Category: Health

The two groups at greatest risk for AIDS are homosexual or bisexual men and people who shoot drugs. People who use needles to inject drugs (including mainliners and skin poppers) get the virus by sharing their works with other users who already have the AIDS virus in their blood.
You can’t always tell who is [...]

Clinical studies, laboratory investigations and a number of surveys show certain personal characteristics and life-styles pointing to increased danger of heart attack (coronary heart disease). These danger signs are called “risk factors”. The well established risk factors are high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, cigarette smoking and diabetes mellitus. Other factors that [...]

With new research, new products and new skin protection advice popping up all the time, it is hard to figure out the best things to do to improve and protect your skin. A skin care program is the combination of skin care products and a routine that will be most beneficial to the skin. You [...]

Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that can almost always be attributed to asbestos exposure. Unfortunately, it is also a very hard type of cancer to treat and cure. Obviously, it affects the lungs and respiratory system.
If you or someone you love is diagnosed with this disease, the first thing you need to do is [...]

You should balance your activities with the proper amount of rest. Some of the leading experts in the field of aging now believe that regular exercise along with the proper amount of rest may actually add years to the life span. Results from a number of tests indicate that speed and muscular strength [...]

There has been a lot of discussion in the last few years about the continuing problem of alcohol and the effect it has on society. Should we treat alcohol as if it were an illicit drug?
Some of the promoters of harsh restrictions on the sale and marketing of certain alcoholic beverages (restrictions such as [...]

Three universal goals most of us share are: to live longer, to live free of illness and to control our weight. Interesting enough, normal walking lets us achieve all three. In fact, walking may be man’s best medicine for slowing the aging process. First, it works almost every muscle in the body, improving [...]

What is Social Security?
Social Security is a social insurance program that provides old-age benefits for retirees and their survivors, disability insurance for workers and survivor benefits for dependents. It is called an entitlement because congress has set eligibility criteria and if you meet the criteria, you are entitled to the benefits.
As social insurance, the [...]

“Alzheimer’s Disease” is the term used to describe a dementia disorder marked by certain brain changes, regardless of the age of onset. Alzheimer’s disease is not a normal part of aging – – and it is not something that inevitable happens in later life. Rather, it is one of the dementing disorders, a [...]

Lead has long been recognized as a harmful environmental pollutant. There are many ways in which humans are exposed to lead and most of the time we may not even be aware of it. Airborne lead enters the body when an individual breathes in lead particles or swallows some lead dust. Until [...]