Doctors Afraid of Hackers When Sending Email Advice
	Although we all know that an online consultation may not be such a great idea in case of a serious illness, most patients would do it if their doctors agreed. Unfortunately, the majority of doctors avoid providing email advice because of hackers, The Detroit News today informs. ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2008, 06:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

World's Hot Spots of Longevity
	At the moment, the American life expectancy is of 77.8 years, but the number is expected to plummet due to the current obesity pandemics. However, there are zones on our planet where people live like in fairy tales, holding the secret of eternal youth. Dan Buettner has been tracking down world's centenarian hot spots ("blue zones") for several years, and the results of his investigations are found in the book "The Blue ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Women Sleep More Than Men
	She sleeps more but she falls asleep with more difficulty. A new report released by the The Statistics Canada has found that men sleep an average of 8 hours and 7 minutes per night, compared to 8 hours and 18 minutes in the case of women. But while 25% of the men face trouble when becoming asleep, the number goes up to 35% in the case of women. In the case of men and women with full-time employment, the discrepancy in sleep t ... [read more >>]
	23 April 2008, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ozone Pollution Shortens People's Life
	Up into the stratosphere, the ozone layer protects life on Earth by reflecting harmful UV light. But in the troposphere (lower atmosphere), another ozone story takes place. Short-term exposure to current ozone concentrations seems to kill people earlier, as signaled by a new National Research Council report. Ozone is one of the main components of smog and can provoke respiratory issues and other health problems. There has al ... [read more >>]
	23 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Figs Are Good for Your Health
	The common fig (Ficus carica) is one of the oldest trees cultivated by humans and mentioned even in the Bible. It is a rather small tree, up to 10 m (33 ft) tall and ramified from its base. The crown is large and with relatively few branches. The green hairy buds contain milky and sticky latex. The leaves are large, with toothed edges, and 3-5 deeply crested lobes, hairy on the lower side. The flowers are small and numerous. ... [read more >>]
	23 April 2008, 10:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Sun Can Be Good for Your Health
	Even the prehistoric people knew that the Sun was the driving force of life on Earth. Our star can heal and destroy, depending on how we use it. Advantages The sunlight kills microbes and confers to the skin a bright, healthy look and increased elasticity. A moderately tanned skin is more resistant to infections and sun burning than an untanned one. Many skin diseases (dermatitis) can be kept in check ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 09:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vitamins Shorten Your Life
	You pump thousands of vitamin pills into your body in order to live longer but, in fact, this only brings you one step closer to the verge of the grave. This is what the results of a meta-analysis of 67 studies made on 230,000 people are telling us. The study revealed not only that vitamin C does not have an apparent positive or negative effects on warding off cold, but also that vitamins A and E, taken for improving bone stre ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 04:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Way Anorexia Impacts the Others
	Anorexia is not all about food. More than an eating disease, this is a mind problem with deep impact upon the people around. A new study, whose results were published in the new book 'Inside Anorexia: The experiences of girls and their families', and carried out by a team at the University of Western Sydney, reveals the long term impact of anorexia nervosa on the physical, social, and psychological well-being of the who ... [read more >>]
	09 April 2008, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Battle of the Sexes in the Womb: Boys Seem to Be the Winners
	It is said that boys are born with a weaker health condition than girls, but in a battle of the sexes inside the womb, they seem to be the winners, as revealed by a research made at the Tel Aviv University and published in the journal "Pediatrics." It appears that a male twin can affect the health of his twin sister even when still inside the uterus. The team focused on the rate of complications, like respiratory di ... [read more >>]
	08 April 2008, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Impact of Physical and Sexual Abuse on Women
	The physical trauma inflicted to women by their husbands goes far beyond the momentary contusions and bruised eyes. The new study made by a team of the World Health Organization (WHO), led by Claudia Garcia-Moreno and published in the journal The Lancet, relies on data about domestic violence collected from 10 countries (Brazil, Peru, Bangladesh, Japan, Namibia, Samoa, Serbia, Montenegro, Ethiopia and Tanzania). It shows that reg ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Over 2 Million Children Worldwide are HIV Infected
	The data are gruesome. About 4 million people got infected with HIV in 2006 and another 3 million died of it. Until now, about 25 million people have died of AIDS and other 40 million people are infected with HIV worldwide, most of them in the Sub-Saharan Africa. A new report made by World Health Organization, UNICEF and UNAIDS shows that more than 2 million children worldwide were HIV positive in 2007. Most of them received t ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2008, 10:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Alcohol Consumption Prolongs Your Life
	Total abstinence does not seem to be the way to a long life. A new research published in the "American Journal of Medicine" shows that indeed drinkers prolong their lives and chase away the danger of heart disease. Those who began drinking in middle age were 38% less likely to undergo a heart attack or other severe heart issues, compared to abstainers, even when overweight, diabetes, high blood pressure and other heart risks wer ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 15:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Premature Births Mean Less Fertile Individuals
	Premature babies are considered those born before 37 weeks. Even if there are a lot of studies showing the short term effect on the health of the babies of the premature births, a new research investigating about 1.2 million births in Norway pointed the effect of a premature birth in the health of the adults. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows that premature babies have an increased ris ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does Your Computer Impact Your Health?
	Your life is made of web chatting, navigation, PC games and the list is endless. Some spend hours and even days without moving from the front of the computer; shower and food are skipped and only physiological needs force them for a few seconds out. But do you think that so much staring at a computer screen does not affect you? Here is just a part of the effect: the "computer vision syndrome" comprising tired dry eyes, blurred vi ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2008, 15:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

College Adds 7 Years to Your Life Span
	No doubt that people today won't die from each infection, and adding this to a higher life quality, it appears logical that life expectancy has raised worldwide. But a new study carried out at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard University, and published in the journal "Health Affairs," shows that some are more equal than others: those who finished a college live significantly longer than those who ended studying once hig ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2008, 06:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

This Girl Has 4 Fully Developed Kidneys!
	Anatomy books tell you that humans have one pair of kidneys. But reality can sometimes get you astounded. What may the sensation be when going to the hospital because of a stomach pain and they tell you you've got four kidneys? This is what happened to the British Laura Moon, 18: an ultrasound scan revealed she possess two pairs of normally developed kidneys. Such cases are extremely rare, while having three is more commo ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Baby Boys Can Ruin Women's Lives
	If the newborn is a boy, that's bad news for the mother: this has been associated with increased levels of severe post-natal depression (PND) and lowered quality of life than in the case of a newborn girl, as found by a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Nursing. The team led by Professor Claude de Tychey, from Universite Nancy 2, France, made these findings on a pool of 181 women, aged 19 to 40 (on average 29 ... [read more >>]
	15 February 2008, 05:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Chromotherapy: How Can Colors Impact Your Health?
	Light clearly influences human behavior. But the white light we see around is made of a ROY G. BIV spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet). Other colors are hues of these ones. Each color represents a radiation of a specific wavelength with different molecular effects. Chromotherapy attempts to balance the energy and the health of the organism using colors, both preventively and curatively. The colored ra ... [read more >>]
	04 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Health Has a Login Page, but That’s About It
	When I hear that something is due in early 2008, I check for it to see if it has arrived starting from January 1st and keep going until it will actually be there. Not the best of strategies, you might think, but it's effective. This time, blogoscoped.com beat me to it and found the login page where everything should start unfolding. ... [read more >>]
	24 January 2008, 05:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Couple Fights Cut by Half Your Death Risk!
	Now we know why the life with your partner is a continuous hell: because this way you will live longer! Couple fights could boost your health, while suppressing anger brings an early death. "Researchers looked at 192 couples over 17 years and placed the couples into one of four categories: both partners communicate their anger; in the second and third groups one spouse expresses while the other suppresses; and both the h ... [read more >>]
	24 January 2008, 04:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Who Do Women Trust? Friends and Family, or the Internet?
	One of the most embarrassing things to admit in front of a stranger is anything related to health. Even if he/she is paid to listen and to give advice, being shy about certain areas of the body or about the medical history is pretty common between both men and women alike. What set the two genders apart was who they turned to when their misconceptions prevented them from seeing a health specialist: men mostly tried to "walk it off&quo ... [read more >>]
	23 January 2008, 07:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Can Your Mattress Kill You?
	We used to sleep on bed mattresses made of more or less natural untreated stuff. But now, they tell you that you ain't cool, man, if you do not have a visco-elastic polyurethane foam (also called memory foam) mattress. They say this is the technological revolution in your bed, the Star Trek dream in your bedroom and the idea of the rigid mattresses is just a prejudice. It is being strongly advertised that the memory foam will remove y ... [read more >>]
	22 January 2008, 04:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does the Wireless Technology Impact Your Health?
	We are obsessed with the wireless technology. We would like to stay in bed 24/24, 7/7, just to lazily push some buttons and all the information and needs to be provided to us. But a new National Research Council report, carried out at the University of Colorado at Boulder, warns that more research is required to assess the health effects of exposure to radio frequencies employed by the wireless devices, like cell phones, laptops and hand-h ... [read more >>]
	21 January 2008, 04:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Involuntary Job Loss Connected to Severe Health Decline
	As if one problem is not enough, it seems to attract others as well. A new research shows that employees losing their jobs due to health issues can experience further increased depression and health deterioration than those losing their jobs due to non-health issues. It also appears that those finding quickly a new job have improved health outcomes, compared to those remaining unemployed for a longer period. "It's not clear ... [read more >>]
	21 January 2008, 03:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Sexiest Legs: 5% Longer than Average
	Long legs are considered to add a note of sexiness to a person's look. And if you thought than only men have an obsession with this issue regarding women, you are wrong: women too assess how sexy a man is, based on this. A new research discovered that taller people are more physically attractive to the opposite sex, and legs that are 5 % longer than average are considered the sexiest in both genders. "There are good evolutio ... [read more >>]
	19 January 2008, 05:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Eat Dirt for a Better Health!
	Chimps are not quite gentle when eating. And besides being messy during the dinner time, they even engulf dirt while doing this. It may seem fulsome, but our closest living relatives are not stupid: eating soil appears to improve their health and their ability to fight infections. This is the result of a new research published in the journal "Naturwissenschaften". The research team led by Sabrina Krief, of the Muséum National ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 04:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Is the Dark Chocolate Really Healthy?
	What they told you when you were a child that chocolate destroys your teeth and makes you fat has got an odd twist: many researches are coming with an avalanche of good effects chocolate has on your health. That's why many do not bother finding an excuse for tucking in chocolate, especially if dark. And with the Christmas and the New Year... But these researches are made in fact on cocoa, and how many chocolates do really contain 6 ... [read more >>]
	28 December 2007, 03:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

High Blood Pressure Also Threatens Computer's Security
	OK, I get it, Christmas is one of those times of the year when all sorts of infections rise up and become extremely dangerous for every unpatched system. There have been so many security reports that it makes me think no one is safe these days. But, let's see one more threat which seems to be placed among the most important ones. BKDR_HUPIGON.MER is that kind of backdoor that attempts to open a port and wait for commands sen ... [read more >>]
	27 December 2007, 05:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

7 Medical Myths Busted
	Today a research says celery is good for potency, tomorrow will come others to say the contrary, after that another research says that goat milk will grow the boobs of your girl, to find from another study one year later that's not true. But some studies have turned into real urban hard-like-stone beliefs, like the necessity to drink 8 glasses of water daily, while reading in dim light causes you eye conditions. Most res ... [read more >>]
	21 December 2007, 10:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

11 Tips For Avoiding Kids' Accidents
	Annually, one in 8 children reach the hospital following an accident, which occurred mainly inside the house. An infant can easy fall from the table where its dippers are changed or choke with food or small objects that got stuck in the throat. Toddlers often fall while climbing over all places or get burned or poisoned while tasting everything they grab. The main cause of death in the case of 3-7 years old age children are circulation acc ... [read more >>]
	20 December 2007, 07:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

More Flexible Workplace Means Healthier Employees
	Which is the way to get the best from the employees? Tough programs won't work; it seems that it is rather about workplace flexibility and if this is perceived as real by the employees, whose lifestyles and health will improve in this case, as shown by a new study carried on by Dr. Joseph G. Grzywacz, of Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and published in "The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine". In t ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 04:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

8 Facts About Death and Long Life
	1.Today, there are over 200,000 centennial (aged over 100) persons. 66 are over 110, turning into supercentennial individuals. These have certifying papers, but their number could be up to about 450. 2.A quarter of the deaths around young Americans, aged 15 to 24, are caused by fire guns. In 1990, this translated to 4,200 cases (in homicides, suicides, and accidents). Only car accidents kill more young people. 3.Annually in France ... [read more >>]
	05 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 3 Eating Disorders
	There's nothing wrong in wishing to look good. But we must remember that how we look is a combination of genes, physical activity and food. However, for millions of people, food is not the pleasant activity it should be. In fact, it determines several mentally-linked conditions. 1.Anorexia. No matter how thin he/she is, the one suffering from this disease considers himself/herself obese when looking in the mirror. Anorex ... [read more >>]
	01 December 2007, 02:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

10 Minutes Of Staring at Boobs Daily Prolongs Man's Life by 5 Years...
	Listen, guys, now we know why Pamela Anderson made her transplants: to make us healthier. "Angels of mercy" like Jordan just prolong our life and Hugh Hefner knows it. A German research published in New England Journal of Medicine and Weekly World News said that men staring at women's breasts in fact prolong their lives with years. "Just 10 minutes of staring at the charms of a well-endowed female such ... [read more >>]
	30 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Physical Beauty Does Not Betray Overall Health
	Physical beauty is something connected to your genes. Researches linked it to body shape, facial proportions and symmetry. Estrogen (female sex hormone) load has been linked to feminine face and body ratios. Women with waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) around 0.7 (0.67-1.18) are most desirable to men, while a 0.8 to 1.0 WHR in men is attractive to women. Fat storing in the body is under sex hormones' control and the proper levels o ... [read more >>]
	30 November 2007, 13:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does Tobacco Affect Your Health?
	Annually, 4 million people die because of diseases caused by tobacco smoking, one person every 8 seconds. Tobacco smoking is the main cause of diseases worldwide. If the current tendency is maintained, by 2020 smoking will kill more persons than AIDS, tuberculosis, maternal mortality, car accidents, suicides and murder do. Still, one third of the adults worldwide smoke. In the whole world, 5 thousand billion cigarettes are sold annuall ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 02:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Should We Have Sex? 20 Good Healthy Reasons
	Marvin Gaye knew very well what was singing with his "Sexual healing". Sex seems to be more than a hormonal discharge and some short moments of pure pleasure. Scientists show that sex is extremely beneficial for our health, while the lack of an active sex life might have negative effects. And masturbation is not a solution: blood prolactin levels in males and females after orgasm is 4 times higher in both sexes compared with the ... [read more >>]
	24 November 2007, 06:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Effects of Drugs on Sex, Health and Social Life
	1. Causes of drug consume. There are over 200 million drug consumers worldwide. From "natural" to synthetic ("designer") drugs, they are aimed to induce an excitation and euphoria state; when we talk about stars, actors, famous singers, they usually go on with their addiction being pressured by the entourage (many singers and actors are famous for their drug consume). The media builds a magical aura around the drugs, an ... [read more >>]
	15 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 15 Effects That Coffee Has on Your Health
	Some are trying hard to show the beneficial effects that coffee has on our health, others see it as the devil’s beverage. Others say it’s rather a bogus. Read on and decide for yourself who’s right! 1. Some say that the energy boosting effect of the morning coffee is only in your mind and you should sleep more. The caffeine eases withdrawal symptoms accumulating overnight, but does not make people more alert. Only people who do not regu ... [read more >>]
	10 November 2007, 07:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Winning a Nobel Increases Lifespan!
	"The winner takes it all". Including the longer life. Scientists confirm it. A new research made at the University of Warwick in England investigated the cases of 524 nominees for the Nobel Prizes in physics and in chemistry between 1901 and 1950 and it revealed in the Research Papers in Economics that the 135 winners lived about 2 years more than the losers did. It seems that the social status spurs the health of t ... [read more >>]
	07 November 2007, 07:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Web Designed Routes for Running
	Ever wondered if you could combine the internet with some healthy practice? Not as in "I should lose some weight, let me just check some diets online. Cabbage? Carrots? Apples? What do they think I am, a rabbit? Err…NO! Bring forth the cheese cake!", but rather in "I really want to be doing something". If you did (and also if you didn’t, Google doesn’t really care …it just provides), there are sites especi ... [read more >>]
	31 October 2007, 11:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

13 Reasons Why Chocolate Is Good for Your Health and Sexuality
	Since you were a child you’ve been told that chocolate destroys your teeth and makes you fat; well, now, scientists in fact recommend chocolate as being even more efficient than many drugs in preventing and treating various conditions. On one condition, though: it must have as much cocoa as possible, even 60-75%. A chocolate's quality is determined by the properties of the cocoa seeds it’s made of, especially the amount of flavono ... [read more >>]
	17 October 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo Shyly Steps Into The Health Info Industry
	Yahoo and WebMD proudly announced today they have reached an agreement for a multi-year deal which would bring Yahoo's advertising platform straight on the WebMD websites. This network includes several names such as WebMD Health, MedicineNet, eMedicine Health and RxList. In case you didn't know, WebMD is one of the companies which are focused on the web health information which places Yahoo among the first that get invo ... [read more >>]
	17 October 2007, 13:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

High-Tech Health Phone Still Looks Cool
	Japanese mobile phones come in a diversity which is as great as people's personality, bringing solutions for all the issues they might have, even if not telecom related. A new handset will be introduced in NTT DoCoMo's lineup, along with its great ta ... [read more >>]
	04 October 2007, 05:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

10 Rules for ...Ecological Sex
	Do you want to save the planet? Do you want to lead a healthy life in a healthy environment? In this case, you must know that the way you have sex can ruin all these things. The answer: ecological sex! 1. Lights off! If all sex magazines tell you to do this, ecological sex rules recommend you to do quite the opposite. By decreasing the energy bill, you will also ‘work’ against global warming. Get rid of inhibitions by having sex in the ... [read more >>]
	20 September 2007, 15:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 14 Strangest Diseases
	1. Elephant people. Elephantiasis is a parasite disease caused by worms called filariasis, that block the lymphatic vessels. When the lymph vessels cannot be drained, the accumulated liquid induces changes into the surrounding tissues translated into grossly enlarged or swollen arms, legs, breasts and genitalia. There are three related nematode parasitic worms causing the disease: Wuchereria bancrofti (Africa and South America), Brugia mal ... [read more >>]
	15 September 2007, 13:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Can Obese People Be Healthy?
	A recent research has showed that skinny people can have a lot of visceral fat, the kind that is stored inside the abdomen, and which is the most dangerous, causing diabetes and other diseases. In 2005, Katherine M. Flegal, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, made a statistical analysis of national survey data on obesity to find an amazing result: mildly overweight adults had a decreased risk of dying, compa ... [read more >>]
	15 September 2007, 04:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 11 Healthy Food Turned Unhealthy
	Nutritionists promote a large array of basic food as the key to a strong health. So you think you eat good stuff and no wonder that you're surprised to experience various diseases, from cancer to diabetes, and so on. That's because on the way from the farm to the shelves of the supermarket, food experiences transformations made by manufacturers, that makes it cheaper, more attractive and ...extremely unhealthy. 1. Fish is pro ... [read more >>]
	08 September 2007, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

10 Reasons Why Sun Is Good for Our Health
	Even the Stone Age people knew the Sun brought life on Earth and that is why they used to worship it. But the sun waves can heal and destroy, they can be the kiss of life or death. It depends on the way we use them. 1. The sunlight kills microbes. That's why it is important to put out in the sun carpets, blankets and eiderdowns that cannot be washed regularly. Exposure to the sun confers the skin a bright, healthy look and increas ... [read more >>]
	01 September 2007, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 12 Most Frequent Issues That Kill Men
	Death comes a little bit differently if you're a man or a woman. Besides hormonal and anatomical causes, it’s the careless behavior of men what makes them live 7 years less than women. In the West, 70 % of men aged 30-50 are overweight and 40 % are too stressed. Race also counts: in the US, Blacks are more likely to die in an altercation or of HIV, Latinos in accidents, Native Americans of cirrhosis and other liver issues, while W ... [read more >>]
	17 August 2007, 15:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia