Healthy articles

Short abnormal pieces of DNA have been discovered in patients with late-stage colorectal and breast cancer. If these can also be found in early stage cancers, then an early diagnostic test could be established which can aid in early treatment.

On this Lupus Awareness Day we consider five insights from lupus research and five natural approaches to controlling this disease that affects up to 1.5 million women and men in the United States alone.

Common sense tells us that it's not a good idea ever to argue in front of infants. A growing body of scientific research tells us why.

Sometimes multi-tasking is a must. But if you want to think outside the box, you need to be able to focus. A research team at the University of Pennsylvania has found one way to train your brain to do one thing at time, in an innovative fashion.

When it comes to selling and leadership roles, extroverts were once believed to be the top candidate for the job. Current research suggests that those outgoing, social personality traits may have a downside when it comes to leadership positions.

With increasing general awareness about the ill-effects of smoking, many smokers have quit. While more than 50% of the smokers have given up on smoking, only 34% of mentally ill Americans have done so. Find what is preventing them from quitting smoking.

The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America makes every May Asthma Awareness Month. On this Asthma Awareness Day, let's take a look at 10 innovations in asthma treatment that help asthmatics breathe just a little easier.

Researchers have developed the MammaPrint test which can predict the risk of recurrence of breast cancer. This can greatly aid in decisions about whether further treatment is needed or not.

Oxycontin abuse is on the decline in the USA, although it is stubbornly persistent in Canada.

When Cruezfeldt-Jakob disease began showing up in Europe about 20 years ago, there was a lot of scare literature about the prion proteins that transmit it. But it turns out that there are bad prions and good prions.