The mere mention of the word Botox brings to mind fixed expressions on fading celebrity faces but not everyone who uses the cosmetic injections go to those extremes.  When used with discretion, Botox does an excellent job of making those…

At this week’s general session of the International Association of Dental Research in Miami, Florida, researchers from the University of Buffalo will describe their recent study which indicates excess mouth bacteria invites heart attack.  The study concludes that it isn’t…

Bullying is much more than kids just being kids.  For Eric Mohat, it was a matter of life and death.  His classmates taunted him unmercifully and school officials did little to stop it.  One day, Eric, 17, had apparently had…

When a nonprofit healthcare provider in Austin, Texas, ran a check on its patients’ emergency room (ER) visits between 2003 and 2008, they discovered a group of 9 patients who had amassed almost 2,700 ER visits in just the six…

Every day in the United States, an estimated 240 people are treated in emergency rooms for injuries caused by their pets.  Most of these injuries involve trips, slips, and falls and more dogs cause injuries than cats.  But don’t let…

Last year, on March 28, Jennifer Latham, 40, of Sanford, Florida, walked into a local hospital maternity ward, dressed like a nurse, took a one-day-old baby from his mother’s arms, and left the hospital with the baby concealed in a…

American kids are getting more medical conditions once common only in middle-aged adults and the American diet is thought to be largely to blame. The latest, typically adult, diagnosis making the rounds in pediatric wards across the nation is kidney…

University of Oxford researchers have just released the findings of a comparative study involving almost a million people. The research team used body mass index (BMI) as a means of measuring one’s health and it seems the more pounds one…

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have enlisted at least a dozen people to take part in the study of a vaccine against colon cancer. Still in the experimental stage of development, the vaccine is expected to block the growth…

There were more babies born in the United States in 2007 than were born in the busiest year of the World War II baby boom, leaving statisticians wondering if 2007 might be the beginning of a new baby boom. When…

The last few years have produced a rough ride for food safety in the United States and around the world.  Problems with imported foods and foods produced in and shipped across the United States have made headlines because of poisonous…

Baby Boomers using the ’senior moments’ excuse to explain away forgetfulness can stop being embarrassed about it.  New research from the University of Virginia says the brain actually begins declining at age 27.  We just might expect it more often…

Researchers in Florida, the Sunshine State surrounded by beaches, had announced that people swimming in subtropical waters face an increased risk by 37% of being exposed to the dangerous Staphylococcus (staph) bacteria, including the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).  Swimmers with…

The American public relies on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ensure nothing but the safest drugs are prescribed but the FDA relies on medical research scientists to provide the background data in order to approve or deny…