A recent study, performed on mice, published in the July issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease found that grape seed polyphenols - a natural antioxidant - may help prevent the development or delay the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
With no improvement in the overall food security conditions expected before early 2012, about a million of children in drought-ridden Horn of Africa are at the risk of dying from malnourishment.
The main stage collapsed at Ottawa's Bluesfest Sunday during a Cheap Trick performance after a severe thunderstorm struck the area. It was not raining at the time.
Older people whose brain scans detected signs of brain amyloid but were otherwise healthy had a doubled risk of falling as people without brain amyloid, said a study at the Alzheimer's Association's annual International Conference in Paris Sunday. Brain amyloid foreshadows Alzheimier's disease.
Emergency rooms have been seeing a whole new kind of addict lately. Abusers of bath salts become agitated, violent, and psychotic and require, as one might expect, a whole new kind of care.
Bath salts, laced with a dangerous chemical, are becoming the latest drug threat according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
A new breed of bath salts is still legal in 22 US states, according to New York Times. They've only been banned recently in some of the 28 states that deem it illegal.
Binge drinking impairs the spatial working memory (SWM) of teenagers, especially teenage girls, a study found.
Six former patrons of the Aria, people who stayed there between December 2009 and April, have come down with the disease. All have recovered. It wasn't until all six cases were linked that officials felt the need to test the hotel's water.
A study by the Harvard School of Public Health's Center for Global Tobacco Control in Boston revealed that children exposed to second-hand smoke or passive smoking are at higher risk of developing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
The onset was a single monkey coming down with pneumonia at the California National Primate Research Center in Davis. In a matter of weeks, 19 monkeys were dead and three human beings were sick.
A potentially deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease has hit a resort in Las Vegas, already sickening a handful of guests.
Casey Anthony, the woman accused of murdering her two-year-old child with duct tape and chloroform, will be released tomorrow. Several demonstrators have taken this opportunity to express their hatred.
Las Vegas has become a catalyst for Legionnaire's Disease. Reuters has reported that at least 6 people have contracted the disease since 2009 and that there were no fatalities.
Specifically, there is a “genetic switch” that prompts people to eat unhealthy foods.
The United Nations has reported that measles outbreaks in Ethiopia and Kenya have killed dozens of children and sickened thousands of others. Measles are spread through contact with droplets from the nose, mouth, or throat of an infected person and symptoms include bloodshot eyes, cough, fever, light sensitivity, muscle pain, and rash.
A study conducted by New York researchers have found that grape seed polyphenols an antioxidant may help prevent the development or delay the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
A Las Vegas luxury resort and casino has been associated with six cases of the rare Legionnaires' disease, health officials informed on Friday.
The United Nations has reported that measles outbreaks in Ethiopia and Kenya have killed dozens of children and sickened thousands of others. UNICEF spokeswoman Marixie Mercado said today that at least 17,584 measles cases were reported by Ethiopian officials in the first half of the year. The outbreaks have results in 114 deaths.
Legionnaires' disease shook the luxurious Aria Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
Legionnaires' disease shook the luxurious Aria Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
Coffee and tea may save you from MRSA, a deadly staph infection, according to a recent study.
Bad driving is a disease and it can be cured, according to one doctor in the People's Republic of China.
A new study claimed that Google has become a part of everyday life. The study went on to say that the search engine is changing the way we think and what we choose to remember. The rise of Google and social media has not only molded our society into an insecurity-maintaining, cold-hearted machine but has also influenced our memory, which were were previously thought to be rather fixed.
Coffee and tea can save you from MRSA, a deadly staph infection.
Bad driving is a disease and it can be cured, according to one doctor in the People's Republic of China.
Bigger cutlery, bigger bites, less eating, a new study espouses.
In the same week social media network, Facebook, helps to diagnose a young boy with a rare autoimmune disease, actor John Travolta, 57, and his wife Kelly Preston, who both falsely claimed their son, Jett Travolta, had Kawasaki disease, a rare condition which causes inflammation of blood vessels, chose not to donate to charities supporting the illness.
Research has discovered what we knew all along- we actually NEED vacations.
A folk medicine has come under the scrutiny of a South Asian health department.
