Heavy drinkers are forcing their colleagues to work longer and harder which is costing the Australian economy over $400 million each year.
In a new research, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, is has been found that about one third of workers have experienced negative effects from their co-workers’ drinking of alcohol.
About 59 of the [...]
While most of us thinks that health is an automated system and it will take care of its self, but what we fail to realize that our health is rather more like a machine.
The only difference is that we can tune it to our needs; which we most often don’t do. Maintaining a daily routine [...]
Studies have shown that birth control pills are effective whatever your weight is. Whether or not you are obese or thin, the same pill works equally.
According to Dr. Carolyn L WestHoff, from Columbia University Medical Center, the pill works by stopping and or preventing the woman’s ovaries from producing eggs.
Contrary to the study mentioned above, [...]
The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) can give us protection not only to STD’s that can cause cervical cancer but also to prevent from developing genital warts and cervical growths according to recent studies.
Over the years, an estimation of 500,000 cases of cervical cancer has been reported. Genital warts and cervical growths are two conditions that are [...]
The Food and Drug Administration usually allows blood to be stored for almost 42 days and most of the time the hospital would use the oldest ones to ensure that the first one to expire should be used first.
But the question lies on whether or not the old bloods have the same blood components as [...]
The two pills’ combination that is taken to cure the addiction of alcohol, heroin and smoking, is leading to weight loss at a faster rate than can be achieved through dieting and working out.
A study was held with two groups of overweight people. Both the groups had to diet and work out. The first group [...]
A research showed that the rate of death by home births were double of that of births of babies in hospitals. The mother-to-be certainly has the full right to decide whether she wants to have the delivery of her child. But, this right is subjected to be questioned by a journal of top medical.
Just because [...]
Obese individuals will try anything just to help them lose their weight. These individuals voluntarily took the experimental drug Contrave by Orexigen.
The drug’s action is to help individuals taking it to reduce their food cravings and is expected to lose weight at about 6kg in one year.
The obese volunteers said that when they took the [...]
In Washington Dc, the use of female condoms to fight against HIV that is now an epidemic is being pushed through since it ranks as one of the highest infection rate in the country
Female condoms are wider than that of male condoms.
With the effort to persuade females to use of female condoms, a group in [...]
Government has planned to set up a cancer grid connecting diagnostic facilities in some parts of the country.
The Cancer grid will connect the Tata Memorial Centre whichspecialises in cancer treatment with centres in Kolkata, Jorhat and Bhopal.
This will be very useful and helpful for the patients who are suffering from cancer .The grid is being [...]
