It’s summertime! And whether you are planning on traveling abroad, enjoying a staycation, or working outdoors, it’s important to protect your skin from sun’s damaging rays. Why? Sun exposure can lead to sunburn, skin aging, eye damage, and skin cancer, which is the most common serious form of cancer. Despite…

Laboratory tests confirmed a compound found in soybeans was able to block damage to the lining of blood vessels in the heart and circulatory system. It may provide a way to prevent the cardiovascular adverse effects of recreational and medical marijuana use, according to preliminary research conducted at the American…

New laboratory research has produced a compound with anti-cancer properties directly from feverfew, a common flowering garden plant. The team at the University of Birmingham were able to extract the compound from the flowers and modify it to be used to kill chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells in the laboratory. …

A new study of workouts and waistlines, found that people who exercise in the before noon seem to lose more weight than people who complete the same workout later in the day. These results help better our understanding on this baffling issue of why some people lose considerable weight with…

A study suggests that higher doses of spironolactone, a diuretic, can prevent the need for dialysis in selected heart failure patients. The assertive approach safely and effectively relieved fluid overload in patients who were not responding to conventional diuretics. The study was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. It…

A large online survey suggests that women who push themselves to work despite their menstrual symptoms, such as painful cramps, may be less productive on those days and may benefit more to work from home or take the days off. This online survey, conducted in Theodoor Nieboer of Radboud University…

The FDA had just approved the first glucagon nasal powder (Baqsimi — Eli Lilly). This intranasal medication is approved for the emergency treatment of hypoglycemia in diabetic patients aged four years and older. Patients who are living with diabetes are at risk of decreased blood sugar levels below the normal…

The FDA is advising patients not to use any preparations manufactured by Herbal Doctor Remedies, a clinic in Monterrey Park, California, as they were manufactured under poor conditions. Herbal Doctor Remedies manufactured a number of products including Brain Forte, New Life, Lump Shrinker, Asma-F, Herpes-P, Anemia Off, Bone Fixer and…

The use of antibiotics without a prescription seems to be a widespread public health problem. According to research from a review published in Annals of Internal Medicine, antibiotics were obtained from saving leftover prescriptions for later use, getting them from friends/family or from the local markets “under the counter”. When…