| FDA Approves Laser to Treat Baldness |
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FDA Approves Laser to Treat Baldness
FDA Approves Laser to Treat BaldnessDrawing this special comb over a balding pate could restore some real hair according to a Florida company. The Food and Drug Administration has cleared for sale a handheld laser device to promote hair growth. Called the Hairmax Lasercomb, it increases the numbers of thick hairs on the scalp, according to 26-week clinical trials conducted by its manufacturer, Lexington International LLC. As the device's name suggests, it combines a low-level laser with a comb. ...
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| Science Finds New Ways to Regrow Fingers |
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Science Finds New Ways to Regrow Fingers
Science Finds New Ways to Regrow FingersSounds Like Magic: Scientists Use Pig Bladders, Salamanders and Mice to Help Regrow FingersResearchers are trying to find ways to regrow fingers and someday, even limbs with tricks that sound like magic spells from a Harry Potter novel. There's the guy who sliced off a fingertip but grew it back, after he treated the wound with an extract of pig bladder. And the scientists who grow extra arms on salamanders. And the laboratory mice with the eerie ability t...
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| Women, heart disease and aspirin |
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Heart Disease, Women and aspirin
New heart guidelines urge women to exercise, cut fat, consider aspirin Nearly all American women are in danger of heart disease or stroke and should be more aggressive about lowering their risk -- including asking their doctors about daily aspirin use, the American Heart Association said Monday in new guidelines.It is the first time guidelines have urged all women to consider aspirin for preventing strokes, although specialists warn that it can cause ulcers and dangerous bleeding. They said...
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| Women's Risk of Heart Disease |
 | Women's Risk of Heart Disease
Association Releases Guidelines to Protect Women's Hearts"Doctors May Underestimate Women's Risk of Heart Disease Risk"Heart patient Susan Goodreds says the signs of her condition were relatively subtle at first. "I would just feel a fist-sized tightness in the middle of my chest, but it wasn't painful," she says in an interview with ABC News medical correspondent John McKenzie for "World News." Still, her symptoms prompted her to consult with her physician. What doctors told her was that her he...
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| Child's trauma may affect parents' health |
 | Child's trauma may affect parents' health
Child's trauma may affect parents' healthThe stress of having a child go through a life-threatening event may have long-term health consequences for parents, a new study suggests.Researchers in the Netherlands found that parents of teenagers who'd been in a disastrous New Year's Eve fire were at increased risk of developing high blood pressure over the next four years.Past research has linked chronic stress to elevations in blood pressure, and it's certainly stressful for parents to help a child...
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| Doctors find clues to mystery dizziness |
 | Doctors find clues to dizziness
Doctors find clues to mystery dizzinessChronic dizziness that is not due to vertigo, a problem that has puzzled doctors for years, may have a variety of causes including anxiety disorders and brain injury, according to a study published Monday.Vertigo, a feeling of turning or whirling usually involving inner ear problems, is well recognized, according to the report from the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia.But so-called chronic nonspecific dizziness where victims also suf...
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| Teen Sex May Take Emotional Toll |
 | Teen Sex May Take Emotional Toll
Teen Sex May Take Emotional TollParents and health professionals should help teens prepare for and cope with the emotions attached to sex, say Sonya Brady, Ph.D., and Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, Ph.D. The two researchers work at the University of California, San Francisco. They studied a diverse group of 273 sexually active students at two California public schools between 2002 and 2004. The students, 56 percent of whom were girls, all reported having had vaginal and/or oral sex by spring of 10th gr...
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| Pollution Women Risk Heart Disease |
 | Pollution: Women's Risk Heart Disease
Study: Pollution Leaves Women at Greater Risk for Heart Disease, Death The most rigorous study of its kind to link pollution and heart disease has found that women who live in areas with higher levels of pollution are at much greater risk of developing and dying from cardiovascular disease, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. The study suggests women living in cities with the highest levels of air particles, such as Los Angeles, Atlanta and New York, were 76 percent more likel...
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| DCA: Cancer Breakthrough or Urban Legend? |
 | Cancer Breakthrough or Urban Legend?
DCA: Cancer Breakthrough or Urban Legend?Enthusiasm Outpacing Science in Possible Cancer Therapy DiscoveryThere is the medical equivalent of a tsunami wave building out there, only we don't know where this one is going to land.It is called DCA, and we at the American Cancer Society are suddenly receiving requests for information about something few if any of us had heard about as a cancer treatment until this past week. I suspect some of this rapid explosion is fueled in part by the Internet and...
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| Experts Blame Labeling for Child Suicides |
 | Blame Labeling for Child Suicides
Some Experts Blame FDA Labeling for Child Suicide IncreaseChild and teen suicide rates rose for the first time in more than a decade in 2004 ...
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| Predicting Breast Cancer's Return |
 | Predicting Breast Cancer's Return
Predicting Breast Cancer's ReturnTuesday's announcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that it had approved the MammaPrint test represents a step forward in our efforts to more precisely define which women with breast cancer require adjuvant (preventive) chemotherapy following primary treatment for the disease. Adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer has been one of the great success stories in cancer treatment over the past 30 years. Through the efforts of many researchers, women and...
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| Be Thinner, Healthier, More Productive: Go to Bed |
 | Be Thinner, Healthier, More Productive: Go to Bed...
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| Could Drug Ads Be Bad for Your Health? |
 | Could Drug Ads Be Bad for Your Health?...
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Home Fire Prevention |
Home Fire Prevention Tips
Fireman Stan shares his tips to help make your home more fire safe. To view thismovie Home Fire Prevention Tips , click here.
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The Science of Love |
The Science of Love
Learn a bit about the science of love--neuro transmitters and love maps--and how these influence attraction and relationships.To seethis movie The Science of Love, click here.
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Moore In Health Care |
Film maker Micahel Moore Talking about Single Payer Universal health care.
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Healthy vs Health Foods |
Do you know how to read food labels? Maybe you THOUGHT you did. Truth is, you probably don't. But Jeff Novick of the Pritikin Center does, and in his full talk he shows the 3 easy steps you MUST ... To see Health Food vs. Healthy Food -- How to read labels, click here.
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Single Payer Health Ins |
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Why and How of Single Pay Health Inurnace
A must see. If you are concerned about where medicine and your health care are going, you should see and listen to this short video. To see this video “What Is Single-Payer?”, click here
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We Become Silent |
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We Become Silent
International award-winning filmmaker
Kevin P. Miller of Well TV wrote and produced this documentary
about the threat to medical freedom of choice. 'We Become Silent: The
Last Days of Health Freedom' details the ongoing attempts by
multinational pharmaceutical interests and giant food companiesto prevent your from purchasingor using vitamin-mineral supplements.It is narrated by Dame Judith Dench.
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Charlie Rose |
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The panel discusses the rise in obesity in the US, along with its accompanying health concerns, such as type 2 diabetes. A number of obesity experts voice their opinions on the best measures to prevent further weight increases and to treat the existing health concerns. To see Charlie Rose, click here.
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Meditation and Yoga |
Meditation and Yoga
for Stress and Emotional Health
Peter Van Houten MD
Learn the science and techniques to gently and easily make lasting, positive changes necessary for emotional well-being through yoga and meditation with Peter Van Houten, MD, co-author of the Yoga Therapy book series. To see Meditation and Yoga, click here.
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Corporate Wellness |
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This is the 1st episode of the Wellness TV Show featuring leaders in the Health/Wellness & Fitness field from L&T Health & Fitness, Allison Flatley and Gail Fast. A must watch! To see this video, Corparate Wellness Concepts , click here.
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