In the United States, stroke ranks as the fifth most common cause of death. For adults, it is also a leading cause of impairment.
Anyone at any age can have a stroke. Strokes are particularly dangerous for women. According to...
Lee Rawlinson, a 51-year-old marathon runner from Essex, UK, was recently given a devastating diagnosis—terminal pancreatic cancer.
Doctors informed him that the cancer had spread to his liver, making it inoperable and leaving him with just a few months to...
USA has been facing a junk food crisis for as long as I can remember. Obesity has been a pertinent issue faced by the States.
Soda amounts to more than 25 percent of drinks consumed in the States. That is...
Nobody likes blackheads on nose and face. Blackheads are clogged pores which are the result of excess oil, produced by the sebaceous glands (oil glands).
Excess oil is usually produced due to hormonal changes, pregnancy, menstruation, eating lot of fried...
Experts have discussed what to do if you experience “eye floaters.”
Since our eyes are responsible for up to 80% of all impressions, they are regarded as the most vital organ of sense.
Most of the information we take in from...
In recent decades, scientists have realized that heart attack symptoms can be quite different for women than for men.
The journal Circulation published the findings of a multicenter study of 515 women who’d experienced a heart attack.
The most frequently reported...
Clogged arteries are a dangerous business. They can cause many health issues, the most dangerous of those being high blood pressure and heart attack.
But how do you figure out that your arteries might be clogged before things get bad...
If you’re anything like me, you’ll regularly check your body over for lumps, bumps, bruises and all else that’s out of place.
Call me paranoid or overcautious, but I like to know what’s going on with my body, and I...
Have you ever gone to sleep at night and dreamt that you were falling? Then suddenly, your body jerks, and you are startled awake.
An experience like this can be somewhat unsettling, but if it’s happened to you, you’re not...
Cryopreservation of stem cells may sound like science fiction, but I assure you, it is not. According to scientists, baby teeth have stem cells that help regenerate various parts of the body, so one day, these tiny teeth could...