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.
Arlene Paredes
Sep 16, 2011
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.
Karen Mae Cordon
Sep 15, 2011
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.
Sep 15, 2011
A 30-year old Chinese farmer from Gonyi, central China, went on an axe rampage on Wednesday and killed six people.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 15, 2011
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.
Karen Mae Cordon
Sep 15, 2011
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.
Windsor Genova
Sep 15, 2011
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.
Arlene Paredes
Sep 14, 2011
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.
ranina sanglap
Sep 14, 2011
More Australians are expected to be added to the number of patients suffering from chronic kidney ailments. According to an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) forecast released Wednesday, the proportion of diabetics who would require kidney transplants or dialysis would shoot up to 64 per cent in 2020 from 45 per cent in 2008.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 14, 2011
Japan has hit a new high record for having the most centenarians for 41 consecutive years.
Kay Aviles
Sep 14, 2011
As crowned Miss Universe 2011, Miss Angola, Leila Lopes hopes to push for several causes especially the fight against HIV, which has yet to be abated in Africa and is now raging in Asia.
Karen Mae Cordon
Sep 14, 2011
By disregarding posture and overusing gadgets, people are at greater risk of eye strain, tendinitis and carpal tunnel syndrome, to name a few conditions. The hands, shoulders, neck and back are most prone to muscle aches resulting from misuse and abuse of electronic devices at improper posture.
Arlene Paredes
Sep 14, 2011
A litter of glow-in-the-dark kittens must be taken seriously, as they may just shed light on a potential AIDS cure.
Arlene Paredes
Sep 14, 2011
A new study in the most recent Australian Health Review has revealed Australians are paying more out of their own pockets for medicines than citizens in many other countries.
Sharon Olalia
Sep 13, 2011
Steven Sonderbergh's star- studded film "Contagion" premise is about a lethal species-jumping virus that spread rapidly around the world. Director Steven Sonderbergh has said in interviews that he aimed for scientific and medical realism in the film going so far as to retain a panel of leading virologists and epidemiologists as consultants in the film. But just how realistic is the film? Could such a scenario really happen in real life?
ranina sanglap
Sep 13, 2011
Back in 2005, SpongeBob attracted controversy when a Christian evangelical group accused the popular cartoon of promoting a gay agenda. Now a new study says watching the bright yellow sponge could negatively affect schoolchildren's minds.
ranina sanglap
Sep 13, 2011
Athletes who compete in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London will face tougher anti-doping tests next year. For the first time, a new test to catch blood dopers and users of human growth hormone will be used, the BBC reports.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 13, 2011
A U.S. study blamed popular cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants for learning problems among 4-year-olds.
Vittorio Hernandez
Sep 13, 2011
The effectiveness of popular diet shakes for weight-management programs continues to divide opinion. Whilst celebrity testimonials and marketers claim the effectiveness of these products, health professionals contrive to challenge their efficacy in losing weight.
Jamelle Agbuis
Sep 13, 2011
The Cancer Council of New South Wales has renewed calls for tighter regulations on using promotional characters on food packaging. It claims that nearly 75 per cent of promotional characters on Australian food packets spruik products that are high in fat, salt, and sugar.
Jamelle Agbuis
Sep 13, 2011
Tobacco companies and industry groups from Europe and Kenya have issued fresh warning against a bill requiring plain packaging of cigarettes in Australia. The country targets to amend the trademarks law to support the bill pushing for plain packaging for cigarettes.
Windsor Genova
Sep 13, 2011
Cochlear announced a voluntary recall of its unimplanted Nucleus CI500 cochlear implant range but assures that in case of failure, the implant will not result to injuries.
Alena Flores
Sep 13, 2011
A Minnesota-based food company recalled about 185,000 pounds of ground turkey products on Sunday for testing positive to salmonella. Further investigations are due to be conducted on the plant in Arkansas
Gladys Denia
Sep 13, 2011
Studies have shown that children traced with pesticides on their urine can have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD. A study conducted in Canada shows that upon testing children with pesticides on their urine, 119 of them are with higher chances of having this hyperactivity disorder.
Karen Mae Cordon
Sep 13, 2011
A new study in Chicago claims that green glowing cats are capable to resist feline AIDS virus. The researchers developed feline genes that will make these cats green and glowing.
Karen Mae Cordon
Sep 13, 2011
Australian medical doctors are seeing a rise in sexually transmitted disease as more and more highly-paid workers take vacations in Asia.
Alena Flores
Sep 13, 2011
Asthma patients could possibly be treated with a drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, reports said.
Gladys Denia
Sep 12, 2011
The star of Spartacus, a New Zealand hit series, passed away on Sunday after 18 months of surviving from Non Hodgkin’s lymphoma. "On a beautiful sunny Sydney spring morning, surrounded by his family, in the arms of his loving wife, our beautiful young warrior Andy Whitfield lost his 18 month battle with lymphoma cancer," Vashti Whitfield, the actor’s wife, stated to the press.
Karen Mae Cordon
Sep 12, 2011
Scientists revealed on Sunday that they are working new device that uses sensors to detect sweat and breath to find buried earthquake victims buried under debris.
ranina sanglap
Sep 12, 2011
For years, it has been an accepted dogma that obesity led to type 2 diabetes by causing inflammation, which was perceived to change the way the body responds to the effects of insulin. Scientists theorized that chronic, low-grade tissue inflammation related to obesity contributed to possible insulin resistance. However, a new study suggests that this theory may need to be updated, the Endocrine Web reports.
Gladys Denia
Sep 10, 2011
