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How to Pinpoint Signs of Teen Steroid Use
The introduction of steroid use in the market affected more people in their teenage years. Truth is more US high schools are dealing with this tough situation right now. But one may not simply accuse the teenager that he is under steroid drugs with...
Easy Tips to Improve Progesterone Hormone Balance in Your Body
When a woman reaches the age of 52, one is said to be menopausal. But 5 to 15 years before this age, there are those who already show signs of menopause. This medical term is more popularly known as peri-menopause. Peri-menopause is a period in a w...
Tips for Swine Flu Protection to Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women
Pregnant women are in high risk of acquiring the swine flu virus. It is then necessary to give them proper protection from this condition. The protection must also extend up to the time that they will be breastfeeding their newborns. Protection fro...
Testosterone Levels: How Do They Change Over Time?
Just like women, men do encounter menopause. Male menopause transpires with the changes in men’s testosterone levels. These changes may be a result of aging, chronic illnesses, obesity, prescription drugs and smoking. Generally, though, there...
Substance Use Could Have a Negative Result for Couples
According to research the level of habitual alcohol abuse and smoling can have an effect on your relationship. While the relationship seems to do well if the level of use is similar if there is a major difference in the level you use versus that ...
First Really Effective Vaccine for AIDS Proves to be at Least Moderately Successful
New hope in the quest to treat and vaccinate against the AIDS virus has finally begun to look possible! An experimental vaccine that has been developed and is currently undergoing testing has shown at least moderate success in preventing the virus fr...
Phenergan is Required to Have a Strict Warning Label by the FDA
Phenergan (also known as promethazine), a drug intended for use as an intravenous anti-nausea drug has been required to have a strict safety warning placed on its label by Food and Drug Administration. What’s caused the FDA to act so strongly? ...
Should Breastfeeding Moms Avoid Alcohol?
Women are always advised to avoid alcohol when they are pregnant because anything they consume is also absorbed by their unborn babies. Alcohol has many known adverse effects on unborn infants. However, there is still the question of whether or not...
NFL Drug Testing Case Could Affect Other Sports
The NFL’s drug testing program may no longer be enforceable; thanks to a federal court ruling and they might not be the only U.S. sport that will be facing the backlash. The NFL, MLB, NHL and NBA have all begun programs in an effort to discipli...
From Adam to Ecstasy: How the Drug Known as MDMA Got Its Names
Ecstasy has been given many names throughout the decades. Before it became Ecstasy, it was known as MDMA, a by-product of the drugs manufactured by Merck to stop abnormal bleeding in the early 1900s. As early as then, scientists have already recogn...
Mosquitoes Carry Yet Another Serious Illness This Time From Africa
Chikungunya virus has spread from Africa since 2005 affecting regions of India, France and Italy and in some cases becoming fatal. This new mosquito borne virus is far worse than West Nile which sickens only about 1 out of every 10 who become infecte...
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds: A Drug Story
The song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” has long been the subject of debate among music experts and fans of the Beatles as to whether or not it is a reference for LSD. According to the official story, the song had nothing to do with LSD...
Drinking Young Could Affect Risk of Developing Alcoholism Through Genes
Drinking early has been found to have an effect on the genes related to alcoholism, increasing the likelihood of the subject developing a serious drinking problem later in life. Using twins, a researcher in Australia analyzed the affects of early dri...
Different Cholesterol Testing Methods
Cholesterol is an important building block of the body. The body needs it to perform certain functions. However, too much cholesterol in the body can lead to a number of serious ailments such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and Alzheimer’s...
Common Steroid Pills (Types & Side Effects & Symptoms of Use)
Steroids, known for their various street names, come in several types and can have several effects on the body. The steroid types the public would be most familiar with are the female sex hormones in birth control pills, the male sex hormones in and...
Vitamin B12 Deficiency: Prevention, Treatment and B12 Testing
Many people are not aware that they have Vitamin B12 deficiency. This lack of awareness can make preventing the condition difficult. The ones most at risk of this condition are the vegans, who opt not to have meat, eggs or dairy in their diet. It i...
Swine Flu Vaccine – Advantages and Disadvantages
One of the most awaited developments in the fight against the swine flu pandemic is the news that a swine flu vaccine will become available by September of 2009. Despite this groundbreaking news, however, surveys and studies have revealed that the p...
MRI could Help Detect Alzheimer’s Early
Alzheimer’s may cause the brain to become hyperactive in order to compensate for the effects of Alzheimer’s making it possible to detect the early signs of Alzheimer’s via MRI based on research by the Cleveland Clinic. Research was done on 69 m...
Can My Pets Get Sick of Swine Flu?
Is it possible for your pet dog or cat to get sick of the swine flu? That is a question that bothers many homeowners because pets are less discriminating than their owners regarding what they touch. They can attack anything out of mere curiosity wi...
Three Main Differences between Swine Flu and Bird Flu
This year’s swine flu pandemic has caused a lot of fear and worry among people across the world. And yet, some of the flu cases that were reported this year were caused not by the swine flu virus but by the bird flu virus. Such developments h...
Weighing in on the Risk of HPV Vaccine
Gardasil, a vaccine intended to combat the human papilloma virus or HPV which was released in 2006, has been facing closer scrutiny of late. The four strains of HPV the vaccine protects against are linked to the development of cervical cancers and ge...
Treatment Resistant Addicts May Find New Hope in Medical Heroin
A Canadian study’s findings may offer new hope to treatment resistant heroin addicts. According to this research long-term users who were treated with medical heroin were better able to stick to the treatment than those who relied on methadone. Rat...
A Non Smoking Workplace – Improving Lives and the Wallet
Smoking is definitely injurious to ones health. If you work in a non-smoking workplace it will definitely improve your life and also your wallet. Second hand smoke is as bad as having smoked a cigarette yourself. It’s a killer and if inhaled in a l...
California Workplace Smoking Restrictions
There are restrictions on smoking in the workplace in California. One of the primary restrictions is that an employer can permit smoking in the workplace either intentionally or knowingly. The various smoking laws that are place in the State of Calif...
Start Eliminating Smoking at the Work Place
If you want to eliminate smoking at the workplace you go to start NOW. You first need to chart out a strategy that will help you cut smoking from your workplace and thus also cut down on the health related costs. It must be a step-by-step procedure t...
Smokeless Tobacco Just as Toxic as Ever
New research has found at least 21 new carcinogens and toxins in smokeless tobacco. According to this research this means that a single pinch of the product equals just as much harmful exposure as five cigarettes, making the effects far worse for the...
Smoking in the Workplace – Will Cost Your Company Money
The fact that people smoke in your company workplace should be a cause of concern for you. The fact remains that smoking increases the costs to the company. The first reason being the loss of productivity of the people working in the company, and the...
Oral Sex Linked to Throat Cancer
A rise in HPV which can cause throat cancer if contracted during oral sex may be responsible for rising rates of the cancer. The dramatic rise in the virus over the course of the last two decades led the American Association for Cancer Research to ca...
Children – Primary Sufferers of Passive Smoking Related Conditions
It’s not just smoking that kills. Passive smoking kills as well, and the age group that is most affected by this are the children. Each year thousands of children are hospitalized with cases of asthma and other breathing related difficulties as a r...
Ireland Seeks to Evaluate Drug Problem in Prisons by Drug Testing
In a drug test of their Loughan House prison by the Irish Inspector of Prisons it was discovered that nearly half of the prisoners, 44 percent, tested positive for drug use, most commonly marijuana abuse. This is a troubling result for a prison envir...
