If you are pregnant and munching on peanuts to boost your child’s health, watch out! As a new study shows, eating peanuts during pregnancy may actually make your child allergic to the nut. Recently, Scott Sicherer, a professor of Pediatrics of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City conducted a survey with five colleagues. Sicherer and his team studied over 500 infants aged between 3 and 15 months. The infants were most probably allergic to milk or eggs but not nuts. Most of them had not even tried eating peanuts. Over 25% of these infants showed strong allergy to peanuts. The children whose mothers had consumed peanuts during...

For men, there can be nothing more depressive than finding out that they have prostate cancer.  A surgery to remove a cancerous prostate gland usually means losing the ability to have an erection, as it damages the nerve that runs along the prostate. In such a critical situation, the possibility to stop the cancer from growing seems like a miracle in itself.  Scientists published a new discovery in a medical journal called FASEB, which explains how red wine and green tea can hinder prostate cancer growth significantly. This finding is considered very important as the knowledge that the compounds in these drinks can actually stop pr...

Detect Cancer Even Before It Begins Do you think you will have cancer after four or five years? A question that could have drawn a blank just a few days earlier can be answered in the positive today. All thanks to a ground-breaking blood test that is expected to help with cancer detection as early as five years before the disease surfaces, which is a feat not accomplished through either CT scans or mammograms. This new technique, which can pick up early warnings of many types of cancers from the immune system, before they even begin, has been developed by Oncimmune Ltd, a diagnostic company affiliated to the University of Nottingham...

Shocking but true – more than 40 infant and children’s medicines produced by Johnson & Johnson were recalled. FDA officials confirmed significant violations in manufacturing regulations by drug maker McNeil, a division of Johnson & Johnson.  The severity of this issue can be understood by the fact that the case has been referred to FDA crime branch. In January, McNeil recalled several containers of children’s drugs, including over-the-counter drugs after they received complaints of an “unusual” smell that made them feel sick. The category of recalled drugs include: Tylenol Infants’ Drops Children’s Tyl...

When it comes to chocolates we all surely love them. There are also plenty of chocolate addicts out there who need an everydose of chocolate. For all such people, there is amazing news because a little bit of chocolate every day can reduce the risk of a terrible heart attack by almost 40%. Some German researchers made it a point to properly follow around almost 20,000 people who were sent out an entire range of questions so that it would be entirely easier for them to keep tab of their diet procedures and more. The good finding was that anyone who consumes a chocolate bar each day or at least six grams of chocolate had a much lesser ...

Recent reports seem to explain some of the preconceived notion that people have about breast feeding. Usually it is considered that black American women have a much lesser chance of feeding their kids in comparison to the white women. Of all the black infants born in 2006 almost 60% were not breast-fed at all. This in contrast to the 77% of white infants who examined the Hispanic, Asian and white women about intentions of breast feeding among them. There was definitely some kind of a difference between the black women and the women from other races when it came to the notion of breast feeding. In fact black women felt comfortable ...

The study says, Men are more likely to have sex and enjoy their sex than women. The new scientific research, said that people who stay active and healthy can enjoy having longer sex lives. We can have a glance by going through some of the research analysis given by University of Chicago Academics published on Wednesday, “coming across all age group members, men are likely to be interested in having sex than women-and that too the gap increased with age.” The analysis shows, 39 percent of men at the age of 75 to 85 are interested in having sex while comparing to women having just 17 percent of interest in having sex. Person who are a...

The US Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of the regard – an implanted hearing system used to treat sensible to severe sensorineural hearing loss. It is a kind of permanent hearing loss and it is mostly caused by genetic factors. Or it may cause due to the damage of inner ear resulting from noise, viral infections and aging. The result is disability in understanding the speech. The esteem system consists of external testing and programming instruments. And also there are three implantable components namely a sound processor, sensor and driver. The consent of Esteem provides patients with an option to lessen thei...

Blood vessel works fast get back after smokers leave the habit. According to a new research, leaving the smoking habit will lead to a reduced risk of heart disease and heart attack. This research included more than 1500 people taking part in the medical test to help them give up smoking. Before and one year after the participants stopped smoking. Doctors used high frequency sound to determine the patient’s flow-medicated dilation, a measure of the health of the brachial artery. It is the main artery of the upper arm. If it is able to relax the brachial artery, it is a related ability to relax the heart arteries.  According to The uni...