If you have tired eyes, then you can now rejuvenate them with a new innovation. It’s been a long time coming, but for many people who felt their life chances and employment prospects were being affected by having eyes that make them look old, it couldn’t have come sooner. There is only one thing. The […]
Researchers in the USA have found that the personal expenditure on eye medication, in particular for diseases such as Glaucoma, is on the rise. Apparently, in 2001 people spent an average of $445 (about £380), whereas by 2006 this had risen dramatically to $557 (about £490). This amounts to a staggering 25% increase in just […]
Of their own making, it seems. Apparently a bill in the US created by an Illinois senator who died in 2007, was supposed to block funding, which would have been spent on the treatment of women requiring abortions. However it now appears this very same legislation is now inadvertently aiding abortions after all. The bill […]
The music star, Jennifer Hudson, has signed a deal with Dutton Publishers, an offshoot of Penguin to write her memoirs about her struggle with weight. The well known singer and actress is known to have recently lost 80 pounds, but says she has always struggled with a weight problem. She decided to write the book, […]
With all the arguments going on in Britain about the NHS, it is perhaps worth pausing a little to see how health insurance in one US state is affecting its citizens. Apparently in Connecticut, the price of health insurance has doubled for ordinary working people in the past decade. Often in America, the cost of […]
Well known Manchester United football player Wayne Rooney, announced the other day that he has had a hair transplant. He told his followers on Twitter that he was fed up with going bald, particularly since he was only 25. He also said that he was delighted with the treatment. He told his followers: “Just to […]
It’s been suggested that a cosmetic surgery operation on a Thai athlete was the cause for the sports person’s brain inflammation. The athlete who was a member of the Thailand national team had an operation on her nose, but unfortunately she did not wake up from the anaesthetic for quite some time. She was taken […]
Dentists from the Indian town of Udheywala recently held a dental camp for children from the local Home for the Handicapped. Sixty children attended the camp where they were treated for free. All the children had the opportunity to get a check up for a wide variety of potential oral problems including tooth decay, cavities, […]
There are a range of conditions that cause hair loss, but one condition has baffled doctors. It seems a boy from Iowa in the USA went bald after pulling out his hair. The psychological disorder is called trichitillomania which forces sufferers to pull out their hair, which if severe enough can result in baldness. The […]
Scientists have found that gene variations involved in the control of cholesterol also affect progesterone levels in women. This new finding appears to suggest that it has an effect on how fertile a woman is. The scientists from John Hopkins University in the USA have created a blood test that examines the variation in the […]