Health Guide

Do you know, up to 7.5 percent of school-aged children are generally affected with Attention-Deficit Disorder (ADD)? And to add to the crisis, the parents of 7 percent of children 6-11 years of age are being told by a doctor of their child having the.

It was in 2006, the United States was struck hard by hunger! An overall of 35.52 million people — including 12.63 million children — went hungry that year. But, it was eventually checked at this point, but that was not enough — more needs to be…

It seems the time is ripe for revamping immunization program in Philippines; otherwise, measles would go on killing up to 6,000 children, annually. This claim by the World Health Organization pulls out a serious issue.

In the year bygone,…

The female condom was never widely accepted by women in the developed as well as in the developing countries. About 12 million female condoms are supplied each year to the poor countries compared with about 6 billion male condoms. Couples complained…

Bone marrow transplants, one of the most successful means of treating cancer has a rather alarming side effect too. At least half of more than 6000 Americans who received the treatment were found to be suffering from ‘graft-versus-host’ disease or…

It’s again the turn of thousands of turkeys, ducks and geese to fall victim to bird flu worriment. It’s all happening at a Redgrave Park Farm near Diss. After the confirmation of avian flu in turkeys, about 6,500 birds are already being slaughtered…

A former Prime Minister of India is said to have lived for a hundred years by drinking his own urine to keep himself healthy. Scientists at Cornell University and the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in a recent study found that human…

Infant mortality rate is an area of high concern to many folks. Even though the infant mortality rate is improving in the US, the country still ranks at the bottom of the list. I think this is an unacceptable fact given that the US is one of the…

She was nervous and pregnant after being assaulted by her uncle, a drug addict; she died because of excessive bleeding due to development fetus outside the uterus, are the some examples of women who lost their live because of not getting proper…

A new woe has been added to the already known problems of eating fat-rich diet – disrupting the body’s 24-hour internal clock. In a study published in the November 7 issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, scientists at the Northwestern University and…