General Health

It is widely known that adipose tissue has the ability to rapidly expand or contract in accordance with nutritional constraints. Using a cell-sorting method known as flow cytometry, the researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine detected a broad spectrum of blood-forming, or hematopoietic, cells among the cultured cells at varying stages of [...]

Want to quit smoking? Well, this is not an easy decision, though. Once you decide to stop smoking means that you have a compromise with lifestyle, habits, and..of course a hard trial. The bottom line is : make the decision to stop smoking (better, don’t ever start) and find the way that works for you. Oh [...]

If you are a beginner to bodybuilding workout routine, the first step you must do is ensuring your body condition, whether you are healthy enough for some type of workout. You will need to find a program that suitable for your unique situation and goals. The foods to be consumed are also must be considered, [...]

Acute and chronic constipation together accounted for nearly half of all cases of acute abdominal pain in children treated at one hospital, a study found. The research was held by a University of Iowa researcher, to help showing that constipation frequently causes acute abdominal pain and that a physician should not just ask the parent if [...]

Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites. It is one of the most common infectious diseases and an enormous public health problem. No vaccine is currently available for malaria; but now, a research team led by Dr. Paul Wiseman of the Departments of Physics and Chemistry at McGill University has developed a radically [...]

Cardiovascular disease has many variable signs and symptoms, but different people may have different experience. A recent study shows that cardiovascular disease does not affect men and women in the same way, the risk factors and protective factors for heart diseases are likewise unequal. A study called “Voluntary Exercise Induces Sex-Specific Physiological Cardiac Remodeling” examining chronic [...]

Sauna means a room in which water is splashed on the hot rocks to produce steam. People are now very excited of having sauna home, since its medical benefits to our body are very good. What are they? Well, as we sweat more during sauna bath, it opens the pores on skin and helps body to [...]

Nowadays, plastic surgery becomes more and more popular. People wanted to look nice and attractive all the times. One of the most common kind of surgery is beauty surgery. Beauty is one of the big reason for people do plastic surgery. Some want to correct their ears, another nose, someone else tummy, legs, buttocks and etc. [...]

Atherosclerosis, diabetes, hypertension, and cancer occur more frequently with increasing age, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis explained. By making the skeletal muscles of mice use energy less efficiently, researchers report that they have delayed the animals’ deaths and their development of age-related diseases. Clay Semenkovich said, although it does not extend [...]

In the journal Advanced Materials, Yadong Wang, assistant professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, developed a treatment for recovering human nerve function. The technique would use a biodegradable polymer containing a chemical group that mimics the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, because he and the researchers thought that regeneration in the [...]