Dogs Can Detect Cancer
A new study showed that dogs can detect not only advanced stages of cancer but early ones as well. Scientists Tadeusz Jezierski and Michael McCulloch in California have conducted the research. They trained five household dogs to detect cancer from the breath of the cancer patients. They included...
Mick
Deadly bird flu confirmed in Turkey
Three Turkish teenagers have been killed by bird flu and two of them were confirmed to have had the deadly H5N1 strain. All victims were younger that the age of 16. The three deaths represent the first human deaths from bird flu outside South-East Asia. All of them lived in Turkey's eastern Van...
Jane232591
Infections may cause cancer in kids
Although cancer in children is rare, numbers of the diseased youngsters have increased over the past three decades. The leading cancers among children are leukemia and brain tumors. Recent studies have revealed that these cancers may be triggered by minor infections that affected bearing mothers or...
Women Often Uninformed About Breast Reconstruction
A new study finds that not all women with breast cancer fully understand their options regarding breast reconstruction. Breast cancer patients can have breast reconstruction at the same time as their mastectomy or soon after. However, only few women decide to undergo the procedure. Many of them...
Detox diets are a waste of time and money
Scientists and doctors point out that most of the so-called detox diets that are appearing on the market are just a good way for a detox industry to make money with no benefits to the consumers. The only thing these detox diets can do to a user is help them feel less guilty about the holidays’...
Lori2592
Pill linked to reduction in women's sexual desire
Besides suppressing ovulation, birth control pills have been found to reduce sexual desire in women. For a long time, scientists have been trying to find a link between mood swings and low libido with pill contraceptives and they have finally managed to do so. Many women who take birth control pills...
Lori2592
Club 'horse' drug to be outlawed
It seems as if there has come to saturation with drugs among club goers, so they decided to switch to horse tranquilizers. It appears that an anesthetic used on both humans and animals is being more and more abused in recent years. It’ name is Ketamine aka K, Ket, Special K, Vitamin K, Vit K,...
Mark
Bacterial Infection Blamed in 2 Deaths
Health officials from Ventura County report and warn about a fast-acting bacterial infection similar to meningitis that had killed a baby and a teenager around Christmas time. Meningococcemia, a type of blood poisoning, is an infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitides that lives in...
Miia2818
Protect your ears: limit iPod use
Only few earbuds users are aware of the possible hearing impairment from listening loud music for many hours. Bulky earmuff-type headphones appear to be safer but also less attractive and therefore less often used. The earbuds used by iPod listeners can boost the audio signal by as many as nine...
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Nicotine Vaccine to Help Smokers Quit
Smoking wipes 10 years off a person's life on an average but giving up at any age brings huge benefits. Quitting smoking was not easy but it might as well become so. Nabi Biopharmaceuticals has produced a nicotine vaccine called 'NicVax' to helps smokers quit the bad habit. The vaccine works by...