Add to My Stories Marathons are ever popular with celebrities like chef Gordon Ramsay regularly taking part. But even healthy competitors could hurt their hearts Marathon runners who are not fully fit should take heed – they can cause damage to their heart that will take three months to repair, according to researchers.
A woman’s blood type could affect her fertility and influence her chances of getting pregnant, scientists have found A woman’s blood group could influence her chances of getting pregnant, scientists have found. Those with blood type O may struggle to conceive due to a lower egg count and poorer egg quality, while those with blood group A seem to be more fertile. More than 560 women with an average age of 35 undergoing fertility treatment took part in the research, led by experts from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and Yale University
UN delegates and advocates gathered last month in New York to assess progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). With just five years remaining to meet the goals, and maternal health (Goal 5) the furthest off-track, the MDG Summit was an important opportunity for those of us in the reproductive health field to come together and fight for women and families. Compared to the pre-summit hoopla, however, I am struck by the silence that has followed
Hypnotic Latin dancing? Fire-escape climbs? Inspirational spinning classes?
Infecting over 3,000 people and killing at least 250, a cholera outbreak is currently sweeping across Haiti, bringing a new wave of tragedy to a nation which, until now, had been slowly recovering from a massive earthquake earlier this year. Unfortunately, the cholera outbreak is only the latest in a line of infectious diseases to strike one of the world’s developing regions in recent years.
Add to My Stories In the right hands, medical lasers can have almost miraculous effects. They can erase unsightly thread veins and birthmarks, and treat the redness of the skin disease rosacea. These powerful beams of light even reduce scarring and stretch marks, and eliminate unwanted body hair.
Add to My Stories Competitive tiredness is a sport familiar to most couples. Men and women frequently disagree about who gets the most sleep, who finds it the least exhausting to tend to a crying child in the night and who has the most energy left for chores. Indeed, Arianna Huffington, a leading U.S
Lucy Atkins helps you choose from the bewildering array of health apps currently available The number of iPhone health apps, those handy tools you can download (often for free), is already bordering on intimidating. You can now diagnose your symptoms, track your calorie intake, get fit, monitor mood swings, quit smoking, meditate or seek spiritual guidance – all through the touch screen in your back pocket. Health apps range from the genuinely useful – type in a symptom, get a diagnosis – to the distinctly superfluous (do you really need to use your phone to monitor your partner’s contractions during labour?).
There are three degrees of burn – but depending on where they are, they could all be serious ? You have to see how much damage a burn has done before you can tell if it’s serious. Burns are classified according to how deep they go and how much of the body they’ve damaged.
A vaccine that primes the immune system to attack prostate cancer can extend the lives of men in the advanced stages of the disease, researchers say. Men who had the experimental vaccine lived on average 8 to 9 months longer than men who had inactive, placebo injections. What do we know already
An anti-abortion ad, to be shown to millions during American sports’ prime time, hinges upon a deliberate distortion On 7 February, the New Orleans Saints will make their first ever appearance in American football’s Super Bowl, traveling to Miami to face off against the Indianapolis Colts in a competition that’s as much about the commercials as the game itself. Also making an appearance for the first time will be an anti-abortion ad, paid for by the evangelical group Focus on the Family and featuring star college quarterback Tim Tebow , known for painting Bible quotations under his eyes during games.
Add to My Stories On trial: A pill to boost the body’s own production of insulin, potentially making jabs redundant A pill that can boost the body’s own insulin production could banish daily jabs for millions of people with diabetes. The drug is about to be tested on 155 British patients as part of a trial that could transform treatment of the disease. It is an oral form of Victoza, a medicine already approved for use in diabetes, which ‘turbo-charges’ insulin production in the pancreas, the organ responsible for making the hormone
As you read my blogs, keep in mind that these stories, anecdotes and tools are all based around my philosophy for success: THE TURTLE EFFECT (Highlighted in the new book When Turtles Fly: Secrets of Successful People Who Know How to Stick Their Necks Out ). The Turtle Effect was taught to me by my mother when I was a young girl. She told me that I could achieve anything I wanted to as long as I remembered to have a soft inside, a hard shell, and be sure to stick my neck out.
