Listerine Total Care Review: No, It Can’t Prevent Gum Disease!

Listerine Total Care Review: No, It Can’t Prevent Gum Disease! Does Listerine Total Care and other mouthwash products really prevent gum disease as they claim? The answer is a big fat “No” according to the Food and Drug Administration.

For this reason, the agency issued a letter to Johnson & Johnson (which manufactures Listerine) and two other companies — CVS Corporation (CVS Complete Care Anticavity Mouthwash), and Walgreen Company (Walgreen Mouth Rinse Full Action) — telling them to stop making unproven claims about their effin mouthwash products.

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Best Wart Treatment: Cryotherapy, Salicylic Acid, or Nothing?

Best Wart Treatment: Cryotherapy, Salicylic Acid, or Nothing? If you have warts in your hand or in your feet, you should not worry too much about them because they cannot kill you. But if you want to get rid of them, you have three treatment options to choose from: kill the warts with cryotherapy, use salicylic acid, or simply ignore them.

Interestingly some researchers, who recently published their study in the Canadian Medical Association Journals or CMAJ, experimented on these three methods to find out which one of them is the most effective in the war against warts.

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What is Robo-Tripping? Cough Medicine Abuse

What is robo-tripping? It’s the abuse of over-the-counter cough medicine such as Robitussin. A decision by the Food and Drug Administration will determine whether this will continue.

The Food and Drug Administration advisory committee will decide on Tuesday evening whether or not to restrict access to over-the-counter cough medicine.

This move by the FDA is prompted by several reports of kids taking too much bottles of cough syrups in order to get high. According to an NBC report, at least five percent of teens admit to have taken eight to 20 times the recommended dosages of the cough medicine in an attempt to get high.

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Smokeless Tobacco Side Effects: Risk of Cancer, Heart Attack, Stroke

Smokeless Tobacco Side Effects: Risk of Cancer, Heart Attack, Stroke. What are the health effects of smokeless tobacco? Apparently, it is still as bad for your health.

The American Heart Association (AHA) has found allies in its campaign to discourage smokers from using smokeless tobacco products as an alternative to popular cigarettes or as part of stopping the habit.

Canadian health organizations are delighted with the statement, issued recently by the AHA, which essentially asserts that no tobacco product is safe.

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Can Plants Grow Inside the Body: The Ron Sveden Case

Can Plants Grow Inside the Body: The Ron Sveden Case. Our daily health question of the day goes like this: Can plants grow inside the human body? Well, if I haven’t heard about the story of Ron Sveden I would go, “What kind of dumb question is that? Of course not!”

But check out this story about a Massachusetts man named Ron Sveden who, apparently, had a pea plant growing inside his body. Good thing doctors were able to catch and remove it before it made things worse for Ron.

Learn more about Ron Sveden’s cause from this NBC report:

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Can Men Develop Breasts?

Can men develop breasts? Yes some of them can. It’s called gynecomastia. The condition can be found among babies (because of the female hormones from their moms), adolescents, adults, and the elderly. It may be treated with surgery, radiation therapy, and intake of some medications.

How common is gynecomastia? According to Glenn D. Braunstein, MD, chairman of the department of medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, nearly half of men may experience this condition at some point in their lives.

Here’s a photo of a Chinese farmer named Guo Feng with a severe case of gynemocastia:

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