Health A-Z

Most people are well aware that it is essential to cover up with sun cream during the summer months. But, more often than not, some people neglect to take care of their eyes which are subject to their own obstacles. Here are 3 tips which you can use to ensure that your eyes are protected. Protect...

Besides your post-workout meal, breakfast is probably the most important meal of your day and there are a number of foods that you can eat which will help to boost your testosterone levels. Five of these testosterone-boosting foods are listed here. TESTOSTERONE BOOSTER #1 : ORGANIC FREE RANGE EGGS Organic free range eggs contain vitamin D...

Levels of testosterone begin to slip naturally when an individual hits the ripe young age of 30. Testosterone, the hormone which helps males to maintain their virility and vitality, drops by about 1% per year after this age. When this happens, a person notices a noticeable loss of energy, decreased libido, irritation, anger, and...

Alzheimer's disease is a condition which progresses slowly over the years and, as a result, the symptoms are often confused with other conditions such as old age. It is not possible to predict the rate at which symptoms will progress as it is different for each individual person but if the symptoms are observed to...

Type 2 diabetes affects approximately 3.5 million people in the UK and some 30 million people in the USA. It's thought to cost around £20bn per year in the UK and almost $300bn in the USA in direct and indirect costs - an incredible amount of money when one considers that the condition is...

Researchers at the University of Salento in Italy have discovered a platinum-based drug that has shown to be more effective in reducing the growth of the most aggressive type of mesothelioma cancer cells, sarcomatoid malignant pleural mesothelioma, than cisplatin, the drug which is currently most widely used. The drug, Ptac2S was shown in the study...

Fruits, vegetables, and other edible plants such as onions, grapes, and certain types of cucumber have often been praised for the nutrients they contain which have been shown to prevent cancer from developing. And now researchers are looking at broccoli to find out if it can be effective in improving the benefits of cisplatin...

The main symptoms of mesolthelioma are: feeling out of breath chest pain coughing The symptoms may take years to manifest themselves and the condition is usually very slow to appear. The speed at which it progresses will depend on the type of mesothelioma. Epithelioid mesothelioma is the slowest to progress and usually responds the best...

Bayer's antibody-drug conjulate (ADC) anetumab ravtansine has failed to show improvements in the survival rates of mesothelioma patients. Stock prices of Bayer's collaborators ImmunoGen and MorphoSys declined as the announcement was made. Malignant pleural mesothelioma is a rare cancer that affects more than 25,000 people around the world. Around 15,000 new cases are seen every...

Mesothelioma is a type of cancer which usually grows in the pleural membrane in the side of the chest. The chest contains two layers, the pleural space, which are both as thin as the skin of a balloon. The layers, known as the pluera or pleural membrane, line the outside of the lung (inner...