The 2006 adult onset mumps epidemic continues. The 2006 US mumps epidemic that began in Iowa has now spread to at least eight states.
Over 600 cases have been reported in Iowa with more in eight other states. The majority of cases are occurring among persons 18-25 years of age, many of whom [...]

The study conducted by researchers from Harvard University, the Medical University of South Carolina, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute indicates that lower levels of vitamin D can greatly increase the risk for men of cancer and death from cancer. The results showed a 45% increase in risk for cancers affecting the digestive system.
The study [...]

Researchers at the University of Boston have published a new study that finds a link between low vitamin K and increased hand and knee osteoarthritis. These are the most common types of arthritis and it is found mostly at older ages with the breakdown in the cushioning cartilage between joints. The study [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are alerting health care professionals and their patients who wear soft contact lenses to an increasing number of reports in the United States of rare but serious fungal infections in the eye that can cause permanent loss of sight. [...]

Desmond T. Doss, called the war hero without a gun, was the first conscientious objector to win a Medal of Honor, an honor he won as an army medic during WWII for numerous occasions of bravery under fire in saving dozens of lives. A devout member of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Mr. Doss he [...]

This occurs when your dog desires attention, either for physical or emotional reasons. Many working breeds, such as cattle dogs have been bred to do a job. They actually need an occupation, and may resort to barking if they don’t get one.
To treat excessive barking, see if the animal requires physical attention; try using [...]

It seems going to the dentist is not such a modern thing.
Researchers have found that stone age people apparently drilled their teeth with flint drills. According to researchers, folks in Pakistan were using dental drills made of flint about 9,000 years ago.
Researchers found the teeth in a Neolithic graveyard in Pakistan that [...]

More than 20 years have elapsed since aspartame was approved by regulatory agencies as an artificial sweetener. New research out of the European Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences bolsters recent calls for reconsideration of regulations governing aspartame’s widespread use in order to better protect public health, particularly that of children.
The researchers added [...]

Children given antibiotics in the first year of life may have more than twice the risk of asthma than children not exposed to the drugs. In a possibly important link to the explosion of allergies among children over the last few years, researchers at the University of British Columbia found that those [...]

Celebrate Earth day. Earth Day 2006 will launch a sustained, three-year campaign to educate consumers, corporations and governments worldwide on the urgent need to take concrete steps on climate change now ? before it’s too late. Our Goal For Earth Day ’06 ? 10,000 Climate Change Events WorldwideThe threat of global warming hangs over [...]