HEALTH & WELLBEING

Despite the rising incidence of cancer in Northern Ireland, the number of people surviving the disease here is increasing significantly year on year.

Jamelle Agbuis Mar 01, 2012

Even if you are not so gullible, your brain still works a certain way, making associations that create vulnerability to being easily fooled, or fooling yourself.

Jamelle Agbuis Mar 01, 2012

More than 50 percent of women experience at least one urinary tract infection (UTI) in their lifetimes, and despite the drugs doled out by Big Pharma, as many as 50 percent of those women experience a recurrence within one year, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Jamelle Agbuis Mar 01, 2012

Mental health workers will improve their understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity through a new resource to be funded by the State Government and delivered by The University of Western Australia.

Jamelle Agbuis Mar 01, 2012

UCSF Study Shows Digital Cognitive Training Improves Brain Function and Behavior for People with Schizophrenia

Jamelle Agbuis Mar 01, 2012

The National Heart Foundation of Australia has urged those Australians who take statins to reduce their cholesterol to keep taking their medication until they can discuss any concerns with their doctor.

Jamelle Agbuis Mar 01, 2012

The Australian community could be saving a maximum of $4.2billion if all heart attack survivors began taking fish oil supplements, a new report by Deloitte Access Economics (commissioned by the Complementary Healthcare Council of Australia) claims.

Jamelle Agbuis Mar 01, 2012

Desk-confined employees would be able to ward off considerable health risks if they take a break every 20 minutes and flex some muscles.

Erik Pineda Feb 29, 2012

A new technique that could provide a prosthetic limb that moves and responds like an actual flesh and blood limb has been a major goal for researchers and physicians for years. Now a joint project by researchers from Sandia National Laboratories, the University of New Mexico and the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has found a way for amputees to gain better control over their prosthetics with help from their own nervous systems.

ranina sanglap Feb 29, 2012

Taking vitamin D while still young may be good for the body in the long run. Results from a study conducted by the University of Zurich have confirmed that sufficient amounts of vitamin D taken consistently are necessary to maintain bone health.

Jamelle Agbuis Feb 29, 2012

Several specific regions of our brains are activated in a two-part process when we are exposed to deceptive advertising, according to new research conducted by a North Carolina State University professor.

Jamelle Agbuis Feb 29, 2012

A new study jointly conducted by researchers at the University of California Berkeley (UCB) and the University of Toronto showed that those who have more were most likely to take advantage of their better status while those who have just enough seemed more content and willing to give way, and even share when necessary.

Erik Pineda Feb 29, 2012

Bats have been hosting flu virus for many years, according to a new research findings published on Monday by scientists working for the U.S.-based Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Erik Pineda Feb 29, 2012

Influenza, commonly known as flu, affects as many as one in five Americans each year, while more than 200,000 get hospitalized due to seasonal flu-related complications, yet many still do not get vaccinated, reports said.

Genalyn Corocoto Feb 29, 2012

Did you know that vaccinating your cat with the typical, recommended feline vaccination schedule may lead to your furry friend developing cancer?

Jamelle Agbuis Feb 28, 2012

What if it was possible to eliminate much of the world's otherwise very-slowly-biodegrading plastic waste using a natural Amazonian fungus?

Jamelle Agbuis Feb 28, 2012

Before, to be diagnosed with the big C seemed to be an implied death sentence. Patients even go through a stage of self-denial. Who can blame them? Conventional medicine paints a rather bleak future for cancer patients and the remedy it offers does nothing to improve their quality of life, nausea and falling hair not to mention.

Jamelle Agbuis Feb 27, 2012

The expression "he/she died of a broken heart" is often used to describe someone who has died after having been depressed for a long time. Usually that person drinks or drugs himself/herself to death after a desperate period of loss, bitter disappointment, or environmentally induced depression.

Jamelle Agbuis Feb 27, 2012

After thousands of years Western medicine is finally recognising the benefits of meditation to treat diseases including mental illness. Under the disguise of MBCT, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, meditation is being accepted as a way to treat various conditions in the field of mental illnesses.

Jamelle Agbuis Feb 27, 2012

Simultaneous targeting of two different molecules in cancer is an effective way to shrink tumors, block invasion, and stop metastasis, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have found - work that may improve the effectiveness of combination treatments that include drugs like Avastin.

Jamelle Agbuis Feb 27, 2012

Mitochondria, tiny structures within each cell that regulate metabolism and energy use, may be a promising new target for cancer therapy, according to a new study.

Jamelle Agbuis Feb 27, 2012

Reyna Robles was always the first one up and the last one to bed: she possessed more than enough steam to come home from her full-time job, prepare a meal for her husband and children, take her dogs for walk and help her kids with homework.

Jamelle Agbuis Feb 27, 2012

Jet lag dogs even the most frequent of flyers. Here's how to keep yourself well-rested and ready to take in the sights.

Jamelle Agbuis Feb 27, 2012

The treatment of ankylosing spondylitis typically involves the use of medications to reduce inflammation and/or suppress immunity to stop progression of the disease, physical therapy, and exercise. Physical therapy and exercise help improve posture, spine mobility, and lung capacity.

Women Fitness Feb 25, 2012

Here's another development in science that seems to have been taken from science fiction. Chemists at LMU Munich in collaboration with colleagues from Berkeley and Bordeaux have shown that it is possible to inhibit pain sensitive neurons using an agent that acts as a photosensitive switch.

ranina sanglap Feb 24, 2012

American scientists reported on Wednesday what they called an important step that could prevent sudden deaths due to ventricular arrhythmia or abnormal heartbeat that usually occur during the early morning hours.

Erik Pineda Feb 23, 2012

Recent studies have considered obesity as a modern epidemic, with many adverse effects on a person’s health, such that researchers continue to focus on issues relating to obesity particularly the role of exercise in maintaining a healthy body.

Genalyn Corocoto Feb 22, 2012

Parents who exercise a vaccine exemption for their children are often ridiculed for putting their own children and others at risk.

Jamelle Agbuis Feb 22, 2012

Scientists have developed nano-robots that can deliver deadly payloads to unhealthy cells.

ranina sanglap Feb 22, 2012