HEALTH & WELLBEING

Twins joined at their heads were successfully separated at a British hospital last month. A charity helping disfigured children funded the risky surgery. The twins' operating team noted there's significant blood flow between their brains, making the surgery very risky. Nevertheless, the separation means the girls can live a normal mobile life after having been literally at each others' head for 11 months.

The world's largest sperm bank is refusing donations from men who are redheaded because there is just not enough demand for their sperm.

In South Australia, a two-day-old baby boy died in sling hanging on his mother’s body. The mother of the baby noticed that the infant felt cold and stopped breathing.

Nurturing your health and well being can be a great task. You have to observe for guidelines to make it successful. From the preferred diet up to the routine of exercise, must be planned thoroughly to make everything work.

Qualitest Pharmaceuticals, unit of Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc., is voluntarily recalling multiple lots of birth-control pills because of a packaging error that could lead to incorrect dosing. The error may leave women without adequate contraception and risk for unintended pregnancy, the WebMed reports.

British surgeons have successfully separated Sudanese twins joined at the top of their heads, and the babies are now recovering well.

Researchers from the University of Washington and some group of online players finally found a potential solution for HIV and other diseases. After numerous and extensive experiments and studies, the group was able to find a possible solution for this killer disease.

A Chinese man had to undergo a surgery to remove an eel on his penis. Zhang Nan, 56, had an unusual spa treatment to get rid of his dead skin cells and look younger.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is considering setting a standard for the manufacture of baby slings. In the latest issue of Medical Journal of Australia, authors Roger Byard, professor of pathology at the University of Adelaide, and senior specialist forensic pathologist John Gilbert said an Adelaide infant may have died from suffocation while in a baby sling.

It is the dimpled appearance on the surface of the skin that is often described as "cottage cheese" or an "orange peel", and is most common among women, especially on the thighs and buttocks.

It is the dimpled appearance on the surface of the skin that is often described as "cottage cheese" or an "orange peel", and is most common among women, especially on the thighs and buttocks.

Sacha Rumaner, 30, died on a dentist’s chair because of allergic reaction to mouthwash. Rumaner was not subjected to anaesthetic while having a routine treatment when suddenly the young woman went into shock. The incident happened at Morley Street dental clinic located in Brighton, East Sussex. Sacha complained that she feels itchy on her back and leg, and that she’s feeling hot. After that, the poor English woman suddenly collapsed and slid onto the floor. Just in a couple of minutes, the life...

A recent interview with Brad Pitt reflects the main issues on why happy couples can usually end up with an annulment. The number of divorced couples continues to rise especially in countries where annulment is legal.

American twins Joshua and Jacob Spates, who were joined at the spine, are now recovering in the pediatric intensive care after a successful 13-hour surgery. Their 34-member surgical team at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital is celebrating this medical victory.

When someone who practices good hygiene still sends off an unpleasant scent, a genetic disorder should be blamed, a recent study says.

Australia announced a new passport system that includes indeterminate as a gender option. Aside from male and female, the country now allows people to choose the indeterminate option without having a need for surgery to prove sex change.

Once upon a time, doing it was allowed in airplanes. Then came a time when passengers were allowed to do so in certain sections of the plane or on selected flights. Then people started doing it in lavatories, but such act was later deemed a sin. Then a total ban on all flights and public transportation was enacted. Then a replacement was provided, offering to simulate the sensation without the risks. No I'm not talking about the mile-high club.

Laughter is like a contagious disease, more contagious compared to the different diseases that brings threat to our health. The difference is laughter is way too good. It has good effects to our body like boosting our immune system, increases our energy level and shields us from stress. The kind of medicine that is free and natural.

Breast cancer and cervical cancer are among the most common cancers all over the world. Though it continuous to spread in all parts of the globe, there were higher number of cases recorded to poorer countries.

The green-eyed monster strikes! Even in jealousy, there is a striking difference between men and women. Men would typically deal with questions about the sexual issues of an affair while women would ask about the emotional infidelity.

The increasing cases of kidney disease in Australia are very alarming. Forecasts have been made by Australian Institute of Health and Welfare that the need for dialysis or kidney transplant will soar by 84% by the year 2020. According to the said institution, 11 out if 100,000 people in Tasmania go through the process of transplantation of kidney and dialysis in 2009.

Employees who walk 10,000 steps a day and work out in the gym three times a week tend to be more productive, an Australian clinical trial has found.

Yoga is one of the best alternative treatments that can clear people’s mind, body, and soul. And because people encounter different types of stressors every day, yoga is becoming popular all over the world especially to women.

The Sarah Palin book, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, by Joe McGinniss is out. The book oozes with salacious allegations. McGinniss apparently moved next door to Palin to write a book about her. The book is packed with stories that could make a blockbuster movie. It exposes stories about cocaine, a one-night stand with a basketball hero and a love triangle, the atlanticewire.com reports.

A 30-year old Chinese farmer from Gonyi, central China, went on an axe rampage on Wednesday and killed six people.

Middle aged men who are looking after their health and are living healthy lives can have better sex lives too. A new analysis of an existing research claims that men can still have an amazing sex life even at their 40s if they know how to take care of their health and diet.

Environment and health authorities in New Mexico, USA recalled cantaloupes sold by local produce retailers on Tuesday after three people who consumed the fruit suspected to be contaminated with listeria died from listeriosis.

WHO's Regional Director for Europe, Zsuzsanna Jakab, warned that dangerous and drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis are spreading at an alarming rate in Europe. WHO is launching a new regional plan to find, diagnose and treat cases of the airborne infectious disease more effectively.

A New Jersey man who seemed to be dying of leukemia is the first patient to get an experimental cancer treatment that uses a defanged form of HIV. The result was a stunning success.