If in the past a tanned skin meant a healthy body, nowadays it is associated with the side effects of the ultraviolet rays: a higher risk of skin cancer, premature aging, wall-eye etc.. But it’s summer time, the sun shines bright and it’s impossible not to have a sun-bath, at the pool or at the […]
According to statistics, one in four adults sleep less than five hours a day and women are more likely than men are to develop a cardiovascular disease if they sleep less than eight hours a night. According to a study made by the British researchers from Warwick Medical School and University College London, not getting […]
On Wednesday, the volcano in southern Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull glacier has sent an enormous cloud of microscopic basalt ash particles across northern Europe, shutting down the airspace across the continent. Icelandic geologist Magnus Gudmundsson said: “There doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. The activity has been quite vigorous overnight, causing the eruption column to […]
Cloning is the creation of an organism that is an exact genetic copy of another, meaning that every single bit of DNA is the same between the two. Human cloning is the artificial process of making a genetic twin of a person. Human cloning has already become illegal or restricted in a variety of degrees […]
It’s spring time, the trees bud and the ragweed blooms and the human body reacts differently to all the changes Mother Nature decides to make. Immune cells release histamines, the chemicals responsible for most of your allergy symptoms. These in turn kick-start inflammation that’s intended to keep the allergens from travelling into the body. The […]
Scurvy is in fact the vitamin C deficiency, one of the most serious diseases affecting teenagers, children and adults alike nowadays. Also known as Barlow’s disease, Scurvy can prove to be fatal if an individual does not get proper treatment.
It is caused by a dietary lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid), a nutrient found in […]
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the world so scientists have been working extremely hard to make use of stem cells therapies to treat patients with heart problems. In fact, they are closer than ever before to achieve this goal, due to two types of stem cells.
Some scientists consider the mesenchymal […]
It is said that home remedies are universal. Some say that our grand-grandparents shared the same home remedies, no matter the culture they belonged to. But this may not be true. It’s not about culture, but about what nature has to offer. The continents are different so nature is different too. So let’s see those […]
Men and women alike have weight issues at some point in their life. Whether you’re young or aged, losing weight or maintaining a healthy diet is always difficult. But it’s not so difficult if you eat in accordance with your own temperament.
For instance, a sanguine person is rather quiet, can easily cope with all kinds […]
50% of the world’s population have the helicobacter pylori living in their stomach or digestive system, in most cases without knowing. In many cases this strain of bacteria is harmless, possibly even beneficial, but for 1 in 9 it can cause severe problems.
The helicobacter pylori or H. pylori is one of the bacteria that live […]
