Body & Health Conditions Articles

Anemia is the single most common nutritional disorder in the world. A new study finds that iron deficiency anemia increases the risk of stroke. Time to get your iron levels checked?

For many years the expectation was that one in nine women in the UK and the USA would be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. Now the British charity Cancer Research has announced that the rate of breast cancer is on the rise in Britain.

Penile cancer is on the rise, according to a British study. Would you recognize its symptoms — and would you go to the doctor, or be too embarrassed?

You may not know that May is International MS Awareness Month. You should however know that a study published in 1996 was the first to demonstrate the benefits of exercise for people with MS. Since then, several additional studies have confirmed the same.

Researchers are now recommending that all ‘baby boomers’ be screened for Hepatitis C, as it has now surpassed HIV as a threat to the health of Americans. According to the CDC and new government data uncovered by research, Hepatitis C is on the rise.

Hundreds of articles on the Internet report that marijuana can beat brain cancer. But are the reports honest or just hype?

Women who had type 1, insulin-dependent diabetes were once advised not even to try to have babies.

One in eight men and one in four men over the age of 70 has degenerative arthritis in their hands. Caused by breakdown of cartilage and painful bony growths around joints, degenerative arthritis is the most common joint disorder.

UK scientists have announced discovery of a "rogue gene" that is responsible for the metastasis of cancerous tumors from one part of the body to another. The right drug, could stop the action of the gene and the spread of cancer.

During the first week of 2011 dozens of websites warned us all that the United States FDA was about to ban the use of intravenous Vitamin C.