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Do you look back fondly on your college days and marvel at how fit your grey matter was back then? Your body may have put on a freshman 15, but your brain was in prime fighting trim. You learned new things all the time and your short term memory was able to hold enormous amounts ...
Mineral foundations are one of those beauty products that makeup wearers seem to either love or hate. Some former acne sufferers swear by this powdery stuff since it contains no oils. But there is a growing contingent of women who are far from satisfied with how mineral makeup performs. They talk about itching skin, breakouts, ...
Watch out, America, it’s the attack of the Killer Cola! Would you buy a soft drink that came with a cancer warning? Executives at PepsiCo and Coca-Cola don’t want to find out. They are working feverishly to avoid the state of California’s new requirement that foods and beverages that contain methylimidazole (4-MI) must be labeled ...
Did you know that 40% of women in the US have curly hair? Some of this hair is kinky, some of it is wavy, and a few people have spiral curls like Shirley Temple. You might even have more than one kind of curly hair on your head! Regardless of what type of curly hair ...
Daylight Savings Time giveth, and it taketh away. Spring is the time when we “lose” an hour of sleep and have to set our clocks forward. This is also probably the Sunday each year when record numbers of church goers get to service embarrassingly late. For those who work weekends, there’s no extra day to ...
OK, so there’s a new health scare making the rounds that pertains to pet owners. The scary headline on MSN warns that “Cuddling dying pets gives owners scary infection”. This makes it sound like the bacteria in question (Pasteurella multicoda) is killing pets and then striking down the people who care for them – kind ...
While many health scares are manufactured in the fevered minds of the media and the general public, others are all too real. Iatrogenic and nosocomial infections are a prime example. These two types of hospital acquired infections (HAIs) are actually dramatically under-reported. Iatrogenic infections are caused by medical error. Nosocomial infections often occur just by ...
First, sunlight was good for your health. Now, it’s bad for you. At one time, vitamin D was good for you. Now, you guessed it! It can kill you. Apparently, there’s a new study making the rounds that connects high blood levels of vitamin D with a 3 fold increase in atrial fibrillation (irregular, too ...
It used to be that malware was the only electronically transmitted disease you had to worry about when you went online. However, it appears that the human/machine interface is now evolving in unexpected ways. According to Discovery Channel writer Eric Niiler, you can actually get sick via social networking. A dozen girls in a small ...
Talk about triggering men’s most deep seated fears! The recent rash of health scares over electronic devices that can kill sperm is a prime example of the kind of news headlines that ensure a click through. Last year, the culprit was the humble laptop. Leave one propped on your lap for a few hours and ...