General Health Articles:
General Health Articles features articles and news on alcohol treatment and rehabilitation, allergies, clinical trials, quitting smoking and sexual health.
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Aug 12th, 2009
By deploying new proteomics technology, researchers have identified two molecular keys that unlock a crucial cellular door.
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Aug 8th, 2009
A "fracture" is the technical term for a "broken bone," which is a crack in the bone.
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Aug 7th, 2009
Special Olympics Founder, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, is reported to be in critical condition. She has been hospitalized at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Though no word of what illness has led to her hospitalization, she is known to have had a series of strokes in recent years.
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Aug 7th, 2009
How does fibrin manage to be so strong and yet so extensible under the stresses of healing and blood flow?
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Aug 6th, 2009
Neuroscientists have borrowed heavily from botanists to describe the way that neurons grow, but analogies between the growth of neurons and plants may be more than superficial.
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Aug 1st, 2009
A study of almost 25,000 coronary artery bypass graft patients shows receiving blood from another person is associated with a two-fold increase in post-operative infection rates.
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Aug 1st, 2009
As the body creates antibodies to fight invaders, a three-protein DNA repair complex called MRN is crucial for a normal gene-shuffling process to proceed properly.
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Jul 31st, 2009
Organ trafficking or organ trade is a global problem, and one reason it is such a dilemma is that there is a severe shortage of viable organs and organ donors, especially kidney donors. According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, for example, more than 80,000 Americans are waiting for a kidney. Each day thirteen of these individuals die.
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Jul 30th, 2009
The Allegheny County Health Department is sponsoring a survey to assess behavioral and environmental risk factors affecting the health of County residents.
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Jul 29th, 2009
Florida has launched a new website, DonateLifeFlorida.org, meant to make it easier for Floridians to become givers (organ donors). The registry will allow each person to designate themselves as organ, tissue, and eye donors.
