Child Overcome Asthma Asthma in your child can be quite a threat but you can take control of that with several holistic measures and making sure that your child is in a safe environment. While many children develop asthma because their parents have been or are smokers, there are those who get it due to Read more
Archive : Allergy and Infection
Asthma may attack your baby in the womb
A new study has revealed that the babies delivered by the mothers living in heavy traffic areas may be at a greater risk to develop asthma due to the change in the genetic structure. Researchers found it while studying umbilical cord blood of the children at New York City. The change was noticed in the Read more
Toenail Fungus Cure
Are you a victim of toenail fungus and looking for a right treatment that really works? This quest may require comprehensive information to deal with, on the basis of which you make a correct decision. Numbers of herbal, natural and scientifically improved formulations are available on the web that claims to be the best with Read more
Genital herpes now preventable with Cream
Half a billion of global population is carrier of herpes simplex viruses. Herpes is a controllable disease but its prevention is almost impossible. It spreads through sex among people. U.S scientists have developed a cream for topical use which can prevent from genital herpes. This cream has been tested in the mice, so far. This Read more
Flu Strains are developing resistant against common antiviral drugs
The most widespread type of flu this season has become resistant to the widely used antiviral drug Tamiflu, but there is no need to get worry, government health officials announced. Especially this season flu cases are far lower than the previous year, and other antiviral drugs are working well against this particular flu virus and Read more
Asthma: a preventable disease
Overview Asthma is a disease that affects your airways which includes bronchial tubes and air sacs. Airways are tubes that carry breath in and out of the lungs. In disease like asthma, the inner walls of airways become inflamed (sore and swollen). This inflammation makes them highly sensitive and reactive, to a number of allergic Read more
Scientists Effort To Shorten mosquito Life Span
On Friday a new report is out with an easier solution for mosquito problems. The idea is to infect the mosquito so to shorten its life span and cause an early death. This idea came up after a research done by Australian researchers concluding that old mosquitoes are more deadly and dangerous as they are Read more
AIDS: A killer of 3 million people, each year
Around 25 years ago, doctors in the U.S discovered the first cases of Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, generally known as “AIDS” in San Francisco and New York. Now, 42 million people are suffering from AIDS globally, according to estimation, and the mortality rate is almost 3 million, each year, due to AIDS-related diseases. AIDS is Read more
Acne and natural treatments
A large number of people are suffering from acne these days and the increasing sale of medicines for acne treatment show this number is on increase. Now you may find a lot of people around who look for the acne treatment that work. The question is why there is so much increase in the number Read more
Worry about acne? Here are some tips
Acne is often considered a problem that is hard to get rid of, but if you take good care of your skin and clean it in a regular proper way, it becomes quite easier to avoid as well as get rid of this nagging problem. Here are some tips that can be very handy if Read more
Some risk factors for ear infections in children
Children often have to suffer from ear infections, as they are quite common among them. There are several factors that become the cause of ear infections in children. However, there are some other factors (environmental as well as beyond anyone’s control) that may increase your child’s ear infection risk. Here is the list of some Read more
Drug-resistant bacteria on increase in hospitals worldwide
An infectious disease expert says that dangerous bacteria that were normally found in soil and water are on the increase in hospitals worldwide. Mathew Falagas, who is director of the Alfa Institute of Biomedical Science in Greece, says that Acinetobactor baumannii accounts for almost 30 percent of drug-resistant hospital infections and it is more resistant Read more
Eating peanut in early life may prevent allergy, a new study says
Casting doubts on government health recommendations that infants and new mothers should avoid eating peanuts, a new study says that eating peanuts early in life may help to avoid developing peanut allergy. In their study, the researchers looked at the occurrence of peanut allergy in 8,600 Jewish school-age children in Israel and the UK. Then Read more