Body & Health Conditions Articles

Dr. Pedro Cavadas, who led teams performing Spain's first double hand transplant in 2006 and first face transplant in 2009, recently led a team of 35 professionals at La Fé Hospital in Valencia to achieve the world's first transplant of two legs.

Some bras claim to lift and separate your breasts. Now there is a new bra that declares itself to be a new breast cancer detection tool that can discern healthy breast tissue from unhealthy breast tissue, thus being able to detect breast cancer.

Multivitamins have long been suspected of being beneficial to our health and have been researched over many years. The benefits are especially helpful to men according to a study suggesting that a daily multivitamin could cut cancer risks by 10%.

Patients suffering from debilitating autoimmune disorders can go to any length to get some respite from their illness. A drug company is confident about this and is working on a novel method of treating these diseases using the eggs of the pig parasite.

Thirty three years after the introduction of sunscreens in the market and four years after getting a call from the Congress, the FDA has finally released its guidelines regarding the marketing of various sunscreen lotions.

Have you ever wondered why most smokers do not get lung cancer, and some non-smokers do? Or why some people get a cancer diagnosis and live for years and years, and others get a diagnosis of the same kind of cancer and die right away?

For many years it was believed that gum disease raised your risk for developing cardiovascular disease including heart attack and stroke. New research suggests that this claim is false.

Scientists have discovered that taking a daily dose of Aspirin can prevent cancer and it reduces the chance that cancer will spread to other organs by around 50 percent. Find out more about the three new studies that support Aspirin as a cancer deterrent.

In a new study, researchers have found that taller men may be at reduced risk of developing heart failure. It may be attributed to the increased distance between heart and certain blood vessels in them, which may reduce the level of stress on the heart.

Urinary incontinence resulting from detrusor over activity in patients, due to any spinal cord injury or Multiple Sclerosis (MS), can now be treated with Botox