Our belief that life is the securest within the safety of the mother’s womb is being turned upside down by recent studies. It had been proved by earlier studies that when mother is exposed to polluted environment, the toxins formed in the mother’s... 

Viagra treats erectile dysfuntion by widening arteries. Viagra’s active ingredient also has been approved, under the name Revatio, to treat pulmonary hypertension, the condition raising blood pressure in the lungs. And that’s why researchers... 

Borrowing a line from President Obama’s playbook, the Centers for Disease Control said today that community organizing for change is necessary — in this case to deal with the obesity crisis. Focusing on community-based changes, not individuals’... 

Big changes to food products could be coming by manipulating particles on a very small scale. By examining the properties of matter so tiny that 100,000 of them equal the thickness of a single sheet of paper, food scientists are hoping to make food healthier... 

A lot of us take our dinner right in front of the TV. Seems relaxing enough, but if your aim is weight loss, then you may want to think about moving away from the TV. Research has found that kids who watched TV while eating lunch ate a whopping 228 more... 

  With obesity reaching epidemic proportions and the number of severely obese increasing day-by-day, new techniques are being developed to lose weight with minimum effort and risk. Till date, severe obesity required surgical procedures like lap band... 

  Many countries worldwide, including the US and Britain may be left empty-handed in the quest for swine flu vaccine. The contracts signed by these countries with pharmaceutical companies might not hold water and might be broken with ease, when the... 

It seems as if so much of the information out there about natural medicine either glorifies or vilifies this long held tradition. The truth about holistic health care is difficult to come by because it’s often influenced by the prejudices of those... 

Scanning for calcium deposits in the walls of the arteries around the heart can help detect coronary artery disease — the most common form of heart disease in the U.S. — but the CT scans that are used for the screening come at a cost: an... 

A recent study has found that people who have depression, anxiety and drug or alcohol dependence in their family history are not only more prone to these conditions, they are also likely to need more treatment and they will suffer more severely. In New...