Lead in children's candy
Certain types of children's candy contain lead but the allowed amount is being restricted by the FDA. The previous allowed amount was one-half a part per million of this highly toxic metal and the new recommended level will be one-tenth of a part per million. This decision has been made after it...
Jane232591
Bigger brain is better brain
A study funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Albert Einstein/Irving Zucker Chair in Neuroscience at McMaster University was done in order to examine the correlation between brain size and intelligence. The results came back positive...
Miia2818
Tamiflu, the bird-flu drug, fails to save two lives
Medical circles are getting worried as it seems that the bird flue virus has developed a resistance to the Tamiflu drug. Two Vietnamese patients were treated with the drug but unfortunately the drug didn’t show to be affective in their cases and they passed away. Health officials report that the...
Lori2592
French Doctors Successfully Separate Twins Joined At Spine
Fifteen-month-old twins Mohamed and Souleymane were diagnosed as Siamese twins before they were born. These two boys weighted only 1.7 pounds each were conjoined at the base of the spine and kept in the hospital until they gained enough strength to be operated. Their surgery took place on December...
Lori2592
One in three US adolescents physically unfit
More than one in three American adolescents are physically unfit, which represents one of the risk factors for heart disease. These statistics don’t show bright future for the young Americans. The 5,315 test subjects were asked to achieve 75 percent to 90 percent of their age-predicted maximum...
simone2593
Viagra Pill For Women To Be Developed
Most people don’t even know that women too can suffer from sexual dysfunctions. Women are not subject to the same kind of stigma that a man is subjected to due to dysfunction. Most women do not make an issue of their problems while consulting a doctor. Some sex therapists divide sexual...
simone2593
Fake Tamiflu from Asia seized by US customs agents
There are people who will always take advantage of stressful situations and try to make a profit on behalf of those who suffer. Unknown source from Asia, apparently China, is selling fake Tamiflu vaccine, which is said to protect from bird flue. The products are sold over the internet, the...
Mark
How to keep blood pressure in check
Blood pressure is an essential and normal part of the way the body works. Blood that is pumped around the body carries oxygen and essential nutrients. Because of the pumping action of the heart and the size and flexibility of the arteries that carry blood, the blood is under pressure. This is the...
UK go-ahead for first full face swap
Two weeks after the world’s first partial face transplant was carried out in France, surgeons in UK have been given a permit to go ahead with a full face transplant. The operation will replace an entire disfigured face with a dead person's face. This procedure as well as the one in France rose a...
Mick
It's a boy...if you've been trying for a while
A study about the sex prevalence performed in The Netherlands found that women who took longer to get pregnant were more likely to give birth to a boy. Researchers at Maastricht University looked at 5,283 women and results showed that around 58 % of women who had tried to conceive naturally for...
Mick