Health Guide

A state Senate bill would create a department to handle disease outbreaks such as a flu pandemic and deal with bioterrorist threats. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced for a new state Department of Public Health in California.

The governor is…

There has been a longstanding belief among some new mothers that ‘placentophagia’, the practice of eating the placenta, can yield benefits. One supposed reason is that it can reduce the incidence of post-natal depression. It is also been claimed to…

Top British transplant surgeons have accused China of harvesting the organs of executed prisoners to sell for transplants. They condemned the practice as unacceptable and a breach of human rights.

Just last week a Chinese health official said publicly..

One in five Americans will develop skin cancer. A person’s risk of the disease doubles if he or she has had five or more sunburns. It came in the report of the Mayo Clinic Health Letter.

In the same study, the researchers found that just 60% of the…

Researchers have discovered a unique strain of mouse. It can re grow body parts without any scarring. They hope this could lead to new therapies for people. It is exciting that mammals may not have lost the ability to regenerate, the way amphibians or…

A drug is approved to treat osteoporosis in older women protects them against breast cancer. It is just as well as the standard breast cancer prevention drug tamoxifen. It has fewer serious side effects also. According to the study, Raloxifene with…

Red meat has been linked to heart disease, cancer and diabetes and the ever expanding American waistline. Experts say that you can have your steak and eat healthy, too, as long as you follow a few simple rules.

1) Choose the leanest cuts of meat. It is..

Do you curse and rebuke your dear one who consumes excessive alcohol? But, do you know certain genes are responsible for this habit or tendency? Yes, researchers have identified new genes that may contribute to excessive alcohol consumption. They are…

How do arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death occur? Researchers, to better understand such phenomenon, have developed unique chemical dyes. These dyes made it possible to see what the naked eye has never seen before! – action potentials, or voltage…

Here is a new treatment for people worried with graying of hair. The condition you are suffering from is now reversible! Thanks to researchers at the French company Loreal, and to its discovery of malfunctioning hair cells known as melanocytes.

But,..