MEDICINE

The consumption of non-alcoholic weissbier, or wheat beer, has a positive effect on athletes' health, according to a research study that gathered during the world's largest study of marathons, Be-MaGIC (beer, marathons, genetics, inflammation and the cardiovascular system).

Sophisticated surgery can stitch together bones, muscles, nerves and skin from a suitable donor on the patient's face. Quite a few full face transplant surgeries have taken place recently, offering a second life to many people who lose their facial identity in macabre accidents, fires and animal attacks.

Connecticut chimpanzee attack victim Charla Nash got a full face and hand transplant late last month in a 20-hour surgery. The prerequisites of a full face transplant surgery are the availability of a suitable donor with blood and tissues matching the patient’s and the physical and psychological health of the patient.

Eight people injured in the nearly mile-wide tornado that ripped across Joplin, Missouri have contracted a rare fungal infection, and three have died, officials said Friday.

A Connecticut woman whose face was attacked by a chimpanzee has received surgery for a full face transplant. The surgery, which took place in May, lasted 20 hours and took place at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

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Practice Safe Policy launched condoms featuring the image of embattled Congressman

Compacts are the missing link between women carrying condoms or not

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for global action to end the Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) disease by 2020, in a UN summit on Aids in New York.

Everyone is tired of dieting without getting the results. Here are some top diets that have always worked for both men and women.

According to the Australian parenting website, 'Raising Children Network', health problems associated with childhood obesity are so severe, that there are concerns the current generation of parents in Australia will outlive their children!

For every pair of glasses purchased, someone in a developing country will receive vision care

A recent study found that the DASH diet may help teenage girls to gain less weight. Here are some tips for summer travel on the DASH diet.

The high-fiber, relatively high caloric diet is primarily concerned with reducing hypertension

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: SunOpta, EnerNOC, Identive Group, Ness Technologies, BioSante Pharmaceuticals, and Vical. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Amedisys, United Therapeutics, Yongye International, Star Scientific, and Corinthian Colleges.

A group of major western pharmaceutical companies announced that they will significantly reduce the prices they charge for vaccines in the developing world.

Four people in the United States are suspected of having been exposed to an E. Coli outbreak in Germany after returning from travels to Hamburg, U.S. health officials said.

Bean sprouts grown in Germany have been identified as the most likely source of the E. coli outbreak which has mostly been restricted to northern Germany, state authorities said.

Around 1 in 8 women in United States (12 percent) develop aggressive breast cancer over the course of their lifetime. About 40,000 women in the U.S. died in 2010 from breast cancer.

More violent behavior among young people are likely from a head injury sustained during their lifetime, according to an eight-year study from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

The number of cases related to an outbreak of infections from a deadly strain of E. Coli that has killed 17 people in Germany has jumped by 199 Since May 31, the World Health Organization reported on Friday.