The strangest everyday causes of wrinkles
Wrinkles. Everyone has them right? Despite this, there seems to be an obsession with wrinkles, making plastic surgeons bank balances expand, and the average suburban women’s decrease, but at [...]
How to protect yourself from the sun
We love the sun! And this holiday season, we know we are going to be spending a lot of time baring our skin to the glorious warmth of the shining sun, weather on the beach, in the park, or just [...]
Mental Health Side effects have been updated for Chantix and Zyban
Chantix and Zyban are known far and wide as effective drugs in the war against stopping smoking. As particularly effective drugs, when the headline of this update first headlined, there was a lot [...]
How do antibiotics work?
In 1928, the first antibiotic was discovered by Alexander Fleming. Called penicillin, a name that has been heard and used around the world, it revolutionized medicine and became the first [...]
HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device Recalled
HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD) Pumps by HeartWare Inc.: Class I Recall The Medtronic HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD) helps deliver blood from the heart to the rest of the [...]
Gene Manipulation Can Reverse Aging
Researchers at Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, have undergone a study to see whether aging can be reversed by reprogramming the genome. Not in humans of course, but rather in mice. And as [...]
FDA approves Jardiance for adults with type 2 diabetes
Clinical trials have concluded for the use of Jardiance (empagliflozin) for the use in reducing the risk of cardiovascular death in type 2 diabetic adults. Jardiance is traditionally a diabetes [...]
How many calories do we eat on Christmas day?
Christmas is coming! How we all love Christmas! The family, the food, the gifts and of course the religious celebrations for many households. My favorite part of Christmas is the food of course; [...]
Taxotere – the cancer treatment that causes permanent hair loss
Every cancer patient these days expects some sort of side effect from the particularly harsh chemotherapy drugs on the market. It has become almost common place to expect that you might feel [...]
Dr. Henry Heimlich, the man behind the Heimlich maneuver dies at age 96.
What do you do if someone is choking? A large majority of the population only knows the answer to this question because of one man, Dr. Henry Heimlich. Dr. Heimlich was made famous by his [...]
