What’s the worst thing you could be burdened with this Valentine’s Day? Unrequited love? Unwanted affection? Unpaid invoice from the local florist? How about an itchy dose of pubic lice? Pubic lice, Phthirus pubis, or “crabs” as more commonly...
Extra, extra! The embargo’s lifted, read all about it. Rumors were flying through the blogosphere this winter: physicists at the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) may finally have directly detected gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time predicted by Einstein 100 years ago in his general theory of relativity. Gravitational waves were predicted to be produced by cataclysmic...
Urinary incontinence is often seen as a degrading condition and women can feel too ashamed to seek help. Urinary incontinence is urine leakage from a loss of bladder control that mainly affects women
Urinary incontinence is often seen as a degrading condition and women can feel too ashamed to seek help. Urinary incontinence is urine leakage from a loss of bladder control that mainly affects women
Wearing the scars: Hugh Jackman has talked about having a number of skin cancers removed from his nose.Skin cancer is in the news with actor Hugh Jackman reporting on Twitter that he has had another basal cell...
Wearing the scars- Hugh Jackman has talked about having a number of skin cancers removed from his nose.
Skin cancer is in the news with actor Hugh Jackman reporting on Twitter that he has had another basal cell cancer of the skin removed, and warning against too much exposure to the sun.
“An example of what happens when
Wearing the scars: Hugh Jackman has talked about having a number of skin cancers removed from his nose.Skin cancer is in the news with actor Hugh Jackman reporting on Twitter that he has had another basal cell...
A woman sunbathes on a warm summer day on a private beach in Nice, France.Eighty years ago, when sun exposure was first associated with skin cancer, popular culture was exalting tanning by emphasizing that a “fine brown color suggests ...
Long-term stable foster placements can achieve similar outcomes to adoption.Victorian child protection law reforms due to come into effect next month will give parents two years from when a child is removed to demonstrate that the child should
Imagine your child requires a life-saving operation. You enter the hospital and are confronted with a stark choice. Do you take the traditional path with human medical staff, including doctors and nurses, where long-term trials have shown a 90% chance that..
Studies show Chinese women view advanced age as a positive time of wisdom and maturity.
This article is part of our series examining women’s hidden health conditions. You can read about bacterial vaginosis, pelvic inflammatory disease and other pieces in the
How quickly your body breaks down nicotine may determine if a pill or a patch will be the most effective way to quit smoking. “In this new trial, we’ve shown that it is possible to optimize quit rates for smokers, while minimizing side effects, by selecting treatment based on whether people break down nicotine slowly or normally
Along with just about every other aspect of real or imagined differences between the sexes, the idea that your biological sex will determine the sex of your brain – and so your behaviour, aptitudes and personality – has a long and ...
Broccoli is frequently touted as a food that can help prevent cancer, but a compound found in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables also may treat it.
Health is one of the biggest topics searched for on the web, yet despite its importance a large portion of this information is inaccurate, anecdotal or biased.
Food cravings often stem from basic unmet needs for fun, excitement, or love -- issues most would consider "normal" and within our power to self-heal. Some people's food cravings remain constant; for example, they always crave ice cream. Other people go through "food kicks" in different weeks.
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Futurologist Ian Pearson recently predicted that by 2050 it will be possible to implant devices into our pets and other animals to give them the ability to speak to us.
This raises the interesting question of
The UK’s most prolific murderer, Harold Shipman, would have been 70 this year had he not killed himself 16 years ago in Wakefield Prison. He managed to kill at least 250 women without alerting suspicion. The whistle was blown
Girls star Lena Dunham suffers form endometriosis, a condition that affects one out of every ten women of menstruating age.
This article is part of our series examining hidden women’s conditions. You can read about chronic thrush, pelvic inflammatory disease and
Girls star Lena Dunham suffers form endometriosis, a condition that affects one out of every ten women of menstruating age.
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