New software can digitally “cleanse” a colon, eliminating the muss and fuss of a standard colonoscopy.Colonoscopy can save lives by detecting colon cancer early, but there are a couple of very good reasons why so few people actually get screened namely, to get the test, you have to clean out your colon with a laxative [...]
A recent study from University of Washington in Seattle finds that getting some extra z’s sleep at each night could dampen the effect of genes that predispose you to weight gain.
The research team, looked at the weight and sleeping habits of 1,088 pairs of twins in the University of Washington Twin Registry and found that [...]
When young children gain too much weight , it’s easy to blame parents but the latest research suggests that certain obesity risk factors are out of Mom and Dad’s control.
The scientists at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University found that exposure to air pollution during pregnancy may be associated with a greater [...]
The first treatment to speed recovery from severe brain injuries caused by falls and car crashes: a cheap flu medicine whose side benefits were discovered by accident decades ago reported by researchers.
Severely injured patients who were given amantadine got better faster than a dummy medicine.More people in the flu drug group after four weeks,only they [...]
A variety of health problems at greater risk may occur for people who have trouble in sleeping,which includes diabetes, heart disease or depression.
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis found that participants waking up repeatedly during the night were more likely to show Alzheimer’s disease-related signs than sound sleepers. The researchers, led by neurologist [...]
Middle-aged men who smoked did worse on tests of cognitive ability over time, but women didn’t show the same declines in a new study.
Smoking contributes to a variety of health problems,including heart disease, emphysema and lung cancers. But now there’s growing evidence that using cigarettes can also affect the brain.Yes , its true.Smoking is [...]
Do you know that “Your daily dose of caffeine may tinker with more than just your energy levels”?
A new study of women ages 18 to 44 found that drinking coffee and other caffeinated beverages can alter levels of estrogen. But the impact varies by race. In white women, for example, coffee appears to lower estrogen, [...]
Don’t mix drinking and pregnancy, but when are babies most vulnerable to the effects of alcohol
The end of the first trimester appears to be the period when alcohol can wreak the most havoc on fetal development, causing physical deformities as well as behavioral and cognitive symptoms, according to research in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & [...]
Avastin, the blockbuster drug that just lost approval for treating breast cancer, now looks disappointing against ovarian cancer, too. Two studies found it did not improve survival for most of these patients and kept their disease from worsening for only a few months, with more side effects.
The Genentech drug won approval in Europe last week [...]
Your resting heart rate is an easy measure of your health and fitness, and a new study suggests that a rising heart rate over time may signal heart problems
There are several ways doctors predict your vulnerability to heart disease, among them: cholesterol levels, blood pressure, blood glucose levels and weight. Now a new study adds [...]
