HEALTH & WELLBEING

A dead taxi driver from the U.K. became the first man in 3,000 years to be mummified like ancient Egypt's pharaohs; his body will not decompose for several millennia.

Commercial apple and pear growers in Australia have expressed dismay after a Senate Estimates hearing on Monday heard that Australian quarantine officials have rejected just under a quarter of consignments of New Zealand apples.

E. coli or Escherichia coli are a common type of bacteria that is found in unclean food, usually contaminated due to careless toilet habits. E. coli can get a person really sick if these bacteria found a way into someone's system. Unfortunately, a mobile phone has been revealed to be a common E. coli vessel due to users' poor hygiene.

A woman who is under pressure is more likely to get pregnant with a girl, according to a new study by researchers from Oxford University and the U.S.

Yesterday, we published a groundbreaking article exposing the total media hoax that has been running in the mainstream media over the past week or so.

Researchers at the Ohio State University have discovered a new way to administer gene therapy agents without a needle.

Eating the right foods can help you avoid the risk of cancer. According to the chief of the Nutritional Sciences Research Group of the National Cancer Institute choosing the right diet can help you avoid getting cancer.

A growing number of children in Australia are getting more hooked on marijuana use. Data shows that children as young as 10 use marijuana and other drugs more than alcohol.

Prominent celebrity Amy Winehouse was reportedly killed by an overdose of alcohol and Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), a psychoactive substance that heighten the user’s emotional feelings.

The first drugs for a slower aging process could exist within five to 10 years, after which people could eventually live up to 150 years old or older, researchers from the University of NSW said.

Individuals, who get addicted to crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as ice, are unable to sleep or eat. This condition is usually followed with the user breaking down and sleeping for several days.

Medical experts urge expectant women to take a sufficient dosage of Folic acid during the initial stages of their pregnancy.

More Australians who are into drugs are using metamphetamine or ice to get stoned. According to the latest National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), in the last six months the number of ice users rose to 45 per cent from 39 per cent in 2010.

Thieves have broken into the Red Cross blood bank in Melbourne between Sunday night and Monday morning. However, they did not take any blood supply or cash, only two plasma TV sets worth $1,000, a camera and a mobile phone.

Have you ever been bothered by your wives’ constant prodding to see a doctor, drink medicine, stop smoking, run, walk, move your body? If so, don’t be. New study suggests that this could be your extra lifeline.

Police warn parents about new teen trick of soaking the soft chewable candy in alcohol.

River Ranch Fresh Food, LLC of Salinas, California voluntarily recalled bagged salad because of possible listeria contamination, MSN reports.

Have you read the NaturalNews report just published about Walgreens customers feeling verbally harassed by Walgreens employees at the checkout counter over flu shots?

A clinic in Ottawa may have infected 6,800 patients with HIV and hepatitis over a 10-year period after health inspectors learned that its doctor had lapses in cleaning medical instruments.

Ongoing concerns about the safety of eating fish caught in Gladstone Harbour, central Queensland, have led the owners of the city’s largest fish market to refuse fish caught in the harbour.

Scientists have mapped out the so-called "dark matter" found in the human genome. This discovery could lead to more research that can pinpoint genetic causes in various diseases.

More than 1.7 million Australians will suffer from Macular Degeneration in the next 20 years, according to a Dekoitte Access Economics report. The figures shows a remarkable rise of 70 % in the prevalence of the leading cause of blindness in Australia.

Bacteria are so associated with pathogenic issues meaning disease-causing entities. It is so widespread, yet minute that it is easy to consider it as almost inanimate. In reality, bacteria is not associated only with diseases, but may be found on top of the mountains, deep down oceans, animal gut, man, frozen ancient rocks and ice of Antartica.

Intimacy has their benefits, but for a 54-year-old American woman one intense encounter caused her to temporarily lose her memory, which doctors explained was due to transient global amnesia.

Vitamin E, also known as tocopherol, was long believed to be a potent antioxidant that protects cell membranes and other fat-soluble parts of the body, such as low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol from damage. It was also believed to protect the body against cardiovascular disease and certain forms of cancer and has demonstrated immune-enhancing effects.

Treating cancer is BIG business in America -- in fact, it's a $200 billion a year business. Yet 98 percent of conventional cancer treatments not only FAIL miserably, but are also almost guaranteed to make cancer patients sicker.

Treating cancer is BIG business in America -- in fact, it's a $200 billion a year business. Yet 98 percent of conventional cancer treatments not only FAIL miserably, but are also almost guaranteed to make cancer patients sicker.

The pet products industry is burgeoning, as 2011 figures released by the American Pet Products Association (APPA) show that Americans now spend more than $50 billion a year on food, supplies, and veterinarian care for their pets -- up nearly 300 percent since 1994.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Bali, Indonesia Thursday and the 14-year-old Australian boy detained at the police headquarters in Denpasar, the island's capital, was unhurt.