General Health

Japanese women never seem to have cellulite. This is a very amazing fact, since most of women think that cellulite is a big problem. What’s their secret, actually? Basically, cellulite is fat that is localized in one or more areas of the body. There is no diet that is going to magically get rid all the [...]

Barry Daly, M.D., professor of radiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, developing a new technology called Computed tomography (CT) autopsies system. CT is recently used as a tool for civilian medical examiners’ autopsies in the United States. It has the potential to replace conventional autopsy in determining the cause of [...]

Recently, the researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center in collaboration with researchers in Finland suggests that the presence or absence of two proteins may be important markers for long-term survival in some breast-cancer patients. A proteins called ErbB-4, is important for the growth and differentiation of several types of cells in the body. [...]

Marcel Just, neuroscientist from Carnegie Mellon University, and Stanford postdoctoral fellow–Sashank Varma–propose a theory that can accurately predict the change in brain activation that results from some types of brain damage or disease. They observed how the human brain organize itself to give rise to complex cognitive tasks such as reading, problem solving and spatial [...]

Do you have headache, dizziness, everything goes dark suddenly when standing up quickly? If the answer is yes, you may have your blood pressure checked up. A blood pressure reading appears as two numbers. The first and higher of the two is a measure of systolic pressure, or the pressure in the arteries when [...]

Depression is one of the most common emotional problems in the United States and around the world. We can say that, one is suffering from depression when he/she feels the feelings of sadness and despair intensely. These feeling begin to interfere with his enjoyment of our daily life, ability to work, study, eat and sleep. Depression [...]

Why is it so important to learn to relax? Well, When we relax our body and our mind, we automatically exclude the tension that tightens our muscles. This is how relaxation exercise reduces stress and anxiety, and produces a feeling of well-being. There are many way to relax, but one of the most simple and easily [...]

Brain is the organ of the body that performs the function of memory. We can still improve and expand our mind, it doesn’t matter how brainy we are or how much education we’ve had. Getting old doesn’t have to mean worsening memory, slower reactions and fuzzy thinking, because MIT researchers and colleagues are managed to find [...]

Genes play a significant role in heart function, and may partly determine who develops the most common form of heart failure. More than one-fourth of adults over age 45 have abnormalities in the way their heart fills with blood and are at significantly increased risk for premature death. Data from a 15-year period show that the [...]

Anthrax happens in humans and pigs, the potentially deadly disease which is caused by a toxin secreted by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis. When anthrax affects humans, it is usually due to an occupational exposure to infected animals or their products. As it is known, Anthrax infection can occur in three forms: cutaneous (skin), inhalation, and [...]