According to recent research, smoking cigarettes incredibly increases the risk of vision loss due to age-related macular degeneration. What’s more, that risk hits not only smokers but also people living with them.

Macular degeneration is a progressive eye disease. It is one of the major causes of partial vision loss and blindness in the US and many European countries.

A Manitoba doctor who prescribed a pain-relief patch that resulted in the death of a teenager has been censured by the province’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Tiffany Whitter, a 15-year-old girl, died after taking Duragesic, that she had been prescribed by Dr. Murray Reimer of Winkler after weeks of chronic headache. The skin patch is not recommended for children.

New research suggests that wearing a helmet during skiing or snowboarding down the slopes can reduce the risk of head injury by 60 percent.

A study that appears in the the Feb. 22 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that injuries made during these winter sports are a usual reason of hospitalization among snowboarders and skiers, and the reason of death in 8 percent of those cases.

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When the weather is cold and the sky is gray, some people tend to feel sad and unhappy. But these feelings are nothing in comparison with serious, chronic depression that is resistant to any kind of treatment.

A new research states that children suffering from depression may face severe medical problems in their adult life, especially obesity and asthma.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the average American consumes the equivalent of about 20 teaspoons of sugar per day, between meals, drinks and snacks.

A great deal of people choose artificial sweeteners like saccharin and aspartame in order to save calories and - at the same time - satisfy their desire for sweets.

What whole grains are? The first federal definition can help you to find out whether your favorite cereal, crackers, pasta and everyday bread are whole-grain.

Eric Hentges, executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion states that almost a half of Americans never consume a whole grain and that is why knowledge of whole grains is so precious. The government’s 2005 dietary guidelines suggest most adults to consume three one-ounce portions of whole grains every day.

According to group of experts, a new vaccine to preclude rotavirus, the most common cause of serious diarrhea in children, should be given to all infants. That brings to 15 the number of illnesses for which vaccines are recommended.

Due to a report in the February issue of the Archives of Surgery, chewing gum after open sigmoid colectomy may stimulate bowel motility and, as a result, shorten the stay at hospital by about 2 days.