Bad breath results from two key issues: oral hygiene and gastrointestinal health. Basically this means that breath odors originate not just inside the mouth but also from your digestive tract. The culprit in both cases is largely bacteria. Doctors will tell you that if you have bad breath, you should first make sure you are [...]
*A double helix in a file image. Scientists have identified several genetic risk factors for prostate cancer, shedding new light on the cause of a leading worldwide cancer killer.* For a walnut-sized organ, the prostate is the source of a lot of misery. Apparently, it has only two jobs: Producing the fluid in which semen [...]
People from families prone to Parkinson’s who drink coffee or smoke are less likely to develop the disease, researchers said on Monday in a finding that reinforces earlier observations and offers potential paths to treatment. The researchers doubt that smoking and caffeine protect from Parkinson’s, but say the information offers clues about how environment works [...]
Nearly 30 percent of Americans need mental health care but only about a third of them receive it, researchers say. Reporting in the March issue of the journal Psychiatric Services, researchers interviewed 816 people in Baltimore between 1993 and 1999. They found that the most common conditions requiring treatment were alcohol dependence (14 percent) and [...]
Experts describe the physical and mental signs that may indicate emotional distress. Maybe you’re having that proverbial “bad day” – or perhaps a rough few weeks: Feeling down, anxious, overstressed, as if you’re one breath away from the “last straw.” If so, you may be surprised to learn it’s quite common; doctors say it’s part [...]
*Mother Superior Margie Cheong, headmaster of the Catholic girls school La Villa de las Ninas* Hundreds of girls at a Mexican boarding school run by Catholic nuns have been struck by a mystery illness that authorities say is psychological, raising questions about conditions inside the academy. Headmistress Margie Cheong, a nun from South Korea, said [...]
Rio de Janeiro hospitals have been sending obese people to share medical test equipment with horses at the local race track, drawing complaints from activists who say the practice is humiliating. “When people weigh more than the standard equipment can support they have to be directed to the Jockey Club, which is the only place [...]
An Air Force veteran has filed a federal claim after an operation at a Veterans Administration hospital in which a healthy testicle was removed instead of a potentially cancerous one. Benjamin Houghton, 47, was to have had his left testicle removed June 14 at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center because there was a [...]
A man who recklessly infected his Edinburgh lover with HIV and hepatitis C has been jailed for nine years. Giovanni Mola refused to wear condoms after beginning a sexual relationship with a woman in Edinburgh in 2003. Mola, 38, who claimed to have had 200 lovers, had been diagnosed with the viruses three years earlier. [...]
“I just know God is with me. I can feel Him always,” a young Haitian woman once told me. “I’ve meditated and gone to another place I can’t describe. Hours felt like mere minutes. It was an indescribable feeling of peace,” recalled a CNN colleague. “I’ve spoken in languages I’ve never learned. It was God [...]
Will you lose weight and keep it off if you diet? No, probably not, UCLA researchers report in the April issue of American Psychologist, the journal of the American Psychological Association. “You can initially lose 5 to 10 percent of your weight on any number of diets, but then the weight comes back,” said Traci [...]
