Watching stick-thin female frames on television can have an impact on women’s health, according to a new scientific paper. Aric Sigman claims that seeing women on screen who are underweight but perceived as “normal” can be harmful to girls and women. He said a biological mechanism which makes females become unhappy when they look at [...]

Dental hospitals are today urging people who notice lumps in their mouths for more than a fortnight to have them checked. Around 400 new cases of head and neck cancer are detected in Ireland every year, while three people will die from it every week. Mouth, head and neck cancer is the sixth most common [...]

One of the world’s leading scientists says he believes cancer can be cured within a decade. Doctor James Watson, who cracked the genetic code more than 50 years ago, says enough knowledge may already exist to stop the killer disease. The 82-year-old says it is now up to the scientific community to speed up testing [...]

Consuming white rice instead of brown people are losing out on a lot of nutrition. When white rice is produced it loses a lot of vitamins and microelements such as B vitamins, manganese, phosphorus and iron. Brown rice, on the other hand, still has the bran intact so it has more fiber and nutrients than [...]

Prosopagnosia is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact. Researchers from the University of Minnesota and Harvard University are studying prosopagnosia aka “face blindness”, the disorder of people who cannot recognize faces. They discovered that there are two types of the disorder: [...]

Adhering to a Mediterranean diet is not just good for health, it is also great for protecting skin. It is well documented that the Mediterranean diet has health benefits. In addition, it is considered to prevent malignant melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer. The Mediterranean diet has been found to be great for protection of skin from UV rays due [...]

Doctors who specialize in the treatment of cancer and other potentially terminal diseases face the most difficult task when they have to tell a patient that he or she has only a couple of months (years) to live. It is really hard for doctors to know that they are doing everything in their power to give extend [...]

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has decided that Avastin is not a cost-effective treatment for advanced bowel cancer, as was reported yesterday, August 24. It estimates it would cost the NHS about £135m (over $208m) a year to treat 6,500 people at £20,800 ($32,000) per person and the limited extension to life that Avastin provides [...]

A life sentence of stigma prevents heroin and cocaine addicts from recovering, according to think-tanks. The UK Drug Policy Comission (UKDPC) says that the Government must undertake the “extreme prejudice” against drug users because it prevents them from getting back to work and rejoining society. It should be shown more compassion to addicts with purpose [...]

On Sunday, August 15, free medical care was organized and given by the Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministers (MFM) in an effort to help the needy. In just a one day event, the MFM provided medical practitioners to provide diagnosis on eye screening, blood pressure, body mass index and others issues affecting their community. [...]