Healthy 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?

Every year in the United States alone, over 400,000 people die of tobacco-related diseases. Tens of millions die in other countries. E-cigarettes may offer a way for some people to stop smoking--so isn't that a good thing?

Heroin is still the single most popular drug worldwide. How can addicts set themselves up for a successful recovery?

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.

Far more common than HIV, hepatitis C infects 4,000,000 people in the United States alone. Worldwide, over 170,000,000 people are infected with HCV, and over a million people die of the disease every year.

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

The traps play a vital role in shoulder stability and mobility. They're al too often neglected, though, and when people do train they tend to work on the upper traps alone. Big upper traps and weak mid and lower traps pull your shoulders out of shape.