Low cost health insurance programs offer health insurance policies at a much lower price than other insurance companies. Often students, people who are unemployed and low-income families seem to be the best candidates for low cost health insurance. They can choose from many of the best low cost health insurance policies that offer coverage at [...]
Gene therapy is an experimental technique that uses genes to treat or prevent disease. In the future, this technique may allow doctors to treat a disorder by inserting a gene into a patients cells instead of using drugs or surgery. Researchers are testing several approaches to gene therapy, including replacing a mutated gene that causes [...]
With the ever increasing number of medicinal compounds, chemicals and drugs it is necessary to have a centralized source of information by which any researcher or doctor can investigate the treatments he may wish to make for a patient. Unlike a manual that only lists the types of pills or tablets available, the Pharmacopoeia attempts [...]
Women have been using face masks for ages. Many years ago, Egyptian and Greek women put them on their face to keep the skin fresh and young. Women who shower in the morning, should use a lighter moisturizer for use under their make-up for facial skin care and night bathers should use a heavier preparation. [...]
People may choose to do sun tanning without any clothes and go completely nude. This can maximize the health benefits of tanning and increases the sensatory experience too. This is also a great way of avoiding the tan lines such between the exposed and the unexposed parts of the body. There are several beaches across [...]
Since time immemorial, man has been concerned about penis size – and with good reason, as it turns out. Science cites compelling reasons from nature and human history why the male with the bigger penis has an advantage. In nature, the main priority of any mammal is survival and procreation. The female mammal is not [...]
Silicosis. Lung cancer. Tuberculosis. Renal disease. Autoimmune disorders. It may sound like a litany of unfair and terrifying illnesses, but it’s worse – it’s a list of the potential side effects of silica exposure in the workplace. And with 1.7 million workers facing industrial silica exposure in a number of professions, it’s of growing concern [...]
Over the past decade, the scientific information on traumatic brain injury has increased considerably. A number of models, theories and hypotheses of traumatic brain injury have been elaborated. Despite dramatic advances in this field of medicine, traumatic brain injury, including the mild 2 Slobounov and Sebastianelli traumatic brain injury (MTBI), commonly known as a concussion, [...]
In 2004 the FDA approved an implantable, rice grain sized microchip for use in humans. The tiny subcutaneous RFID chip, made by a company called VeriChip, is being marketed as a lifesaving device. If you’re brought to an emergency room unconscious, a scanner in the hospital doorway will read your chip’s unique ID. That will [...]
