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Remember I was talking of the guy who got cancer while working in a casino, Ya his name is Vincent Rennich I found his website “Smokefreecasinos” while surfing. He was saved due to an accident which led to an early diagnosis of his lung cancer.
He was lucky to be saved but I wish to [...]

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I read a very heart touching story of a guy, who never smoked in his life but got lung cancer merely by working in a casino. His blog even directed me to a news link saying that two years the government of New Jersey had banned people from smoking in public spaces of work and [...]

Health News: Constant gum infections… check out you may be infertile!

AUGUST 25. JERUSALEM - A recent study undertaken by Israel shows that there is a close relation between gum infections and male infertility.
Experts from Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine and Bikur Holim Hospital in Jerusalem have come to a conclusion that infertility and gum problems are directly related. It means that men, who have [...]

Health News: Now you can sniff and know skin cancer

AUGUST 24. PHILADELPHIA - There is a large number of ways by which doctors across the world detect diseases in their patients. Researchers at Monell Chemical Senses Center have come out with a very surprising new result that was never heard of. Their research has found that there is a new way of detecting whether [...]

Health News: Men above 40 are more likely to undergo prostrate cancer screening test

AUGUST 22. WASHINGTON - According to recent findings, experts have noticed some important statistics regarding prostrate cancer in men.
The findings reveal that one in every five men in their late 40s had undergone a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test last year and the number was more in young black men than in young white men.
The survey [...]

Health News: Researchers go one step further in discovering drugs for controlling obesity

AUGUST 22. WASHINGTON - Researchers have taken an important step towards making drugs that can control obesity in humans.
Recently, they developed a particular strain of mice resistant to obesity that is induced by diet. In fact, the researchers have also come to know some important facts related to the brain circuitry, which is responsible
in controlling [...]

Health News: Living in crowded houses may lead to tuberculosis

AUGUST 21, WELLINGTON - Tuberculosis is a grave disease that affects millions of people all over the world. The disease is considered to be a very fatal one and studies are carried out by researchers and scientists all over the world on a regular basis to better understand it.
A research was carried out by [...]

Health Tip: Causes and symptoms of rabies disease

Rabies is a viral zoonotic neuroinvasive disease which affects the brain causing death if not vaccinated properly. This disease affects all types of mammals including human beings. Without specific rabies treatment, nobody can survive with rabies. Any mammal can develop symptoms of rabies and can spread the disease to other mammals.
In most of the cases, [...]

Health News: Cow To Give Cancer Fighting Proteins

AUGUST 18. NEW DELHI - A cow with altered genes has been produced, which the researchers of China claim to be a rich source of cancer-fighting proteins. The cow is known to produce the CD20 antibodies in its milk.
This cow with special genes was born on August 2 and many more are expected to be [...]

Health News: Botox – The most preferred sweat treatment

AUGUST 15. BOSTON – Statistics says that Botox is the most preferred method to prevent excessive perspiration and is very much in demand at one of the private clinics.
Harley Medical Group reported that there has been a prominent rise in number of procedures, almost three times in the past three months, which is a 31% [...]

Health News: Women uncomfortable with revealing disease to family

AUGUST 15. SAN FRANCISCO – Shelley Volz, 59, was aware of her breast cancer 10 years from now. She came to know about it only minutes before she left for New York from San Francisco for her younger brother’s wedding.
She was in a dilemma, whether to reveal her health condition to anyone there or not.
Finally, [...]

Health News: A new video game for fighting cancer

AUGUST 14. WASHINGTON – Video games have long been criticized by many people for having adverse effects on children. It was believed that children, who played video games, were more likely to get violent in nature.
However, recently many researches were conducted on the effects of video games on children. It was surprisingly found that [...]

Health News: Heat likely to have more effect on elderlies

AUGUST 13. WASHINGTON – According to the U.S National Institute on Aging (NIA), due to the effects of ageing on the ability of a body to respond to summer heat, adults, especially older ones, are more at risk to develop heat related illness such as heat fatigue, heat stroke, heat exhaustion and heat cramps.
NIA [...]

Health News: Give second booster to your child for preventing chicken pox

AUGUST 13. NEW YORK – Since the introduction of vaccines having the capability of fighting chicken pox in United States, medical experts felt that this one-shot deal of giving one single injection when the child is one year old is enough to give them a lifelong immunity from the disease.
However, recently experts are learning [...]

Health News: Beijing unsafe for Olympians

AUGUST 12. WASHINGTON - The dreadful challenge, which most Olympians are facing, is the heat and humidity in Beijing. Again, researchers have commented that poor quality of the air will severely affect the performance and health of the athletes. Olympians, who suffer from asthma, may have a tough time during the Beijing Olympics 2008.
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