The Ebola outbreak will last 12 - 18 months more.
As people age, they feel different kinds of body pains, but yet they need to continue with their daily routine, including having sex. Since sexual activities normally involve pelvic or hip movements, some lovemaking positions that were easy to engage in during their younger days become more difficult and cause back pain.
Sleeping optimally helps you to enhance your efficiency and turn in quick, quality work.
Biker Lance Armstrong used to be the poster boy of testicular cancer recovery, but his sports scandal has diminished his credibility and effectiveness since stories written about the athlete often focus on his doping problem and stripping of medals and relegate his beating the ailment to a small portion of the article. Thomas Cantley, a 31-year-old survivor of the same ailment, hopes to create awareness about the disease, sans a controversy, that could perhaps draw the proper attention to the ai...
The Ebola virus is on the rampage, especially in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
John Mauremootoo married Julie Macfarlane to keep his promise to his wife Clare Mauremootoo, who died of motor neurone disease.
The Global Commission on Drug Policy wants to go beyond the legalisation of marijuana but would recommend on Tuesday, Sept 16, the decriminalisation and regulation of the use of most other illegal drugs such as heroin and cocaine.
The number of people killed by the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa has reached 2,296, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday, with the tally expected to still increase in the coming days.
The Oakley Trinity Housing Association set aside its plan to operate a 24-bed facility for alcohol-dependent people on its Nazareth House site in Bishop Street. The group scrapped the idea due to negative response from residents who opposed the project.
Fresh data released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) showed that on an average day, 3.2 million young adults used marijuana, 57,304 used heroin, 51,319 used cocaine, 46,179 used hallucinogens and 17,868 used inhalants.
If one who is infected with the disease needs to have diagnosis early, each hours delay in treatment increases the risk at 8%.
Poor and inadequate sleep leads to shrinkage of the gray matter in the brain over a period of time, researchers from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom said.
Handsome men or men with masculine faces have lower quality of sperm, suggests a study conducted at the University of Valencia in Spain. The findings were published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Forty-year-old Amanda Davey, from Southport ran and fell down, nearly breaking her neck, after participating in an ice bucket challenge.
Sleeping on animal skin or animal fur, especially in the first three months of a baby’s life, reduces the risk of developing asthma and allergies, reveals a study.
Electronic (E) cigarettes can save thousands of life if all smokers switch to e-cigarettes instead of normal tobacco cigarettes, say researchers from the University College London (UCL).
Research shows that first impressions can help you judge a person's character.
Research shows that "seven distinct muscle groups" join hands to create your angry look.
A study by the Faculty of Medicine at the Umea University in Sweden has found that neurons in the skin have the ability to think.
After Angelina Jolie revealed that she had a preventative double mastectomy done on her since she was at a higher genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancer, many women are considering genetic testing to see if they carried genes that put them at a higher risk of acquiring breast and ovarian cancer.
A recent study showed that low-carb diets are healthier.
The 79-year-old Mary Berry, who is a judge on the popular TV show The Great British Bake Off, in an interview with Radio Times, said that she would not like to live beyond 90 years of age.
Australia saw a jump on cigarette taxes by 13.7 per cent on Monday, thereby pushing the rates to $1 per cigarette.
Microbes can mark you out, intrude into your health domain, and leave traces of your identity everywhere.
The purity of crystal methamphetamine, also called ice, had gone up 20 per cent the past four years in Australia, according to Sam Biondo, head of the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association.
The advantage of eating healthy food is enormous, apart from the fact that you will be able to get all the extra pounds off your body.
Listening to one’s favourite music and songs can make you nostalgic and take you down the memory lane.
Health workers, including alcohol treatment providers, expressed concern that the prioritisation given to alcohol harm might not trickle to them especially on additional funding.
The wonder drug shows some indication to fight the viral outbreak.
A British couple named Brett and Nagmeh King were arrested in Malaga, Spain, after they took their five-year-old son with cancer, Ashya King, from a hospital in Britain without doctors' consent to seek advanced medical treatment.
