. Group's Organic Foot Pads are the lesser known cousins of the famous Kinoki foot pads. These pads apparently help in removal of harmful chemicals and heavy metal toxins
President-elect Barack Obama's plans to overhaul the U.S. health care system would cost the federal government $75 billion but would provide health insurance for 95 percent of Americans, consulting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers said on Wednesday.This works out to about $2,500 per
Search engine giant Google launched a new tool on Tuesday that will help U.S. federal health experts track the annual flu epidemic.Google Flu Trends uses search terms that people put into the Web-based search engine to figure out where influenza
A new UCLA School of Nursing study is the first to reveal the devastating consequences of smoking on the nursing profession. Published in the November/December edition of Nursing Research, the findings describe smoking trends and death rates among U.S. nurses
RA -- a painful, inflammatory form of arthritis -- occurs when the body's immune system attacks itself. A molecule called Foxp3 plays an important role in immune system regulation. People who lack or have mutated versions of the Foxp3 gene
Comprehensive coverage includes open access to seven smoking-cessation medications and three forms of counseling that are recommended to treat nicotine addiction by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The medications include over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapies and two non-nicotine
It's raised a whole new set of questions that are going to be really important to answer to get us to a successful vaccine," said Dr. Susan P. Buchbinder, lead author of a study published online Nov. 13 in The
In real acupuncture, fine needles are inserted into particular points on the body. In placebo acupuncture, blunt needles that look identical to real acupuncture needles retract into the handle of the needle when pressed on the skin, but still give
You shouldn't treat a cold -- always caused by a virus -- with antibiotics, since these medicines are meant to treat bacterial infections. But there are things you can do to feel better while the cold runs its course.
Caffeine is a stimulant. When you consume it, it is delivered across the placenta to your baby, whose metabolism can't process the stimulant like an adult's metabolism.
This is a time of economic crisis around the world, but also a time of crisis in the U.S. health-care system," Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund, which conducted the survey, said during a teleconference Tuesday. "The survey findings
More than 1,000 people with early signs of AMD were given a 10-item questionnaire asking them to rate their difficulties with night driving and low-light activities like reading or watching movies, then were followed annually for up to six years.
A 15-year-old Indonesian girl has died of bird flu in central Java, a health official said on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll from the disease to 113.The girl died last week after being treated at the Doctor Karyadi hospital
The hardest-to-treat form of drug-resistant tuberculosis is a growing threat in many parts of the world, but remains quite rare in the United States, U.S. government health researchers said on Tuesday.From 1993 through 2007, there were 83 cases of extensively
British scientists have figured out why some women develop resistance to the most commonly used breast cancer drug, something that raises the risk their tumours will return, according to a study published on Wednesday.The findings could lead to new tests
While men still fare better, fewer younger women are dying in the hospital after an acute heart attack than in the recent past, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.Earlier studies had found women under 55 died at about twice the rate
Men and women who get heart transplants are more likely to die when the donor was of the opposite sex, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.The cause is not clear but could be due to size differences in the heart—men's tend
Results of a study in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry suggest that an individualized rehabilitation program effectively reduces disability in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS)."Persons with MS are expected to have a normal lifespan and live for many
