Healthy articles

Heart disease kills more people worldwide than anything else. This article will discuss risk factors and facts about the heart disease and the lifestyle changes that significantly reduce the chances of getting heart disease

Supplemental enzymes do not have a lot of value in treating insulin resistance, the underlying cause of type 2 diabetes. They can be extremely useful, however, in treating diabetic complications such as peripheral artery disease.

I look a bit like a boxer at night now, but at least I'll get to keep my teeth.

Biologically active vitamin B12 isn't found in any products of non-animal origin, unless they have been fortified. And yes, you do need it. What else should all vegetarians and vegans know about vitamin B12?

I was diagnosed with pneumonia and pleurisy in February. It took months, and a pulmonary embolism scare, to get over. Two lots of hefty antibiotics later I am "well" again, but getting used to life with new lungs.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could enjoy all the comforts of home while you were in the hospital? In the United States, the pendulum is swinging back to home care, where the doctors and nurses come to you, as a vastly superior alternative to hospital care.

A new Ohio bill may, as Sarah Palin put it, prevent women from "snuffing out the life of their baby just because the child has an extra chromosome". Isn't this a rather simplistic way of viewing a complex topic?

It's easy to forget that bacteria and viruses need food, too, and when they infect us, we are it. Depriving bacterial and viral pathogens of iron, German scientists have discovered, is one of the ways the body beats infections.

Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder which is characterized by a lack of normal red blood cells. It presents in early childhood and the patient is usually left with a lifelong struggle for receiving blood transfusions.

In the United States, 70 percent of all emergency calls are made on cell phones. Ambulance, police, and fire department dispatchers, however, receive GPS data as seldom as 5 percent of the time.