Thinning Hair can occur in humans because of various factors like age, weak hormone generation, weak protein content, improper diet etc. People who wish to prevent hair loss should understand the problem which caused the hair loss and take hair loss treatment properly. Age is an important factor which should be taken into consideration while […]
More Medicaid funding is needed for Tulsa County, the officials said.
Oklahoma County got about $711 million in funding in fiscal year 2008, compared with $510 million for Tulsa County, said in a report.
Tulsa officials want to know why there’s an imbalance between Tulsa County and Oklahoma County in the amount of Medicaid.
Tulsa leaders also point […]
The stress of providing care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s results in 25 percent of family caregivers having at least one emergency room or hospital visit every six months, says an Indiana University study.It’s long been recognized that family care of an Alzheimer’s patient is difficult, but the Indiana University […]
PARIS: President-elect Barack Obama may reverse the Bush Administration’s restrictions on stem cell research, which has been contentious in some European countries, too.
According to an article in the British medical journal The Lancet, physicians at four European universities have completed what they say is the first successful transplant of a human windpipe using a patient’s […]
A Colombian woman has received the world’s first tailor-made trachea transplant, grown by seeding a donor organ with her own stem cells to prevent her body rejecting it, an international research team reported on Wednesday.The success of the operation, performed in June using tissue generated from the woman’s own bone marrow, raises the prospect that […]
In the not-so-distant future, American seniors may turn to helpful, uncomplaining robots to fill the worrisome “care gap” that many face today.One of these autonomous devices, called the uBOT-5, is already capable of carrying out simple tasks while it monitors the home environment. The robot can even spot trouble — […]
For the first time, an expensive vaccine aimed at preventing cervical cancer in women has proven successful at preventing a disease in men, according to a new study.
The disease? It’s genital warts, a sexually-transmitted problem that is embarrassing and uncomfortable but not life-threatening.
Still, the results are expected to bolster a likely bid by the vaccine’s […]
Men and women who get heart transplants are more likely to die when the donor was of the opposite sex, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.The cause is not clear but could be due to size differences in the heart — men’s tend to be larger — or certain hormonal and immunological factors, according to researchers […]
Excess weight has become a problem for the modern generation. People are trying to find out methods which will reduce the fat accumulated in their body.
Hydroxycut has proved to be an effective supplement which will aid in weight loss, when taken along with diet. Most of the physicians’ advice to take this supplement along with […]
Ban on smoking in public came into effect on Thursday but not one challan was issued. However, it wasn’t quite Gandhigiri that prompted smokers to become law-abiding citizens on Thursday.
The fact that it was Bapu’s birth anniversary, a national holiday, saved the day for many as no one came looking for law-breakers. “Today is […]