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Cuba offers free penis implants

Mon Nov 23, 12:20 / comments: 0

Sexual impotence is not inevitable for the Cubans for whom the Viagra has no effect, since the communist government decided to offer free implants, according to local media.

Considered in a coma, he was awake but paralyzed

Tue Nov 24, 13:18 / comments: 0

For 23 years doctors have thought he was in a coma. But, says the patient, he was awake, though unable to communicate because the body was totally paralyzed.

Getting rid of anesthesia and scalpel with powerful ultrasound

Fri Dec 4, 14:04 / comments: 0

Directed to a predetermined target, focused ultrasound of high intensity (HIFU) increases the temperature to around 60°C. It can clot and thus destroy tissues with millimeter precision

New techniques can destroy tumors without anesthesia or scalpel with help of a device called ExAblate, developed by Israeli firm Insightec.

A patch therapy against hay fever

Thu Nov 19, 11:40 / comments: 0

A patch therapy against allergic rhinitis (hay fever) can ease suffering in affected people

Team of Gabriela Senti at the University Hospital of Zurich, conducted a study on 37 adults sensitive to grass pollen with skin and nasal testing to provoke a hay fever reaction.

The alcohol would help reduce cardiac risk in men

Sun Nov 29, 10:01 / comments: 0

Regular consumption of alcohol would reduce by about one third the risk of CHD (myocardial infarction, angina pectoris) in men, according to a Spanish study.

Let your kids get dirty

Wed Nov 25, 10:16 / comments: 0

Let the children play outside and get dirty

Let your kids get dirty, they just activate their immune system, claim the scientists.

The tick could become the best friend of man

Mon Dec 7, 14:48 / comments: 0

Ticks are giant mites growing one to three centimeters long. Evoluting they have developed strategies worthy of the best medical concepts, mixing anesthetics, anti-inflammatories and anticoagulants

The parasite's saliva contains a substance that prevents blood clots.

Fighting the stress with knitting needles

Thu Dec 3, 11:58 / comments: 0

Needlework helps to fight stress and endure chronic pain

Do knitting to combat stress! This is the new idea of doctors who are discovering the virtues of needlework to combat stress and endure chronic pain.

The appendix is a useless excrescence. Is it?

Thu Dec 3, 12:22 / comments: 0

Over millions of years, appendix preserves the bacterial flora in our intestines

Appendix is useless. It has only disadvantages. It can become inflamed and infected - this is called the "appendicitis". Yet, over millions of years, it preserves the bacterial flora in our intestines.

A drug to boost female libido

Wed Dec 9, 11:02 / comments: 0

Women will have flibanserin soon to boost their libido

It has been tested with good results in thousands of women suffering from disorders of desire.

The sharp increase in myopia

Wed Dec 16, 16:14 / comments: 0

The two main causes of myopia, besides age, are heredity and environmental factors

The proportion of myopia increased from 25% to almost 42% in 30 years in the United States.

Psoriasis: What can alternative medicine do?

Wed Dec 23, 13:24 / comments: 0

Little improvement in psoriasis after treatment in the Dead Sea

Regarding the treatment administered orally, it is apparent that vitamin B - especially B12 - selenium, aloe vera or avocado oil have little effect in psoriasis.

How to avoid a hangover?

Mon Dec 28, 13:01 / comments: 0

Stay clear, drink water, eat fatty food to reduce hangover

The holiday season often offers an endless consumption of alcohol and usually ends up in a hangover. In this holiday season, the issue is hot! Before stomach gets bad, here are some tips to avoid it.

In fact, the G-spot does not exist

Mon Jan 4, 15:50 / comments: 0

G-spot denotes an erogenous zone stimulation of which can cause intense sexual arousal

This is not worth looking, ladies, if you do not find your G-spot, there is a good reason: it does not exist.

Sport retards aging at the cellular level

Mon Jan 11, 11:38 / comments: 0

A physical training reduces the shortening of telomeres in white blood cells

A study shows the protective effects of exercise on chromosomes. An original study, published recently in the journal Circulation, showed that regular sport practice retards aging, at the cellular level.

Antidepressants useless for most patients

Thu Jan 7, 09:01 / comments: 0

For mild or moderate disease, these drugs are not much better than placebo

Antidepressants are probably unnecessary for the vast majority of patients to whom they are prescribed, but their effectiveness is not in doubt however in very severe forms of depression. For mild or moderate disease, these drugs are not much better than placebo.