Celebrities With Kidney Transplants

Time for another story on celebrity health, fellow Health Care Zoners. After talking about celebrities with tinnitus and celebrities with bipolar disorder, we think its time for us to focus on famous people who had kidney transplants. Let’s start from the world of sports with Croatian footballer Ivan Klasnić who underwent two kidney transplants in [...]

Celebrities With Kidney Transplants, Health Care Zone

Is McDonald’s Fruitizz Healthy or Calorie-Ridden?

Is Fruitizz a healthier alternative to Coke or Pepsi? Or is it the same-old same-old calorie-ridden drink that will make your kids fat? Listening to the sales pitch of McDonald’s execs about Fruitizz would make you think that the world’s biggest fast food chain has finally found an answer to criticisms that it is promoting [...]

Is McDonald’s Fruitizz Healthy or Calorie-Ridden?, Health Care Zone

Celebrities With Tinnitus: Shatner, Letterman, Streisand, & Reagan

Did you know that Coldplay lead vocalist Chris Martin is afflicted with tinnitus? We didn’t either but he revealed recently that he was diagnosed with the condition nearly ten years ago and that it was caused by his propensity to listen to music oh-so-loudly when he was a teenager. For those of you not familiar [...]

Celebrities With Tinnitus: Shatner, Letterman, Streisand, & Reagan, Health Care Zone

Is Drinking Hand Sanitizer Safe or Dangerous? Side Effects & Health Risks

California health authorities worried over teens getting drunk on hand sanitizer Care for a shot of hand sanitizer? Apparently, a growing number of American teenagers do — and the odd but deadly new habit has already landed a number of them in hospital emergency rooms in Los Angeles this month. The new trend has alarmed [...]

Is Drinking Hand Sanitizer Safe or Dangerous? Side Effects & Health Risks, Health Care Zone

Nanotech in Food and Cosmetics: FDA Safety Guidelines

“In 1959, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist challenged his colleagues to use submicroscopic particles to manufacture a wide range of products,” the United States Food and Drug Administration writes in a consumer update on nanotechnology uploaded on its website on April 20. The idea “captivated the imagination of scientists and inspired the science fiction movies ‘Fantastic [...]

Nanotech in Food and Cosmetics: FDA Safety Guidelines, Health Care Zone

Cardiomyopathy in Children: Symptoms, Treatment, & Mortality

Kidnapped 5-year old American heart patient, Porter Stone, found safe — and how his case highlights cardiomyopathy in children Five year-old Porter Stone, a heart patient who was next on a transplant waiting list when he was kidnapped by his estranged father from a St. Louis, Missouri hospital, has been found safe just outside Chicago, [...]

Cardiomyopathy in Children: Symptoms, Treatment, & Mortality, Health Care Zone

Blood Tests Diagnose Depression?

New blood tests to diagnose depression may lead to better treatment, less stigma Diagnosing teenage depression the way it’s done now — by letting teens take the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and asking them to describe their own symptoms, and then relying on psychiatrists to interprete these — can be tricky since mood swings are [...]

Blood Tests Diagnose Depression?, Health Care Zone

Neuroticism, Depression, & Memory Reappraisal

Depression can be prevented by ‘reappraising’ negative memories, study suggests The thoughts we have — and how we deal with it — can make us fall into a downward spiral of depression — or can help us stave if off. That’s the basic finding of a new study in the journal Emotion. Women, in particular, [...]

Neuroticism, Depression, & Memory Reappraisal, Health Care Zone

Weight Loss Surgery Cuts Type 2 Diabetes

It’s been less than one month since two studies — conducted independently by researchers in the United States and Italy — concluded that bariatric surgery may be the best treatment for obese people who suffer from type 2 diabetes. Now a new study, conducted by yet another institution, also in Italy, comes to the same [...]

Weight Loss Surgery Cuts Type 2 Diabetes, Health Care Zone

Chin Surgery Benefits & Side Effects

Chin surgery skyrockets by 71% in the U.S. With more American career women wanting to look good for video conferencing, and more American male executives wanting to project a strong and decisive CEO-like image, the numbers of ‘chinplants’ — or chin augmentations — carried out in the United States in 2011 have exploding to 20,680. [...]

Chin Surgery Benefits & Side Effects, Health Care Zone