results of a new study are now giving you another reason why you should leave that packet of fries untouched. Reducing the consumption of processed and fried foods, which are high in toxins called Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs), can reduce inflammation and actually help restore the body's natural defences regardless of age or health status.These benefits are present even without changing c...

at Fox Chase Cancer Center found that radiation treatment for women who had a lumpectomy for early-stage breast cancer can be safely reduced to four weeks, instead of the usual six to seven weeks, by delivering a higher daily dose, greatly reducing the length of treatment time.The five-year results of the phase II study will be presented today at the annual meeting of the American Society for Radi...

What do patients want from their radiation oncologists? The most significant preference is that more than one-third of female cancer patients (37 percent) prefer to have their hands held by their radiation oncologists during important office visits, compared to 12 percent of men, according to a randomized study presented November 4, 2009, at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radi...

increasing number of Asian women are going for boob-boosting surgeries to improve their self-esteem.The rise in the number is also due to the techniques, which are getting simpler and much safer than before.Bigger breasts can be achieved within 20 minutes by a competent plastic surgeon and the patient can get back to work within 24-48 hours with a massive boost in her self-confidence.Renowned Swed...

sign hung at 12, rue Chabanais, in the days when the building housed the most prestigious of Paris' infamous bordellos, read "Welcome to the Chabanais: The House of All Nations".With the brothels closed down 60 years ago, nowadays the skinny eight-storey building on a tiny street near the Louvre houses an employment agency and a bunch of flats. But right across the road, at number 11, a gallery is...

Cutting carbon dioxide emissions is not meant only for factories and money-making corporates. You can do it too, says the British Government's waste watchdog in its most recent report.It has determined that large wardrobes of seldom-used clothes are no longer environmentally acceptable and people should instead rent outfits and accessories, thus helping to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.Accord...

China's rapidly developing economy is the driving force behind boosting number of syphilis cases over the past decade in the country, a senior public health official has said.Xiang-Sheng Chen said the country witnessed a tenfold increase in the sexually transmitted disease that was virtually eradicated in the 1960s.Chen added cases were growing 30 percent a year owing to prostitution, mass migrati...

Links between city walkability and air pollution exposure has revealed that some neighborhoods might be good for walking, but they could have poor air quality, analyzes a new study.University of Minnesota faculty member Julian Marshall and University of British Columbia faculty Michael Brauer and Lawrence Frank did the study for the city of Vancouver to check the potential environmental health eff...

Reports say despite the fact that tinnitus is a very distressing condition, not enough is being done to support patients who experience the problem, according to an extensive research review.As many as one in seven people will experience tinnitus, or ringing in their ears, at some time of their life, but most patients are told that nothing can be done to ease the condition."Despite the fact that i...

a new research, paleoecologists are offering a new insight into how climate change will affect organisms.The research, by Robert Booth, assistant professor of earth and environmental science at Lehigh University, examines some of the potential problems with current prediction methods and calls for the use of a range of approaches when predicting the impact of climate change on organisms.According ...

Natalya Lepyoshkina smiled as she fed her three-week-old "children" a meal of warm cow's blood, rinsed them off with water and poured them into an array of glass jars."They're happy, they're full," she said as the young leeches, squirming and swollen from their meal, settled into the containers that would be their home until the next feeding.Lepyoshkina's charges were among the three million leech...

Reduced Physical Activity May Not Be The Cause For Obesity Among US Adolescents!According to a study reduced physical activity may do little in explaining the increase in obesity rates among U.S. adolescents.Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health investigated concerns that the spike due to decreased physical activity linked with increased TV viewing time and other seden...