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A Statistics Canada report on workplace injuries published on Tuesday morning found that obese women had nearly twice the odds of being wounded at work, in comparison to those whose weight was considered in the normal range. Men were off the hook as the same finding did not emerge for them.
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There's very little evidence that a diet rich in tomatoes and the tomato antioxidant lycopene can keep away cancer, according to new study from the US Food and Drug Administration.
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Autism can sometimes be diagnosed in children as young as one year of age, researchers suggested in newly published studies.
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Infants born to women using commonly prescribed antidepressants during the first three months of their pregnancies are imposed to an increased risk of serious birth defects, though the danger remains tiny, according to a couple of newly published studies.
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One of the latest studies showed new evidence that omega-3 fatty acids, found in known fish-oil supplements, might be protecting you against diseases that affect retinal blood vessels, known as retinopathy, according to press and media reports on Tuesday.
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Doctors on Sunday cancelled there controversial proposal to designate video game addiction as a mental disease similar to alcoholism, indicating that psychiatrists should start studying the issue deeper than before.
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Scientists and medical researchers for the first time have explained a new technique that measures in real time the rate of damage to the skin from being exposed to sun or from aging factors, initial results indicated that women's skin ages faster than men's.
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A new allergy medicine may be offering long-term relief from the miseries of hay fever with only six weekly injections, instead of shots once or two times per week over a total period of three to five years, US researchers indicated in their study results published this week.
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For hundreds of years, mothers have been thinking that breastfeeding will ass to their babies intelligence. But according to a new study, it is not breastfeeding that enhances the youngsters' IQ. Instead their intelligence is inherited from their mothers.
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Cataracts are a well-known problem that occurs with eyesight, usually due to ageing. The condition may result from a variety of causes over varying time periods, and here we try to offer you the basic 411.
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Cellulite is often a great source of embarrassment, especially amongst women, who seek to conceal what they perceive as undesirable. While very normal, minimally significant, we hope to offer you a better understanding and means of prevention.
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Color blindness is the inability to perceive colors in a normal fashion. Color blindness is an inherited condition that is sex linked recessive. As a result, very few women are colorblind, but approximately 1 in 10 men has some degree of color blindness.
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Hemorrhoids is the name given to swollen veins in the wall of the rectum and around the anus. The most susceptible group of the population to developing this condition are pregnant women- mainly due to pressure by the fetus- and those with digestive system problems specially constipation- due to excessive strain of bowel movements. A colonic tumor may rarely be the cause.
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Colonic cancer is a very common type of cancer that can occur anywhere in the large intestine but usually occurs near the rectum. The tumors usually begin as small benign growths in the wall of the intestine but can then change to the malignant type.
In most cases of colonic cancer, there is no obvious cause for the condition. Only a few people have a family history of the disease. In addition to family history, colonic cancer may have other risk factors such as having ulcerative colitis (an inflammation of the colon), eating a high-fat low-fiber diet or eating too much overcooked food.
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Scientists indicated that they have found a cream that may drive away skin cancer by tanning skin a golden bronze without having to be exposed to the sun.
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One-third of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder sufferers are found to be in relation with prenatal exposures to cigarette smoke or childhood exposures to lead, researchers indicated to the press on Monday 18 September 2006.
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Women who are used to eating fatty fish such as salmon, mackerel and herring at a minimum of once a week had a significantly lower risk of developing kidney cancer in comparison to those who consume lean fish, researchers reported on Tuesday 19 September 2006.
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US researchers reported on Wednesday, September 20 2006 that they had discovered a switch in the brain that keeps control of the emotional response to fear, and indicted that it might one day be manipulated to help patients with anxiety disorders.
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Hormone therapy for men suffering prostate cancer has become a support of treatment, but a new Harvard study found out that the treatment might be increasing the risk for diabetes and heart disease without enhancing the chances for survival.
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A severe bird flu pandemic among humans could cost the global economy up to $2 trillion, the World Bank said on Sunday, sharply raising earlier estimates.
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Men may have one more thing to thank their Dads for: strong, enduring adult relationships. Researchers say boys who bond with parents - especially their fathers - are more intent as adults on committing to married life, compared with those who don't.
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Motion sickness is caused by the motion associated with travel by ship, air or car, or any activity that is accompanied by irregular motion; first occurring in the inner ear, it may leave the affected feeling nauseous, sweaty and drowsy.
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Ménière's is characterized by fluctuating hearing loss, vertigo, and tinnitus (ringing or buzzing in the ear). The vertigo consists of dramatic and debilitating attacks, during which the patient feels that either she or the room is moving.
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Childhood allergies are on rising continuously around the globe, including in many developing nations where asthma, eczema and hay fever are emerging as important public health problems, scientists said in a report published on Friday, 18 August 2006.
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An injury to the cervical vertebrae and adjacent soft tissues that occurs from a sudden jerking, or backward or forward acceleration of the head; now, the next time you see someone at a Coffee shop in a neck brace, you'll think, hey, whiplash.
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