Health

By Pat Hagan A gel that can help decayed teeth grow back in just weeks may mean an end to fillings. The gel, which is being developed by scientists in France, works by prompting cells in teeth to start multiplying. They then form healthy new tooth tissue that gradually replaces what has been lost...
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Day 22: heart begins to beat with the child’s own blood, often a different type than the mothers’.
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Video: Development of the Unborn Baby
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The following images were presented to Fr. Frank Pavone, at the time he was working at the Vatican, by a team of experts from Poland. The experts presented them also to Pope John Paul II. Baby hands at seven weeks.
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Indiana Planned Parenthood Caught On Tape Giving Fabricated Medical Information The youth-led pro-life group Live Action released a new undercover video today showing staff at an Indianapolis Planned Parenthood clinic using manipulative and medically inaccurate counseling to convince a young woman to have an abortion. This is the third undercover video Live Action has released...
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by Gary Wenk, Ph. D Obesity increases the risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease. Obesity shrinks critical brain regions and increases the risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease. Two recent studies have outlined the risk of being obese with regard to the health of the brain as we age. A gene called FTO (for Fat Mass and Obesity)...
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Morning people are more proactive – and therefore more successful in their professional lives — according to new research. By Courtney Rubin To paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, the morning people are different from you and me – or so says new research. Early birds are more proactive than evening people – and so they do well in business,...
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16 July 2010 by Linda Geddes IF YOU’RE feeling sleepy, it might be thanks to your astrocytes. This group of brain cells, long assumed to play a mere housekeeping role, may actually be responsible for controlling when we fall asleep, by releasing a chemical called adenosine. “One of the leading...
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byAndy Coghlan The death of a woman after she was treated with stem cells at a private clinic in Thailand has reinforced warnings for desperate sick people to avoid “stem-cell tourism” – the gamble of undergoing untested stem-cell treatments in unlicensed private clinics abroad. Post-mortem results reported this week reveal that the stem-cell treatment almost certainly...
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Exercising for Weight Loss, 20 to 30 minutes of aerobics is all it takes.
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