http://healthcare-article.com Health Care Articles for Diabetes, Heart Disease, Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:54:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tom Mammone, executive director of Clinique Research and Development, talks about how stress affects aging and the benefits of Clinique's latest product, Superdefense SPF 25/ PA+++ Age Defense Moisturizer.Does stress really affect aging? When your body is under stress, it releases hormones including adrenaline and cortisol. These stress hormones can ... http://healthcare-article.com/stress-affect-aging/ Does smoking affect a person's seasoning, memory and other cognitive abilities? A study involved 1964 generally healthy people (average age, 56); about 21% smoked, 44% were former smokers and 35% never had smoked. At the start of the study, smokers scored lower on average than people who never had smoked on ... http://healthcare-article.com/smokings-harm/ HAMBURG: Faced with strict German laws banning the use of human embryos, a team of German scientists came up with a radical new “ethical” source for stem cells – men’s testicles. The scientists believe their breakthrough may offer a whole new range of treatments for diseases like Parkinson’s and diabetes and ... http://healthcare-article.com/testicles-new-source-of-stem-cells-scientists/ Melamine is a chemical used to produce plastic products. However, when melamine was mixed with watered-down milk it make it appears richer in protein than it actually is. http://healthcare-article.com/why-was-melamine-used-in-milk-products/ South Korean authorities have found trace amounts of melamine in milk products imported from New Zealand that were used in baby formula and banned their import, its food safety agency said on Thursday.The Korea Food and Drug Administration said in a statement that the product, lactoferrin, was produced by Tatua ... http://healthcare-article.com/melamine-is-milk-products-form-new-zealand/ Melamine is an organic compound, a base with chemical formula C3H6N6. It is has a molecular mass of just over 126, forms a white, crystalline powder, and is only slightly soluble in water. It is used as a fi re retardant additive in polymer resins because its high nitrogen content is ... http://healthcare-article.com/what-is-melamine/ BEIJING: China said on Wednesday a third infant had died from drinking milk contaminated with toxic melamine and 6,244 infants were sick as four officials were sacked amid a widening scandal.The number of infants diagnosed with "acute kidney failure" had risen to 158, Health Minister Chen Zhu told a news ... http://healthcare-article.com/three-die-in-china-baby-powder-scandal-thousands-sick/ BEIJING (Sept 16, 2008): The number of Chinese infants found threatened by toxic milk powder is likely to rise as the search for victims spreads, state media reported yesterday, as the government faced growing public anger over the safety crisis.More than 1,200 children have been diagnosed with kidney illness after ... http://healthcare-article.com/china-toxic-milk-victim-count-expected-to-rise/ The AIDS virus is especially hard to fight because few people develop antibodies to neutralize it, but U.S. researchers said on Thursday they have found an immunity gene that may offer a new way to fight back.They said the gene Apobec3 helps mice develop antibodies against an HIV-like virus, and ... http://healthcare-article.com/gene-the-key-to-neutralizing-hiv-us-study/ A vaginal yeast infection is one of the most irritating yet common conditions that affect women.In fact, it is so common that about 75% of women will have a yeast infection at some point in their lives. With almost half will have recurrent infections, meaning two or more infections later ... http://healthcare-article.com/yeast-in-the-vagina/