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Laughter Yoga And How It Can Help
For many a term like laughter yoga sounds like a bunch of new age mumbo jumbo.
But pause a while and consider the fact that laughter has always been considered the best medicine, and besides laughing just makes one feel so good! So really there is no reason at all not to explore the option of [...]
Hospitals Hazardous To Health?
Many of us find hospitals off putting; they give us the creeps. And it is not just that a lot of us don’t like the antiseptic sights and smells of a hospital, many of us have their worst experiences and memories inextricably linked with hospitals.
And now according to this study, there are other reasons why [...]
10 Best States For Your Good Health And Well Being
The Gallup poll presented the ten best states for well being in the United States. The poll recorded people’s feeling of well-being on a scale from one to 100; 100 being ideal well-being.
Hawaii with its beautiful beaches, salubrious climate and scenic locales recorded the highest degree of wellbeing with 70.2 points.
Utah which was at no [...]
Home Cancer Detection Kits Could Be A Possibility Thanks To Sensor
Now a gadget smaller than a human hair could likely be a detection tool to identify a number of different diseases including prostate and breast cancer.
This is an acoustic resonant sensor that is currently being developed by engineering professor Jae Kwon at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
This sensor will be useful in detecting the [...]
Protein That Turns On Spread Of Cancer Identified
A specific protein has been identified which is known to enable a process that causes cancerous cells to migrate from the site of the original tumor and causes it to spread to other locations in the body and cause new tumors to form.
This protein has been called disabled-2 (or Dab2).
It is a process called epithelial-mesenchymal [...]
Women Turn To CAM Therapies For Breast Cancer
According to the U.S. Department of Defense Research, a growing number of women are now turning to complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) in a quest to recover from breast cancer. The questions about efficacy and safety of CAM are however not fully addressed, argue some researchers.
Biological therapies such as nutritional supplements and vitamins as well [...]
Migraine? Try Botox
We all know that Botox is a preferred method for smoothing age lines and wrinkles from faces, but now a study suggests that Botox can help prevent migraines as well.
A small study has suggested that those ocular migraines that are described as eye popping or crushing, may get help from Botox.
It is suggested that Botox [...]
Control Blood Pressure To Avoid Dementia
If the thought of heart attack does not scare you, perhaps the thought of dementia may? Now according to researchers, there is one more reason to control hypertension; to reduce risk of dementia.
According to a new research, brain scans that revealed certain scarring of the brain was seen to be linked to future development of [...]
TV Viewing Will Shorten Lifespan, Says Study
We all know there are plenty of reasons not to be a couch potato and that there are plenty of better ways to utilize the time, and now we have yet another: TV viewing impacts a viewer’s risk of death by shortening their life span, according to the study.
It was found that each hour of [...]
Third Hand Smoke – What’s That?
We had all heard about second hand smoke or passive smoking of course, which is the inhalation of secondhand smoke or environmental tobacco smoke, from tobacco products used by others, but now apparently there is third hand smoke as well.
Third hand smoke consists of the residue of cigarette smoke that gets left behind on floors, [...]
