It is said that “music soothes the savage beast”, but researchers have now discovered some musical instruments may also cause dangerous health risks. Research conducted recently and published in the March/April 2011 issue of General Dentistry, the peer-reviewed clinical journal of the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD), has shown some woodwind and brass instruments were [...]
Children may be being exposed to as much as 100 times the recommended limit of cadmium through inexpensive jewelry imported from China, safety authorities report. Some Chinese manufacturers are substituting lead for cadmium, a heavy metal, which when mouthed or swallowed, can build up in the system causing kidney, bone, lung, and liver disease, Canadian [...]
Research carried out by an influential German anesthetist on colloids, drugs used in surgery to boost fluid levels, has been pulled by editors of 16 medical journals and called “unethical”. Joachim Boldt, who worked at the Klinikum Ludwigshafen hospital in Rhineland, did not get the necessary approval to carry out the studies, yet continued to [...]
The emotional and psychological effects of losing an unborn child can last many years, a study released by both the U.S. and the U.K. found. The British Journal of Psychiatry reported some mothers may continue to suffer with depression and/ or anxiety even after they have had a healthy baby. 13,000 women participated in the [...]
Recent flyers distributed in South Africa advertising cash for human organs was discovered to be a hoax, officials there reported Thursday. The hoax was a publicity stunt for a soon to be released horror film, but authorities were working diligently to track down the alleged doctor issuing the ads. Even the Health Department issued a [...]
A recent study by the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. indicates the magnetic fields of cell phones does affect the brain. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study consisted of 47 people who had cell phones attached to both ears, one was off, the other on but muted so [...]
A new study revealed that teens with no previous tendency towards suicide or self-harm may be influenced to cutting themselves after watching videos and other web media on sites such as YouTube. The journal, Pediatrics, recently published the article, to warn parents about the material and the risk teens and young adults, those with and [...]
They sniff out drugs. They sniff out bombs. But can the canine nose sniff out cancer? Recent Japanese research indicates man’s best friend can be trained to detect cancer with their powerful sense of smell. It focused on a labrador retriever which, the study showed, could accurately detect colorectal cancer by sniffing samples of a [...]
New research reports women on the Pill are not more susceptible to heart attacks, as was previously thought. Mini-pills, such as Micronor and Ovrette, contain progestin but not estrogen, long the traditional hormone used in birth control pills which was link to heart attacks in the past. The results were similar for other progestin-only birth [...]
A top medical journal in England reports “adaptive pacing”, or taking it easy, is not the best treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome, as was previously thought. The Lancet published results, Friday, of the biggest ever study of the illness, which indicates the best treatment is exercise and behavior therapy. The study found this approach actually [...]