To paraphrase a great old slogan for Guinness beer: Sex isn’t just good, it’s good for you! Okay, so maybe there’s some wishful thinking going on — the science isn’t exactly iron-clad — but evidence is accumulating that the more sex you have, the better off you are. There is one caveat, though. “We do [...]
Hunger kills 18,000 kids each day Some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, a “terrible indictment of the world in 2007,” the head of the U.N. food agency said. James Morris called for students and young people, faith-based groups, [...]
British doctors give Viagra to save premature baby English doctors used the anti-impotence drug Viagra to save the life of a severely premature baby, media reports have said. Medics in the northeast city of Newcastle upon Tyne gave the drug to Lewis Goodfellow — who was born at 24 weeks, weighing just one pound, eight [...]
Your office desk harbors far more bacteria than your workplace restroom, and if you’re a woman, chances are your workspace has more germs than your male co-workers’, a new research report shows. Women have three to four times the number of bacteria in, on and around their desks, phones, computers, keyboards, drawers and personal items [...]
Sources reported that the U.S. health officials said Wednesday they are investigating a possible link between peanut butter and more than 100 salmonella cases in 37 states. ConAgra Foods Inc. the maker of Peter Pan brand peanut butter, has been contacted by the Food and Drug Administration, ConAgra spokesman Chris Kircher said, adding that the [...]
A disturbing number of doctors do not feel obligated to tell patients about medical options they oppose morally, such as abortion and teen birth control, and believe they have no duty to refer people elsewhere for such treatments, researchers say. The survey of 1,144 doctors around the country is the first major look at how [...]
Shopping Cart Handles Have More Germs Than Public Restrooms Grocery store shopping cart handles have more germs than public restrooms, making them one of the worst public places for germs, according to researchers. It’s a problem that at least one state, Arkansas, is trying to address, by passing a law forcing stores to clean up [...]
For women, apparently there’s nothing like the smell of a man’s sweat. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley said women who sniffed a chemical found in male sweat experienced elevated levels of an important hormone, along with higher sexual arousal, faster heart rate and other effects. They said the study, published this week [...]
Drivers who spend a lot of time behind the wheel increase their risk of skin cancer, US work suggests. Experts say repeated sun exposure through the car’s side windows is to blame, and drivers who roll down the window are at even greater risk. Most glass used for windows blocks UVB rays that cause sunburn [...]
A woman fitted with the world’s first “bionic arm” controlled by thought alone has been given back a sense of feeling. Claudia Mitchell, 26, a former US marine, regained the ability to carry out simple tasks such as cutting up food when she was fitted with the prosthetic arm last year. Now doctors have re-routed [...]
ORLANDO, Fla. — A Sanford mother says she will never be able to hold her newborn because an Orlando hospital performed a life-altering surgery and, she claims, the hospital refuses to explain why they left her as a multiple amputee. The woman filed a complaint against Orlando Regional Healthcare Systems, she said, because they won’t [...]
