Tag Archives : Conditions and Diseases

Elderly people who consume fatty fish at least once a week may have a lower risk of severe vision loss caused by age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a new study suggests. The results, reported in the Ophthalmology journal, do not prove that the habit of eating fish reduces the risk of developing advanced stages of age-related macular degeneration. But [...]

A group of scientists leaded by Shafiq ur Réhman from the Umea University, Sweden, developed a coding system of facial expressions to help visually impaired to improve their way of communicating with other people. The new technology captures images with different facial expressions via webcam and turns them into vibratory patterns. Each time a user [...]

A variant of a gene for obesity that is in more than one third of the U.S. population also reduces brain volume, increasing the risk related to Alzheimer’s disease, U.S. researchers said. People with a specific variant of a gene called FTO (gene body mass and obesity) have brain deficits that make them more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease, [...]

People who are exposed to excess light from the computer screen should make a quick break every hour to relax the eye muscles. The practice may be effective against the development of photophobia. Photophobia is the name given to excessive sensitivity to artificial light and sunlight. This sensitivity occurs when the photosensitive cells from the retina [...]

Before advocated as an important part of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, mouth to mouth affect the procedure and reduces the chances of survival of patients with heart failure. Studies show a survival rate three times higher in people subjected only to the continuous chest compressions until help arrives. Therefore, the Ilcor (International Alliance [...]

In the Urology field, recent studies with Botox are reaching good results for the patients’ treatment with prostatic hyperplasia (benign increase of the organ that can cause difficulty to urinate) that don’t answer well to the medication or that present important side effects. According to José Carlos Truzzi, urologist from Unifesp (Federal [...]

An Australian woman who claims to have developed mold in her lungs to have worked in a wet basement has said that her company said to her to cure her health problem with sex. The information was released this Tuesday by her lawyer. Regina Senger is suing her employer and the owner of the building where she worked after having developed an intense headache, [...]