HEALTH & WELLBEING

An Australian woman has sued a deli owner for serving bottled water containing semen. The sperm belonged to the deli owner whose DNA matched the sample taken from the bottled water based on test results. According to the documents filed before the court, deli owner Dahn Le had intentionally placed his semen in the bottled water. He knew the water was contaminated with sperm and sold it to the public anyway.

China has punished some 20,000 government officials almost a year after it implemented its anti-graft campaign drive, according to a statement from the Central Commission for Discipline and Inspection of the CPC, Communist Party of China's anti-graft watchdog.

You may have known that step aerobics can burn calories and is a good exercise for the heart, but did you know that research specifically has found step aerobics can step up your good cholesterol levels. A study published in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness found step aerobic exercise significantly raised the HDL- cholesterol levels of the study participants. This small, eight-week study followed 45 sedentary female Turkish college students. Fifteen of the women participated i...

Sagging skin is caused by losing too much weight too quickly. Slow, gradual weight loss does not result in excess flab, but rather, gives your skin and other body parts a chance to respond to all the changes that weight loss brings. Eat a healthy, balanced diet that includes all the same vitamins and minerals that keep skin healthy, but most of all: Slow down!

Fruits and vegetables are at their nutritional best in their raw state but, the idea of maintaining a constant diet of uncooked food would be less than appealing. There are many people who are happy to follow a raw food diet, often claiming that it makes them feel more energetic and ‘alive’. They believe that cooking and processing not only damage the nutritional quality of food, but also reduce its health-giving properties. It is true that the nutritional content of fruit and vegetables is red...

"Women can work at a higher percentage of their maximum heart rate than the men and a higher percentage of their maximum oxygen consumption." This information has been published in "Sex-specific Responses to Interval Training" a study conducted by Drs. Matt Laurent and Matt Kutz, Human Movement.

A fitness injury can be painful, inconvenient, and ruin your exercise routine. Thankfully, though, there are ways to keep your body in top condition at every workout. In addition to practicing equipment safety, and proper form, you can significantly cut your risk of injury by regularly stretching your muscles.

Before you go on to read - decide that curly hair is not a curse. Curls are sexy and romantic, and men love them. They are bouncy, voluminous and can be pulled into any hairstyle imaginable. Once you have your curls looking their best, you'll be amazed at all the compliments you'll get. They denote fun, creativity and openness.

New Zealand parents want to remove Wi-Fi from classrooms at Te Horo School after their son died from brain cancer. Ethan Wyman died 11 months after doctors diagnosed two brain tumours.

Scientists from the U.S. and Australia have discovered a way to reverse the ageing process. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and University of New South Wales said they have tested the procedure on mice and it proved to be successful. They are now working to test the method on humans.

HIV-positive individuals face more than side effects of antiretroviral drugs and slow progress of the disease, they are actually facing emptiness with constant seeking for love and affection. Eight endless tortures of what HIV brought to its living victims.

The increasing rate of New Zealander obese children has grown to 10,000 more based on the findings of an Auckland University research.

During her interview with Barbara Walters for her list of 10 Most Fascinating People of 2013, The Hunger Games star discussed body image and her fear for its effects on the younger generation.

A new bird flu H10N8 virus strain has been found in China, and it has killed one woman in the country.

A recent experiment conducted by a group of school girls claims to discover how WiFi signals can hurt anyone’s health; that it can even kill plants.

Here’s a more interesting reason why any family should get a dog, particularly a dirty one for the household.

It happened when the mother was being rushed to a hospital in Brandon on the Manitoba highway.

The tobacco packaging has been introduced in New Zealand, but it will not be passed as a law until Australia has settled the legal action. New Zealand's Associate Helath Minister Tariana Turia had introduced to Parliament the bill on Dec 17, known as the Smoke-Free Environments Amendment Bill.

A Chinese man suffered an industrial accident in Hunan Province while operating on a machine at work in November and left his right hand severed. To keep his hand alive, he had doctors in China attach his hand to his ankle while he waited for a month before undergoing reattachment surgery.

Not only does eating junk food leads to unwanted obesity, it also affects one's memory, according to researchers from the University of NSW.

Australian authorities have warned the New Zealand Ministry of Health that bald patients of a hair treatment clinic in Sydney may have been exposed to HIV and other infectious diseases because of poor infection control practices. New Zealanders who sought cosmetic hair treatment and replacement in the Sydney clinic now bore the risk of a blood-borne infection.

Spanish researchers and UK scientists are currently preparing for the clinical trials of a possible vaccine and cure against AIDS-causing HIV.

A new study revealed that obesity continues to be a health issue in New Zealand with 30 per cent of adults classified as obese. New Zealand is gradually becoming fatter with 3 adults out of 10 turning out to be obese. Despite the release of the new obesity data by a leading diabetes researcher, New Zealand Health Minister Tony Ryall said he will reject measures of a "nanny state." Mr Ryall said providing information and support to obese adults are not enough.

Otis Kryzanauskas, a 26-year-old man, has decided to pursue a profession which is primarily a female job throughout the world.

Doctors in Canada are trying to find out the most appropriate way of removing the life support of a patient when the decision is made to do so.

Alessandra Ambrosio had undergone cosmetic surgery before, and she swears she will never do it again.

An 82 year-old Colombian woman got shocking news when she visited a hospital in Bogota after suffering stomach pains. It is reported that the woman is experiencing pains due to a rare condition called "stone baby". According to the reports, the woman has been carrying a 40 year-old fetus inside her old body.

Australian researchers grew ‘Self-organising’ Mini-kidney for future treatment of renal diseases

If men had been enjoying Viagra and other male erection enhancement drugs for almost 20 years, flibanserin, the equivalent of the sex enhancement drug for women, has suffered from another impasse with the regulator, the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration (FDA).