Schoolgirl Nomasonto Masango giggles as she lists the things she and her friends want boyfriends to buy them.

"If you have an older boyfriend, he can buy you things and it is nice to show your...

A set of surgical tools once used by a Nazi war criminal will be auctioned in Britain this Saturday and is expected to fetch around 2,000 pounds.

Though disguised as a music box, the kit's case...

Pharmaceutical saleswomen in Singapore have no qualms in having sex with doctors in a bid to boost their sales, according to reports.

A 30-year-old saleswoman, known only as Cheryl, has heard of...

Doctors at the trauma centre of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Tuesday said that the health of two-year-old battered infant Falak was improving.

Falak, who has been in coma...

Girls born to mothers over 39 years and women who were taller and thinner than the average girl prior to puberty faced higher chances of developing breast cancer.

These findings were based on an...

Diabetes can cause erectile dysfunction (ED), which can lead to an even more serious condition, experts have warned.

"Most men do not realize that ED is a warning sign of potential cardiovascular...

The Australian cricket body has ordered the removal of a boundary-rope advertisement of an Indian mouthwash in Hindi after health authorities launched a probe over its similarity with a chewing...

Doctors have for the first time fitted a 3D printer-created lower jaw to an 83-year-old woman's face in the Netherlands.

The transplant was carried out in June, but is publicised only now.

The...

Women born to mothers aged over 39 years and women who were taller and thinner than the average girl prior to puberty have a higher risk of developing breast cancer.

These are the results of a new...

Although the Asia-Pacific region has witnessed widespread gains in combating the spread of HIV, experts at a United Nations meeting were told today that the epidemic is still outpacing the region's...

At least 11 factory workers, most of them women, were killed when a three-storeyed building collapsed due to a factory blast in Pakistan's Lahore city, said rescue teams and health officials.

The...

Best Nursing Homes aims to make one of life's most difficult decisions a little easier. For the 3.3 million Americans who move into a nursing home each year, and for their caregivers and loved...

The chemical lab of the future could look like a farm, with thousands of plants naturally using photosynthesis to produce complex drugs, chemicals, and biofuels, according to a Danish research team. ...

Taipei, Feb. 7, 2012 (CENS)--With improving global business climate, Johnson Health Tech Co., a world-leading fitness equipment maker and supplier in Taiwan, expects double-digit growth this year...

For health authorities to avoid a financial penalty, 90 per cent of their hip patients must be treated within 26 weeks, 90 per cent of knee patients within 26 weeks, and 90 per cent of cataract...

Paula Allen, vice president of Health Solutions at Morneau Shepell, discusses the importance of employees being able to freely discuss mental health...

Journal of Clinical Investigation. "News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: Feb. 6, 2012." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 7 Feb. 2012. Web.7 Feb. 2012....

cartilage damage associated with osteoarthritis. Researchers say the concentration of two molecules called non-coding RNAs in blood were associated with mild cartilage damage in 30 patients who...

stroke has been identified by scientists in a study published online in Nature Genetics. This is one of the few genetic variants to date to be associated with risk of stroke and the discovery opens...

North Carolina State University researchers have created specially engineered mammalian cells to provide a new "chemical handle" which will enable researchers to label proteins of interest...

University of British Columbia researchers have discovered the molecular pathway that enables receptors inside immune cells to find, and flag, fragments of pathogens trying to invade a host. The...

cancer . Current methods of testing DNA samples, Sanger sequencing and pyrosequencing, occasionally produce complex results that can be difficult or impossible to interpret. Scientists at the Johns...

obesity prevention, according to a new study in the online issue of Pediatrics. Today, one out of five American children is obese. Young children who are overweight are five times more likely than...

Immune cells capable of attacking healthy organs "see" their targets differently than do protective immune cells that attack viruses, according to work published online this week in the...

diabetes when lifestyle modifications such as diet, exercise, and weight loss have failed to adequately improve high blood sugar. ACP also recommends that clinicians add a second drug to metformin...

An analysis of research on physical punishment of children over the past 20 years indicates that such punishment is potentially harmful to their long-term development, states an article in CMAJ...

American College of Physicians. "News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: Feb. 7 2012." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 7 Feb. 2012. Web.7 Feb. 2012....

breast cancer genetics has been peeled back. A team of researchers at Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center (KCC) led by Richard G. Pestell, M.D., PhD., FACP, Director of the KCC and Chair of the...

A research team led by UC Davis Health System scientists has developed a novel technique to enhance bone growth by using a molecule which, when injected into the bloodstream, directs the...

Repeated, low-dose injections of mononuclear cells derived from human umbilical cord blood (MNC hUCB, tradename: U-CORD-CELL™) have been found effective in protecting motor neuron cells,...

The great paradox of global health efforts is that regions of the world most plagued by poverty, poor infrastructure and rampant disease are often the most difficult to deliver care to. In addition,...

suicidal thoughts and behaviors in young patients prompted the FDA to issue a rare "black box warning." Now, a new analysis of clinical trial data finds that treatment with the...

hernia (CDH), a common and often deadly birth defect. Their sophisticated data-filtering strategy, which uses gene expression during normal development as a starting point, offers a new, efficient...

Research led by Wanguo Liu, PhD, Associate Professor of Genetics at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has identified a new protein critical to the development and growth...

body weight because it draws on fat stores that muscle can burn as fuel. But a new study at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) suggests that the heart also plays a role in...

Closing elementary and secondary schools can help slow the spread of infectious disease and should be considered as a control measure during pandemic outbreaks, according to a McMaster University led...

cancer drugs has been linked to a slightly elevated chance of fatal side effects, according to a new analysis led by scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. They added that the risk remains low,...

Taste receptors on the tongue help us distinguish between safe food and food that's spoiled or toxic. But taste receptors are now being found in other organs, too. In a study published online...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Recent clinical guidelines recommend against routine ovariancancer screening because incidence of ovarian cancer is low, there is no proof thatscreening affects mortality rates,...

A former employee of the Central Coast Nursing Center pleaded guilty last week to neglecting a dependent adult under circumstances likely to produce great bodily harm. Brian Watt, who was 29 years...

Prostate cancer got a kick in the pants Thursday when researchers presented a new promising drug that greatly improves survival rates in patients. The experimental drug, named MDV3100, reduced the...

Carolyn Dewa remembers a time when her research on mental illness in the workplace often prompted a jarring question. "Why shouldn't those people just be fired?" In the...

Eileen Melvin , president of UMF Medical, and the company's recent expansion overseas. The Richland Township company has begun doing business in Saudi Arabia, thanks to help from the...

Personal Health: Safer road designs can slow motor vehicles and separate them from pedestrians and cyclists, and also enhance the physical activity and health of...

MINNEAPOLIS — Carter Holmes loved to run. He ran track in high school and was on the University of Minnesota's Big 10 cross-country championship team in 1969. For 35 years, Carter ran...

Last night our safe house in Homs turned into a makeshift field hospital for injured fighters and today funerals are taking place - as residents fear a full-on regime assault. The first indicator...

By Linda Carroll Patients often see multiple doctors before they get their headaches diagnosed – and Harry Potter, it turns out, is no exception.Back in 2007 a leading headache specialist,...

By Allison Linn Wal-Mart is unveiling a simple icon that it says will help consumers make a snap decision about whether a food is healthy, without delving into the nitty-gritty of the nutrition...