by Rachael Link MS.RD Triglycerides are a type of fat found in your blood. After you eat, your body converts the calories that you don’t need into triglycerides and stores them in your fat cells to be used for energy later. While you do need triglycerides to supply your body with energy, having too many triglycerides in your blood can increase your risk of heart disease . About 25% of adults in the US have ...

The medical scientists remain active to find out the reasons of old ages and slow recovery in people. Recently, Dr. David Yen-Ting Chen, of Taipei Medical University in New Taipei City, Taiwan, and colleagues suggest the findings point to a need to treat older patients differently from younger patients following concussion or mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). MTBI is a significant public health problem. I ...

By Afshain Afzal All hopes for the polio free world have vanished like water bubbles exposed to sun. The series of detection of new polio type virus cases in United States of America, Canada and some of the European countries has put a question mark on the effectiveness of the polio vaccines and credibility of the executors of immunization campaign,  There are many who have discredited organizations like Ro ...

In the past it was thought that people should limit the number of eggs they eat because they contain dietary cholesterol. But it is now known that saturates – in which eggs are relatively low – are more influential in raising blood cholesterol than dietary cholesterol itself. Over 30 years of prospective epidemiological surveys of coronary heart disease (CHD) risk have consistently found no independent rela ...

By Elizabeth Hayes Fighting Cancer is the most important need of the current era. Thousand of people die every year due to this cruel disease. However scientists are fighting to defeat cancer. Anyhow, the journal Science has identified immunotherapy as the Breakthrough of the Year, and although the accompanying article doesn’t name Providence Cancer Center specifically, the Portland-based center is a leader ...

At the mention of peppermint, candy canes and ice cream comes to mind. But did you know that peppermint is also an age-old herbal medicine that has been used to treat a wide range of abdominal woes? The oil extracted from the peppermint plant contains a host of compounds, but the most abundant and perhaps the most pharmacologically important is menthol. Studies have shown peppermint oil to be fairly effecti ...

MARIA CHENG — AP Medical Writer          LONDON — For a hamburger that cost more than $300,000, you might expect fries and a shake too. But this is no ordinary burger. At a public tasting in London on Monday, scientists are prepared to serve up the first hamburger grown in a laboratory from stem cells of cattle. Mark Post, whose team at Maastricht University in the Netherlands developed the burger after fiv ...

Khloé Kardashian Odom is killing those calories! The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star has been flaunting her svelte figure quite a bit lately—and rightfully so! And now the 29-year-old gal has given us a glimpse at one of her slimdown secrets. Khloé took to Twitter on Tuesday and posted a pic that revealed the end results of a recent workout. "I only had 35 mins to be in the gym but I hustled. Weerrrkkk ...