Health

British Surgeon Uses Laser Therapy To Treat Breast Cancer

by Boomer Babe

The cancer surgeon that pioneered "keyhole mastectomy" in Britain, is now the pioneer of another new breast cancer treatment: a form of laser or light therapy, known as photodynamic therapy (PDT).

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Soon: A Once A Month Pill For Dogs And Cats

by Lady Bee

Scientists at the Merck Research Laboratories have finally come up with a once-a-month pill for dogs and cats. No, it's not for birth control; it's for fleas and ticks! And wait until you read about the other big benefit of the pill.... (important update added, June 30, 2009)

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BodyTrace eScale: The Smartest Bathroom Scale Ever

by Chris Weiss

The BodyTrace eScale uses a wireless connection to send your weight to the company's website. Once there, you can take advantage of a variety of tools to help you get in shape.

New Scale Makes Your Weight Public Knowledge

by Rane

A new product called the BodyTrace eScale is designed to keep track of your weight loss efforts – by posting the results online for all to see.

High Fat Diet May Lead To Pancreatic Cancer

by Rane

A new study now shows that a diet high in fat from red meats and dairy may be linked to pancreatic cancer.

Sudden Cardiac Arrest: Even Corn Flakes Can Be Killers

by Boomer Babe

This bowl of corn flakes looks innocent enough. I remember when corn flakes and milk was considered one of the healthiest meals you could eat. But in a groundbreaking study just released by Tel Aviv University, researchers actually observed the damage a diet of corn flakes, or other high carbohydrate foods, does to the heart.

Indian Curry Breaks Up Dementia Plaques In Mice

by Boomer Babe

Don't throw away your curry jar; it just may keep you from developing Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia. People from India and other cultures in the east where turmeric grows have a very low incidence of Alzheimer's, an observation which led to some recent mice experiments at Duke University.

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Synovi G3 For Dogs: Product Review

by Lady Bee

My dog had become slow and very careful, particularly when lying down or getting up from a lie down position. In the last few months, his movements became more labored and even his walk appeared strained ...

Funky and Fashionable Watch May Pave The Way For Non-Invasive Diabetes Monitoring

by Fashion Finds

Created by designer Sunghoon Mun is a diabetes watch prototype that provides an element of fashion, along with a much needed method to monitor health non-invasively.

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Life Preserver Pill Box Could Be a Life Saver

by Steve Levenstein

Pills, spills and thrills - that's what pill boxes and life preservers have in common. Now Troika combines the best features of both in a miniature life preserver travel case that holds all your life preserving pills and vitamins.

Zap Germs Before They Zap You With A Magic Germ Wand

by Must Love Gadgets

The Pocket Sized Germ Eliminating Light is the ultimate magic wand with the ability to eliminate up to 99.9 percent of bacteria, viruses, and mold in 20 seconds. It's UV-C light is used in hospital settings to sterilize surgical instruments, so you know it works... because no hospital is interested in law suits, right?

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Wood Biomimics Bone For More Functional Prosthetics

by T Goodman

For the first time, inspired by a tree's hierarchial structure of growth, Italian scientists have created bone prostheses from wood.

Good News And Bad News About Humans VS Chimps

by Boomer Babe

There is great genetic similarity in humans and chimpanzees, but there are notable differences between them that are observable; particularly increased brain size and cognitive abilities in humans. Could these factors possibly have anything to do with an increased incidence of cancer in humans? Far-fetched, perhaps, but the researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology wanted to find out.

Natural Moisturizing Lotion Leaves Skin As Soft As Silk

by Steve Levenstein

Skin as soft as silk isn't just an expression anymore, thanks to naturally moisturizing lotions, soaps and skin care products containing Sericin, a silk protein that has kept silk workers' hands smooth and soft for centuries.

A Memory Improvement Program Gets Big-Time Test... And Passes!

by Boomer Babe

With so many marketing "specialists" trying to get at our supposed savings, all advertising directed to the boomer is straining my credulity. But there's a memory fitness program that's been independently studied and been shown to roll back memory ability by an average of 10 years and improve mental processing by 131 percent in subjects over the age of 65! I hype you not!

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Early Diagnosis Of Alzheimer's Possible With Synchrotron Light

by Boomer Babe

Why, you might wonder, can't doctors just take an MRI or CT scan of our brains and tell us whether we are at risk for Alzheimer's disease or not. One simple answer is that the Aβ plaques that form in the brains of Alzheimer's patients are so small in the early stages of the disease that they can't be seen by current diagnostic methods. But that may soon change with new x-ray techniques....

Kinder, Gentler, Smokier: Japan Tobacco's 'Smoking Manners for Adults' Ads, Part 6

by Steve Levenstein

Japan Tobacco's admen likely burned through a lot of the company's main product in conjuring up 73 "Smoking Manners for Adults" ads. Gently chastising smokers while not turning them off tobacco altogether takes guts... and butts. Here's part 6; ads 51 through 60.

Nanotechnology Can Cure You If It Doesn't Kill You First

by Boomer Babe

In 2006, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars published a warning and a challenge to the scientific community about its responsible use and handling of nanomaterials, as they were known to cause damage to the lungs. Now, research conducted at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing, has unveiled how the damage occurs and a possible means of control.

Good & Greasy Fare At State And County Fairs

by Toby

If it's fat, you'll find it being served at state and county fairs this summer. As a nation we're trying so hard to get leaner and greener, but the demand for the big fat greasy still burns in our fat-famished American souls.

Bioengineering Student Discovers Key To Early Cancer Diagnosis

by Boomer Babe

Cancers that are detected early have the best chance of being cured but, until now, there were no methods of detecting cancer at its earliest stages. Raj Krishnan, a PhD student in bioengineering at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), has created a technology for the early diagnosis of cancer, giving new hope and possibility to cures that have eluded cancer victims for years because their diagnoses were too late.

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