Flu Symptoms: How To Tell If You Have The Flu

Flu Symptoms: How To Tell If You Have The Flu

  With news spreading that this year’s flu virus may be more severe than in years past, it’s understandable to feel some anxiety. In fact, the CDC is reporting that 29 states are experiencing a more widespread and virulent flu than last year’s strain, though doctors suggest that the actual strains are not so different [...]

LED Ice Cubes Detect Alcohol, Tell You When To Stop Drinking (VIDEO)

LED Ice Cubes Detect Alcohol, Tell You When To Stop Drinking

  First there was the HAPIfork, a smart fork that tells users when they may be overeating. Now, alcohol drinkers have their own resource that tracks when they may have had one too many. After an alcohol-induced blackout put him in the hospital, MIT Media Lab researcherDhairya Dand created LED ice cubes that detect alcohol and flash various colors [...]

Competition Affects Who Gets A Liver Transplant: Study

A surgeon holds the liver during an operation to extract the liver and the kidneys from a brain-dead women at the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (UKB) hospital in Berlin January 12, 2008. Credit: Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch

  (Reuters) – More competition between medical centers that perform liver transplants may mean sicker patients get lower-quality donor organs, according to a U.S. study. When more than one center has patients on the same donor list, the centers have an incentive to get organs for as many of their own patients as possible, wrote [...]

Hangover Cures: Ways To Prevent, Cure Your New Year’s Eve Hangover

Hangover Cures: Ways To Prevent, Cure Your New Year's Eve Hangover

  Hangovers suck. Sadly, when the bubbly is overflowing and you’re in the company of friends and raucous strangers it’s easy to have another glass or three. We’ve rounded up a few ways to prevent that nasty New Year’s Day hangover and tips for getting back on your feet if you end up feeling like a dozen tiny [...]

The Effects Of Alcohol In The Body (INFOGRAPHIC)

The Effects Of Alcohol In The Body

  Most of us know that drinking too much can lead to car accidents, addictions or worse. We know drinking a little can make us giggly or weepy, lose our balance or lose our lunch, feel ravenously hungry the morning after or want nothing more than to be still in a dark room until that terrible pounding subsides. But few [...]

Allergies, Extra Weight Tied to Bullying

Allergies, Extra Weight Tied to Bullying

  NEW YORK  (Reuters Health) – Kids who have food allergies or are overweight may be especially likely to get bullied by their peers, two new studies suggest. Not surprisingly, researchers also found targets of bullying were more distressed and anxious and had a worse quality of life, in general, than those who weren’t picked [...]

Lilly Likens Alzheimer’s Race to 1920s Insulin Quest

Eli Lilly's research chief Dr. Jan Lundberg Ph.D is shown in this undated handout photo supplied by Lilly December 7, 2012. Just as the Indianapolis company made history in the 1920s by producing the first insulin, Lundberg said Lilly feels confident its efforts against Alzheimer's will succeed and make an equally impressive mark. Credit: Reuters/Eli Lilly/Handout

  (Reuters) – Drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co is confident it will do for Alzheimer’s patients what it did almost a century ago for diabetics – find a breakthrough treatment, even though skeptics say it could take years. “We are on the cusp here of writing medical history again as a company, this time in [...]

Bee Therapy (VIDEO)

Bee Therapy

  Can bee stings cure arthritis or MS? Meet some people in Taiwan willing to endure hundreds of bee stings to cure what ails them. Source: Youtube/ NationalGeographic


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