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Sleep: Getting a Good Night’s Worth
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

Like good nutrition and exercise, adequate sleep is part of a healthy lifestyle. Sleep deprivation is an unrecognized cause of many problems. 

What Can 30 minutes Exercise a Day do for You?
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

Investing 30 minutes a day in aerobic exercise such as walking, jogging, running, bicycling, or swimming can help you live healthier and longer.

Microwaving Food
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

Now, almost all the homes around the world have microwave ovens used for meal preparation or food re-heating. Microwave ovens are so popular because they cook food in an amazingly short time.

How to Keep Your Child Healthy
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

A sick child can make you miserable. Do what you can to keep your child healthy and help everyone to be happy!

Pesky Sniffles
(Health and Diseases)

The ever pesky sniffles, the cough that makes you sound like a dying pirate, the whole body aches as if you just rolled down some steep stairs, lethargy that glues you to your bed; all these are symptoms of the common cold. 

Immortal Cells
(Human Body)

All humans are made of the same organs, but we are all unique. One of the greatest features of humanity is each person’s individuality, and this can extend even to your cells. One such individual with cells like no other is Henrietta Lacks.

Autism Speaks
(Health and Diseases)

Autism is a general term for a group of complex disorders of brain development. These disorders are characterized, in varying degrees, by difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication, and repetitive behaviors. 

Stem Cells: The Future of Medicine
(Health and Diseases)

We often hear about the amazing potential of “stem cells”, and how they will revolutionize the human diseases treatment; allowing us to grow new organs, regenerate our bodies, and perhaps even remain youthful forever!

Medical Wastes
(Health and Diseases)

Waste generated by health care activities includes a broad range of materials; from used needles and syringes to soiled dressings, body parts, diagnostic samples, blood, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and radioactive materials.

Healing Currents
(Health and Diseases)

Everyone experiences pain at one point or another, usually we know that the pain eventually wears off, but what if it does not? Many people who have had injuries continue to suffer from pain, the kind that never goes away. 

Swine Flu makes a Comeback
(Health and Diseases)

It seems that with every winter comes a new type of Influenza that grips our nation with fear and confusion. 

Speech Sounds Recognition
(Human Body)

Have you ever thought how do our brains recognize voices and speech?

How to Talk to Your Doctor
(Health and Diseases)

When it comes to staying healthy or living with a medical condition, your doctor is one of the most valuable resources you have. 

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
(Health and Diseases)

The worst kinds of battles are the ones we fight against ourselves. Everybody is equipped with an immune system that defends the body against outer threats, such as viruses and bacteria.

Blue Zones
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

Can improving your lifestyle only add more years to your life? Or is it the social and physical environment in which people live that affect people’s life longevity?

Electronic Aspirin
(Health and Diseases)

Do you suffer from a daily headache? Have you tried ordinary types of aspirins? If it did not kill the pain and the pain grew stronger, the Electronic Aspirin is the solution.

World’s First Artificial Heart Transplanted Successfully
(Health and Diseases)

The wait could soon be over for hundreds of thousands of people on heart transplant waiting lists as the medical community celebrates the first successful implantation of an artificial heart into a 75-year-old patient in Paris, paving the way for many long term robotic substitutes.

Goodbye Wheelchair: It is the Exoskeleton Time
(Health and Diseases)

If you are a fan of the “Iron Man” comic books and movie series, you are probably fascinated with the powered, flight-capable suit of armor that fictional industrialist Tony Stark puts on when he goes out to battle evildoers. Would not it be great to have one of those around?

Placebo Effect
(Health and Diseases)

Feed a sick man a dummy pill that he thinks will cure him, and often his health will improve in a similar way to someone taking real drugs. In other words, a bunch of nothing can improve your health.

The Threat of Antibiotic Resistance
(Health and Diseases)

More than eight decades ago, the discovery of antibiotics caused a revolution in the treatment of infections, transforming once deadly diseases that killed thousands every year into manageable health problems, treatable by a simple course of antibiotics.

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