HEALTH & WELLBEING

It's 27 days of verbal wanking for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the city celebrates May as the National Masturbation Month.

While girls her age are playing with their dolls at 14, a virgin teen was being forced by her jailed mother to get pregnant through artificial insemination . Desperate to have another child, a London-based American woman had made her adopted daughter get pregnant for her wish for another child to come true. The teen victim, identified only as “A” in a ruling by London court, had obliged to her mother’s request in hopes “to be loved more,” and she began to try to “please” her mom when she was f...

A federal judge ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make Plan B One-Step emergency contraceptive available for girls as young as 15 years old to be purchased without any prescription.

The famous cosmetic brand manufacturer Johnson & Johnson loses its license in India due to an ordered case by the Food and Drug Administration after 15 batches of baby powder products were found sterilized by an irritant and cancer-causing component.

To the many traditional cultures around the world that have long utilized the spice in cooking and medicine, turmeric's amazing anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-cancer benefits are no secret.

Researchers from Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) have presented new results about the role of testosterone in schizophrenia at the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research being held in Orlando, Florida.

Both doctors and parents are reluctant about raising the issue of childhood obesity, according to a new study.

"Eat your veggies" has been an admonition of parents through the ages, but newly published brain research from the University of Georgia provides one of the best reasons why.

Springtime is here, singing loud and clear, with bird's song and a green brushstroke awakening yards and trees to a new rhythm. As beauty colors in the landscape, wild varieties of plants, herbs, and mushrooms begin to appear.

According to live tweets and images sent from ophthalmologist Dr. Kris Held, nearly all doctors had walked out in protest and disgust of Obamacare implementation talks at a prominent national health care meeting.

Assisted death should be available to people with incurable and terminal illness who persistently request it. This is a key recommendation of a report from leading academics released today.

New research recently presented at a joint meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Experimental Biology confirms a little-known benefit of eating mushrooms - higher vitamin D levels.

Every supporter of Obamacare, from the president on down, has spent hours upon hours and expended exhaustive amounts of energy telling Americans what a wonderful law it is and how fortunate we are to finally have the federal government running (sorry - "managing") our healthcare system.

The children of migrants to Australia are more trusting than those whose parents settled in America, University of Melbourne research has found.

The recommendation over the weekend by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee to the federal government of Australia for inclusion of RU 486 or mifepristone in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme which is subsidised by taxpayers is creating controversy.

While bird flu is spreading wider and wider in China, it has also affected US-based Yum Brands Inc.'s results as its same store sales in the world's second economy slumped approximately 20 percent in the first quarter ended March 23. However, still the fast-food giant appears to have got off problems lightly as it underlined that the first quarter profit dropped less than initially expected.

Lack of empathy may lead to ineffective care, disregarded weight-loss counseling, and patient dissatisfaction

New Zealand outdoor workers are generally poorly protected from solar UV radiation, with only around one-third wearing sunscreen or a suitably protective hat, according to a University of Otago study published in the latest issue of the international Journal of Occupational Health.

People who live in urban areas with more green space tend to report greater well-being than city dwellers who don't have parks, gardens, or other green space nearby, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Instead of puffing weed as many recreation users of marijuana do, people who need the substance which was once banned would get quicker relief if they take marijuana pills instead.

A four-year-old pre-school girl in Britain is undergoing psychiatric therapy for compulsive behaviour because of her addiction to iPad games.

Are dolls with wafer-thin and unrealistic body proportions to be blamed for the wrong body image that young girls are suffering from and willing to literally die for?

Sixty-year-old cancer patient Christian Nayet was being driven to hospital for a series of scheduled laboratory tests. But when Jean-Francois Pina, his assigned ambulance driver for that night complained of feeling pins and needles in his fingers after an hour on the road, he knew a reversal of roles had to be done, and quickly, to save the man's life.

About one-third of men fake orgasms and the reason why they act is out of love, kindness and sexual insecurity, said an American urologist who just released a book on male sexual health.

U.S. scientists have successfully grown in a laboratory for the first time a whole functioning kidney by removing kidney cells from a donor rat kidney and injecting the mixture of rate kidney and blood-vessel cells into a tough collagen scaffold which grew the entire body organ in culture.

Yoga Asanas to Control Mindless Munching Why do many of us simply tend to eat and eat and eat. The answer to this uncontrolled munching lies in the fact that most of us are eating while distracted -- when watching TV, talking with family or friends, or eating in the car. Another external factor influencing how much we eat is serving size: If a larger serving is in front of us, we tend to eat more no matter what. Convenience and visibility of a food is another factor -- if it's easy to reach ...

Once you have made the major purchases, you can start to attend to your baby's more personal needs and do some advance planning.Before you rush out to buy lots of baby clothes, a roomful of toys, and several packs of diapers, ask friends and family if they have any baby clothes or toys they can pass on to you, and which diapers they recommend. Now is also the time to think about how you want to feed your baby.Baby Crib You will need a solid crib. Almost every crib today is adjustable to two l...

Grey hair is actually hair that has no pigment and is the result of the melanocytes - the cells that produce pigment - becoming damaged or dyeing. Presence of grey hair is a moment of defining getting older. Earlier a grey strand would get visible in late 30s or early 40s.

A new study suggests that memories rehearsed, during either sleep or waking, can have an impact on memory consolidation and on what is remembered later.