Healthy articles

In January 2014 a chemical spill left over 250,000 West Virginians without water for almost a week--and the declaration that the water supply was safe again was based on guesswork rather than science. Here is what you need to know to be prepared.

A Dutch woman became the first ever recipient of an acrylic skull, custom-made with the help of a 3D printer. The revolutionary surgery saved the woman's life and liberated her of the debilitating symptoms she was suffering.

Most adults have multiple tens of moles on their bodies. What do normal moles look like, what should you watch out for, and when is it time to see your doctor?

Injuries are part of life, whether you train or not, whatever you do. Minor ones can get worse, acute ones can become chronic, if you deal with them badly. Check out these simple rules to hepl get yourself fixed up quicker!

You may think humans are better able to relate to other humans than computers are, but that doesn't stop them from being able to detect fake pain much more accurately than people, a new study reveals. Why?

Recent research may have uncovere the reason Alzheimer's and other brain diseases seem both to be caused by and to cause serious sleep disturbances and loss of sense of time.

People who are watching their calories may be happy that they eat only those food items which are labeled as sugar free. But often they are completely unaware of the fact that the food which they think as safe for their health is loaded with aspartame.

Marijuana is a naturally occuring herb. But like many others, it is considered as an illegal drug because of its potential for abuse and unavoidable negative effects on the body. In this article, we will look deeper into how this herb affcets our body.

There have always been advocates of natural medicine for cancer, but the results have not always been what is desired. A new method of encapsulating one natural supplement as a nanoparticle makes it far more effective against cancer.

Could working out - and specifically building muscle - lengthen your life span? A new study indicates that it could, and that muscle mass may be a better indicator of overall health than BMI.