health

Sucking on someone's neck in the heat of passion might be hazardous to their health....

Why pay for costly gastric bypass surgery in hospital when you can get the tools delivered to your home? ...

Ear piercing is not normally something that is considered dangerous, but it can be, just ask 15-year-old Grace Etherington. Grace developed a rare auto-immune disorder called Guillain-Barré syndrome when her ear became infected after it had been pierced a few days earlier. The first indication that something was wrong...

In order to explore the significance of caloric-reduction as opposed to nutrition in weight-loss, Kansas State University human nutrition professor Mark Haub undertook an interesting challenge – he ate nothing but sugary snacks and Doritos for two months. He reported some interesting findings. For the two-month duration of his...

Here is a staggering statistic: in 2008 almost 6000 people died in cell phone-related accidents in the United States. Cell phone-related means that the people involved in the accidents were using their cell phones in some way while operating their vehicles. Whether they were text, calling, or just browsing...

Cristian Capatanescu succumbed to multiple organ failure on a Bucharest hospital bed awaiting surgery that would have helped him to lose weight – he was 54. At the time of his death the 184-centimeter-tall man weighed in at around 400 kilograms. Capatanescu’s weight made him the fattest man in...

An increase in jaw injuries has seen at least one Taiwanese dentist recommend that fast food chains to drop giant burgers from their menus. Professor Hsu Ming-Iung of the School of Dentistry at National Yang-Ming University told the China Post that patients had sore jaws and in some cases...

Ever been so tired that you just want to climb a tree and sleep? No? One poor bloke obviously did, and probably thought it was a good idea at the time. And he must have been really tired because he climbed a tree in the middle of the river at Petrie and...

Research undertaken at the University of Valencia has seen scientists arrive at a startling conclusion: beautiful women are bad for men’s health. The issue is to do with a hormone, namely cortisol, which is produced by the body under stressful conditions. One of those conditions, it seems, is being...