Family Health Articles

Taste receptors help us distinguish sweet from sour and savory from bitter, but they aren't just on the tongue. Taste buds were found to play a key role in male fertility. If yours aren't working properly, your sperm might be suffering.

Sticky beads that capture healthy sperm can serve as a new kind of contraceptive, or they can help doctors collect the most viable sperm for in vitro fertilization.

Infertility is on the rise and despite a great many advances in medical technology, there is still a great demand for donor sperm. Single mothers by choice and lesbian couples are two groups that may also want to use donor sperm to become parents.

Vaginal thrush infection is an infection of the mucous membranes that line the vagina with a fungus that belongs to the family of yeasts, called Candida albicans. Vaginal infections with Candida albicans are also commonly know as yeast infections.

Learn how to treat a yeast infection with both over the counter and all natural remedies.

Leukemia is the most common type of cancer diagnosed in children. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common form of disease, is caused by mutations that occur during fetal development. Treatment options now get better, and survival rates improve.

The thyroid gland is a large butterfly shaped gland located in the front of the neck, between the skin and muscular layers. The “wings” of the thyroid gland are actually lobes which wrap around the trachea and produce thyroid hormones.

Ulcerative gingivitis, commonly referred to as trench mouth, and sounding like an ominous World War I disease, is mistakenly thought of a sexually transmitted disease. It’s true that the bacteria can be transmitted by kissing or intimate oral contact.

Women use make-up to enhance their features, but sadly many do not realize the importance of knowing how to remove make-up properly.

Estimated to affect about 15 to 30 million individuals, male impotence is commonly noted in individuals above the age of 65 years. Although considered as a disorder of old age it can also affect men at any age after puberty.