Health & Fitness
- Cancer Risk Depends On Blood Group
[13 Mar, 2009] comments (0)
Less people of the 1st blood group suffer from pancreatic cancer, while the ones of the 3rd blood group have a higher risk of tumor development. ...
- Chinese Woman Has Been Howling with Pain For 26 Years
[13 Mar, 2009] comments (0)
A 42-years-old Chinese woman shocks people around her with her howl for 26 years. She first began howling when she noticed that it relieves her pains in the back, but she had soon lost control over it. ...
- A 7-years-old Girl Was Removed Six Organs Affected By Cancer
[13 Mar, 2009] comments (0)
A 7-years-old girl from New York is getting well now after having undergone a complicated surgical operation last month. In order to remove a tumor of a tennis ball's size the surgeons had to cut through 6 organs. ...
- Baby With Two Penises Underwent Surgery in Russian Clinic
[12 Mar, 2009] comments (0)
In Russia doctors witnessed the birth of a boy with two penises. The name of the child is Artyom G. It was reported that the boy was born 2 weeks ago after his mother has had a normal pregnancy without any complications. ...
- Children of Old Fathers Are Less Smart
[10 Mar, 2009] comments (0)
Scientists from the Neurological Institute from Queensland in Brisbane (Australia) have come to the conclusion that in childhood the intellectual abilities of old fathers' children are surely not the best. ...
- Doctors Found the Cause of Cancer Metastases
[10 Mar, 2009] comments (0)
Researchers have discovered that the key role in the spread of cancer metastasis belongs to the LOX (lipooxigenase) enzyme. ...
- Negative Thoughts About Ageing Bring About Health Problems In Older Age
[08 Mar, 2009] comments (0)
Young people, who consider that old age is a hard and complicated period of time in a person's life, can really suffer from infarctions and heart attacks in an older age. ...
- Plaster For Libido Improvement Proved to Be Harmful
[08 Mar, 2009] comments (0)
The medicinal plaster based on testosterone, elaborated for increasing women's sexual activeness, can result in being less efficient and even dangerous in a long-term use. ...
- Regular Physical Exercises Improve Memory
[07 Mar, 2009] comments (0)
Scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Pittsburgh have determined that old people can fight for their future, can stimulate the growth of brain's structures and, in consequence, can improve certain types of memory, with the help of the simplest of the methods. ...
- Abuse in Childhood Leaves Suicide Marks on Victims' Genes
[02 Mar, 2009] comments (0)
Scientists found that child abuse can leave suicide marks on victims' genes. ...
- Medicine Against Fears And Phobias Discovered
[27 Feb, 2009] comments (0)
The medicine, traditionally used for treating patients with a weak heart, had showed a surprising result: it helped people forget about their phobias and get over posttraumatic stress. ...
- People Choose By Themselves What to Memorize Or Not
[27 Feb, 2009] comments (0)
People choose what information to keep in their short-time memory. Recently, by using Functional Magnetic Resonance Visualization (fMRI), researchers were finally able to see what human beings keep in their memories ...
- Anger Can Cause Sudden Death, Scientists Say
[25 Feb, 2009] comments (0)
Researchers from Yale School of Medicine carried out a study that found a link between changes caused by anger or other powerful emotions and potential arrhythmias and sudden cardiac arrests that each year lead to 400,000 deaths. ...
- Living More Than 100 Years Predisposes To Depression
[24 Feb, 2009] comments (0)
Many scientists nowadays work upon the creation of the elixir of youth, based on the studying of genes of a long life. ...
- Migraine As Legacy
[24 Feb, 2009] comments (0)
There's no doubt that migraine is a partially hereditary disease. According to statistics, in 44 percent of patients one of the parents had previously suffered from this disease, and in 69 percent of them – both parents. ...