A simple torso-rotating exercise can significantly improve the condition of people with scoliosis, where the spine curves in an S or C shape, according a Kiwi researcher.
David Woodbridge, an Auckland physiotherapist, says that repeating the simple back-strengthening exercises can make a major difference to the lives of those suffering from the inherited condition.
It [...]
Despite major progress reducing overall colorectal cancer incidence and death rates in the United States, black men and women are still 45 percent more likely than whites to die of the disease.
That finding was contained in a report released Monday by the American Cancer Society.
The Colorectal Cancer Facts & Figures 2008-2010 [...]
In an effort to combine the properties of plastics and metals, scientists have developed a composite material, which not only conducts electricity like metals but is also light and inexpensive like plastics.
The plastic-metal hybrids will be used in the very places where plastic components are equipped with printed circuit boards, for instance in cars or [...]
If you are bitten by a dog, then there are a lot of things that you need to take care of quickly. You obviously need to go to the emergency room for stitches and antibiotics. In the process, you should try to figure out just who owned the dog. That will make things a lot [...]
A breakdown in a reaction between immune cells and blood vessels in the brain appears to play a key role in epilepsy, Italian researchers said on Monday.
The discovery could mean that some modern antibody-based drugs designed to modify the immune system used in other diseases may one day help fight the debilitating disorder.
A study of [...]
A new study has shown that positive and stimulating environmental conditions make it easier to treat cocaine addiction.
This is the first time, researchers from the Institut de physiologie et biologie cellulaire (CNRS/Université de Poitiers) have shown that environmental conditions play a major role in treating drug addiction and in preventing relapses, reports Science Daily.
In the [...]
When it comes to watching porn or experimenting with drugs and alcohol, school-going children in Delhi, be it boys or girls, are far from being shy, claims a latest survey.”26 per cent of the boys surveyed fell in the moderate category and 21 per cent fell in the high category when it came to [...]
Ear infections are common in children, and may occur for a variety of reasons.
But certain factors — both environmental and beyond anyone’s control — may increase your child’s risk.
The American Academy of Family Physicians lists these common risk factors for ear infections in children:
Being around cigarette smoking.
Having had ear infections before, frequent [...]
If breast cancer runs in the family, women can be at high risk even if they test free of the disease’s most common gene mutations, sobering new research shows. The genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are linked with particularly aggressive hereditary breast cancer, and an increased risk of ovarian cancer, too.
When a breast cancer patient is [...]
Police across Southeast Asia have arrested 27 people and seized 6.6 million dollars worth of counterfeit anti-HIV drugs, antibiotics, and other medicines, Interpol said Tuesday.
The global police organisation said 16 million fake pills, also including anti-malaria and anti-tuberculosis drugs, were netted in Operation Storm, a five-month sting that ended in September.
Nearly 200 raids were carried [...]