Health Tip: When Your Taste Buds Sour |
Taste impairments can be caused by anything that affects the way the brain processes your sense of taste, including smoking, a vitamin deficiency, a drug, or even the common cold.
Here are other common causes of taste problems, courtesy of the U. |
Health Tip: Dealing With Dandruff |
Dandruff, also known as seborrheic dermatitis, occurs when flakes of skin develop on the scalp or inside the ear.
The skin condition, which can run in families, may be triggered by stress, fatigue, oily skin, acne or using hair or skin products t |
Dutchman offers 'cure' for nail biting |
| Do you find your fingers drifting into your mouth when you're nervous, anxious or just bored? Are your nails chewed to splinters or your cuticles gnawed to bleeding pulp? Nail biting is more than a bad habit. Doctors say it is one of the most common |
TV linked to teen attention problems |
Children who watch more than two hours of television a day are more likely to have attention problems as a teenager, a new study shows.
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Warning left off chocolate bars |
| Death by chocolate could become a reality after a labelling glitch left a crucial health warning off thousands of chocolate bars.
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Just 10 minutes of cellphone chat may trigger cancer |
| Just 10 minutes of chatting on cellular phones is enough to trigger such chemical changes in the brain that can increase the risk of cancer, war |
Women seek more online health info |
Women are much more likely than men to search the Internet for information on health, according to research conducted by two professors from Bryant University in Sm |
British women's waists grow 7 inches in 50 years |
The hourglass figure has fallen victim to the sands of time - and a surfeit of calories.
In the heyday of Sophia Loren and Marilyn Monroe, women aspired to a wasp wa |
How do women choose Mr Right: It's in his kiss! |
Winning a first kiss is enough of a challenge for most male suitors.
But getting the act itself right may be even more important - because apparently it can |
Junk sleep damaging teenagers' health |
Teenagers are damaging their health by not getting enough sleep because they are distracted by electronic gadgets in their bedrooms, according to a survey.
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We remember bad times better than good times |
A new study has shown that we tend to remember the bad times better than the good.
The study, from Boston C |
What men should eat every day |
| Typically, men think about their health at one time -- during a crisis. But the problem with that wait-and-treat approach is that men are constantly responding to health eme |
Men have evolved to fall for younger women |
| Ever wonder just why men fall for women young enough to be their daughters or women tend to hook up with men far older than themselves? Well, th |
Myleene Klass shows off baby Ava |
Cradling her daughter's head, Myleene Klass takes time to examine five little fingers and a perfect button nose.
This first picture published of tiny Ava Quinn captu |
Make a New Assault on Salt |
If you're like most Americans, there's too much salt in your diet, which can lead to high blood pressure and increased risk of heart attack or stroke, experts warn.
The issue is so important that the American Medical Association (AMA), the Americ |