The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a medicine designed to cure yeast-like fungal infections that often attack hospital patients and people suffering from compromised immune systems.

A new research finds that almost a quarter of teenagers did not use protection the last time they had intercourse

A new study finds that pregnant women who suffer from stress during the first three weeks after conception are up to three times as likely to miscarry.

Safety fears have been highlighted by significant differences in the way children’s bodies deal with medications when compared with adults. According to recent research, proteins crucial to the activity of medicines behave quite differently in kids. The proteins are enzymes acting as biochemical catalysts. Depending on how they work, they can make a medication successful, useless, or toxic. The new study discovered that some enzymes known to share regulatory mechanisms in adults emerge to employ different ones in growing kids.

148 children aged up to 6 who had asked for treatment for burns in 21 Malmo health centers and one hospital were examined by the group of Swedish researchers.

The findings of the study were published in the Journal of Clinical Nursing. It was discovered that almost three-quarters of injured children were under the age of 3, and that two-thirds were boys. The research also revealed that 96 per cent of accidents could have been prevented! What’s more, the scientists accused parents of paying too little attention to risks. The Malmo University researchers discovered 8 out of 10 injuries were scalds, with 71% being caused by hot liquids and 29% caused by hot foods. Many of the accidents happened when children were trying to reach up and pull hot food or liquid off a stove.

When we must make a very important decision, such as buying a car or an apartment, the best thing we can do is to do our homework, and then forget about it for some time and then reconsider all options.

Safety fears have been highlighted by significant differences in the way children’s bodies deal with medications when compared with adults. According to recent research, proteins crucial to the activity of medicines behave quite differently in kids. The proteins are enzymes acting as biochemical catalysts. Depending on how they work, they can make a medication successful, useless, or toxic. The new study discovered that some enzymes known to share regulatory mechanisms in adults emerge to employ different ones in growing kids.

South Australian health experts warn that alcohol is being underestimated as a major cause of cancer. The SA Cancer Council claims that excessive drinking increases the risk of cancer of the mouth, larynx, oesophagus, liver, colon and breast and it may also be associated with cancer of the pancreas and lung. According to chief executive of the SA Cancer Council Brenda Wilson, more and more evidence was pointing to alcohol as a major cause of cancer. “Smoking and sun damage are probably the more well-known causes of some cancers, however, alcohol is a major contributor,” Ms Wilson told us yesterday. “We recommend no more than two standard drinks per day for men and one for women.”

According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the most common form of baldness in men is male-pattern baldness and genes control baldness. It starts when hairline moves back, and hair is thinning on the crown. Finally, the hairline meets the thinning hair at the crown, and a horseshoe pattern of hair is left around the head.

Young people should be encouraged to eat healthy food at school. However, the best way to ameliorate their diets is not through legal actions but through local initiatives supported by state law. The first step to achieve that goal is a proposal to get sugared drinks and other unhealthy foods out of vending machines.