Health

Cure For Common Cold Is On Its Way
by eNotAlone.com
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Maryland and the J. Craig Venter Institute say that they got closer to one of medicine's elusive goals - finding a cure for the common cold, known as rhinovirus.

Healthy Lifestyle Choices Help Avoid Plastic And Cosmetic Surgery
by eNotAlone.com
Wrinkles of aging are not due to genetics only but also to stressful environmental factors, such as divorce, abnormal weight loss, use of antidepressants and personal lifestyle choices, such as smoking, sun exposure and eating, reports a new study.

Plastic Surgery Numbers On The Rise
by eNotAlone.com
Data from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) showed a dramatic increase in the number of people undergoing plastic and cosmetic surgeries, compared with previous years.

Kidney Donors Live A Long And Normal Life
by eNotAlone.com
People who give the gift of life by donating a kidney not only lead long and healthy lives, but also have fewer kidney problems than the general population. "We've suspected all along that kidney donation is a safe practice, but there has never

U.S. Top-Rated Hospitals Prove Their Reputation
by eNotAlone.com
The top-rated hospitals of the United Stated have a 27 per cent lower death rate than other hospitals, according to a study by HealthGrades, an independent health care ratings organization.

Mercury In HFCS: Should We Stop Buying Our Favorite Food Products?
by eNotAlone.com
One of the latest discoveries by the scientists showed the presence of mercury in some commercial high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), an ingredient used in many popular processed foods. HFCS is being used as a sweetener replacing sugar in such popular items

Cleaner The Air - More Years To Live
by eNotAlone.com
A new federally funded research found that reducing air pollution can prolong a person's average life by five months. The results were based on a study of urban residents in 51 of U.S. metro areas, and more than 200 other countries

What Do We Need To Know About Drinking Water
by eNotAlone.com
Water is vital for our bodies. Without it, nobody could survive more than a few days. Our body is estimated to be about 60 to 70 per cent water. Blood is mostly water, and our muscles, lungs, and brain all contain a lot of water as well.

U.S. Healthcare To Be Reformed
by eNotAlone.com
Yesterday, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle testified in his confirmation hearing for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Mr. Daschle said if confirmed by the Senate he will work to make health care more affordable for more Americans.

Confessions of Real-Life Forensic Pathologist
How Not to Die: Surprising Lessons from America's Favorite Medical Examiner
by Jan Garavaglia,M.D.
Thousands of people make an early exit each year and arrive on medical examiner Jan Garavaglia's table. What is particularly sad about this is that many of these deaths could easily have been prevented. Although Dr. Garavaglia, or Dr. G, as she's known

Non-Local Consciousness and the Revolution In Medicine
Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World
by Dawson Church, Geralyn Gendreau
Healing Our Planet, Healing Ourselves is an ambitious collection of powerful ideas from some of the most advanced thinkers of our generation. In a series of interwoven essays and interviews, it explores the link between our individual wellness

Part 1
The Thyroid Solution: A Mind-Body Program for Beating Depression and Regaining Your Emotional and Physical Health
by Ridha Arem, M.D.
It's sometimes called a hidden epidemic: One in ten Americans - more than twenty million people, most of them women - has a thyroid disorder. At any given time, millions of people have an undiagnosed thyroid disorder and experience a chronic mental anguis

Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
by Francis M. Walters
To derive strength equal to the daily task; to experience the advantages of health and avoid the pain, inconvenience, and danger of disease; to live out contentedly and usefully the natural span of life: these are problems that concern all people.

American Woman's Home
by Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe
If the parents of a family should daily withhold from their children a large portion of food needful to growth and health and every night should administer to each a small dose of poison, it would be called murder of the most hideous character.

Hygienic Physiology: with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
by Joel Dorman Steele, Ph.D.
Bones differ in form according to the uses they sub serve. For convenience in walking, some are long; for strength and compactness, some are short and thick; for covering a cavity, some are flat; and for special purposes, some are irregular.

The Evolution of Modern Medicine
by William Osler
This work, composed originally for a lay audience and for popular consumption, will be to the aspiring medical student and the hardworking practitioner a lift into the blue, an inspiring vista or 'Pisgah-sight' of the evolution of medicine

How to Eat: A Cure for Nerves
by Thomas C. Hinkle
A very sad thing about some nervous people is the fact that in their lives there are domestic or other troubles which no physician can overcome. Some of them live in depressing surroundings, but for all these there is hope.

Freedom Talks No. II
by Julia Seton, M.D.
Ever since the birth of the human race there have been health and disease. Everywhere we find those who live at levels of comprehension that cannot express in flesh the perfect power of the word and these must by natural law take on the form

Papers on Health
by John Kirk
In this book we set forth a series of simple remedies and preventives of many common troubles. They are all well tried and have been proved by long experience to be effective and safe. We give, as far as we know, the reasons why they are likely to do well

Find the Fire
Why Good Things Happen to Good People: The Exciting New Research that Proves the Link Between Doing Good and Living a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life
by Stephen Post, Ph.D., Jill Neimark
A longer life. A happier life. A healthier life. Above all, a life that matters - so that when you leave this world, you'll have changed it for the better. If science said you could have all this just by altering one behavior, would you?