Teen-agers have often claimed that it is stress that makes them break out in spots. And they are probably right. Researchers have reported that even the stress of taking an exam can make pimples worse. This comes, perhaps, as no surprise.
What does give pause is a new theory advanced that one of the causes may be inflammation not greasy skin. Continue reading ‘Teens break out in spots because of stress’
Food scientists at Ohio State University in Columbus have grown a special variety of tomato, an orange tomato. that may be healthier than garden-variety red tomatoes. The orange tomatoes contain a type of lycopene that is more readily used by the body than the type found in red tomatoes. And lypocene is an anti-oxidant thought to do all sort of good things such as reducing the risk of cancer, heart disease and age-related eye problems.
Lycopene makes tomatoes red and gives other fruits and vegetables their rich color.
Continue reading ‘Orange tomatoes better than red tomatoes’
Many drugs are sold on the Internet stating firmly they are from Canada. Often they are not.
In the United States the US Food and Drug Administration (the FDA) has the task of keeping Americans safe from iffy products. It is not taxed with keeping Americans safe from drug companies that make extortionate profits.
It does check that medicines coming in from overseas do not break the rules. Mostly they do. And mostly they do not come from the country suggested. Continue reading ‘It may say it is from Canada, it is not’
lndiana has instituted a method for reporting things going wrong in hospitals. Among the top errors made in Indiana hospitals were foreign objects left inside surgical patients according to the state’s first mandatory medical error report.
Surgical mistakes comprised nearly 50 percent of all errors made.
It would be totally wrong to make from that an inference that Indiana is worse than other states, other countries. It almost certainly is not. It is just that it now has a mandatory reporting system.
Continue reading ‘Surgical mistakes near 50% of all errors’
A new report suggests that men with HIV who get circumcised hoping they will be less likely to transmit the AIDS virus may have a greater-than-normal risk of infecting their partners if they resume sexual activity too soon after the operation. To which you must add: Possibly. Maybe. Perhaps.
So first we should look at the idea of circumcision. Continue reading ‘Circumcision may or may not help’
According to a new poll released by the National Sleep Foundation (this is a non-profit body that has been around since 1960 and does not appear to be influenced by any commercial pressures) six out of ten American women say they only get a good night’s sleep a few nights per week or less and 67 percent say they frequently experience a sleep problem.
Continue reading ‘Survey suggests women do not get enough sleep’
Health officials in a Chinese province denied the findings of a US university study that said their region was the source of many strains of the deadly bird flu virus. To get this into perspective you need to understand that China has been accused of much and is very touchy about accusations like this.
Continue reading ‘Officials say China not source of bird flu’
In the days of Queen Victoria, women who slimmed went on the fashionable Banting diet devised by William Banting. Lots of protein, little carbohydrates. Then, at the end of the last century A doctor called Atkins came up with the same diet, slightly more emphasis on the protein, and the medical world was up in arms. Basically the argument went that such a diet might result in a loss of weight, but that would be from muscle not from fat.
Continue reading ‘Atkins diet sort of approved’
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