It is time for your hard working feet to take a break. Whether your feet need a boost before going summertime bare or your pedicure is a gift you give to a loved one’s tired toes, pedicures are easy to do at home. Whether you are doing it for yourself or someone else, the procedure is the…
Nothing signals the arrival of winter quite as well as the common cold. We've all experienced the common cold a number of times in the past: your throat gets dry and ticklish and you lose control of every fluid that can potential come out of your face. These colds are a natural phenom…
Stomach gas is an extremely universal problem which largely results due to improper eating habits. Just as the problem is extremely common, so has modern medicine derived novel ways to keep the problems in check - antacids. How modern antacids work? As the name suggests, antacids work by …
What is preeclampsia? Once known as toxemia, it is caused by a defect in the placenta which causes a pregnant woman's blood pressure to rise, endangering mother and baby. Affecting about 7% all pregnancies, it is the most common of the serious complications of pregnancy. About one in …
Researchers reported that coffee and tea may reduce the risk of liver damage, that is resulted by overweight, excessive alcohol intake and having too much iron in the blood. As reported in XinHua : The study, conducted by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease…
Herceptin, the cancer drug for late-stage breast cancer patients, is also effective for women with early-stage of breast cancer. But it is said that the drug will cause heart damage. However, researchers has also found the way to reduce the risk, that is by chemotherapy regimen. A study c…
Researchers concluded that giving baby a dummy during sleep may reduce cot death risk or sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) as much as 90 percents. Dummies usually have a bulky external handle, that could make sure that air reaches the nose or mouth when the baby’s face is buried by be…
US Scientists have discovered how malignant cancer spread around the body and then prevent the spread. The experiment on mice shows that cancers use bone morrow cells to spread tumors in the body. Initially, growth factors released by the primary tumour trigger the production of an adhesi…
New drugs for gout and ulcerative colitis, two kinds of disease that plague millions of people worldwide, have been found as results of studies reported in New England Journal of Medicine. In America only, about 3 million of people (mostly men) suffer from gout disease and 700.000 have ul…
Recent study conducted by researchers from Ohio State University (OSU) College of Nursing and School of Public Health and supported by National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), one of National Institutes of Health (NIH), shows that childhood weight problems linked to mom's obesit…