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Wifi Allergy: Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity is a Thing

Wifi Allergy: Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity is a Thing. Wi-Fi is a device used to connect electronic devices wirelessly. A Wi-Fi enabled device—a personal computer, video game console, smart phone or digital audio player—can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point.

An access point, or hotspot, has a range of about 20 meters (65 feet) indoors and a greater range outdoors. Multiple overlapping access points are used to cover areas as large as many square kilometers.

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Pregnant, Fat, and Overweight: Health Risk to Your Kid?

Pregnant, Fat, and Overweight: Health Risk to Your Kid? Are you pregnant? Are you overweight? Today, most people know that being overweight before and during pregnancy can harm a woman’s health seriously.

But new research shows that being overweight when you’re pregnant can also have health consequences for your child, and these can last into his or her adulthood.

“While it’s pretty well-known that a healthy weight is crucial to a healthy and long life, new research is showing that if a woman is overweight while pregnant, her baby is more likely to be overweight,” said Alan R. Fleischman, M.D., medical director of March of Dimes.

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Undercooked Liver Pate Food Poisoning: Campylobacter Infections Rise

Campylobacter Infection and Undercooked Liver Pate. Serving undercooked chicken or duck liver pâté or parfait has been a trend among both haute cuisine chefs and amateur foodies for some time now. But public health officials in the United Kingdom say this may cause hundreds of people to fall ill with food poisoning.

Eating undercooked poultry liver pâté or parfait at weddings and other functions in hotels, clubs, restaurants and other banquet venues has been identified as the cause of nearly all food poisoning cases across the UK this year.

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Viagra and Healthy Hearts: Viagra Keeps Cerys Small Alive

Viagra and Healthy Hearts: Viagra Keeps Cerys Small Alive. A ten-month old baby girl, who battled three open-heart surgeries in the first months of her life, is being kept alive by daily doses of Viagra.

Cerys Small, who lives with her family in Maesglas, Newport, South Wales, was born with a severe heart defect, no spleen and problems with her stomach and bowel. Her condition is kept stable by the anti-impotence drug.

Viagra it is best known as drug for men who have trouble having erections, but before scientists realized it could treat this sexual dysfunction, it was initially designed as a heart drug. And for people like Cerys it is still used to treat pulmonary hypertension to prepare for further major heart surgery.

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Viagra and Cancer: Can the ED Drug Prevent Prostate Cancer?

We all know Viagra as a wonder drug for men suffering from erectile dysfunction. But recent studies show that the drug may be far more valuable than we expect, with the potential to fight different cancers in various ways.

If recent studies can be confirmed by human trials, Viagra (sildenafil) may be the first line of defense against melanoma, the most dangerous skin cancer. It may be used, not only to improve the sex lives of men who have had surgery for prostate cancer, but to prevent prostate cancer, as well. And it may even be given with anti-cancer drugs to make these more effective and to ease their serious side effects.

All these are findings of several studies, done independently and published in different scientific journals over recent years.

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Rick Hardcastle Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis

Rick Hardcastle Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis. A new stem cell treatment may help people who struggle with multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disease that affects about 400,000 people in the United States and more than two million people worldwide.

A new stem cell treatment helped him “phenomenally,” said Rep. Rick Hardcastle, state representative of Texas, after he participated in a recent round of autologous adult stem cell treatments to help his multiple sclerosis.

The treatment involved taking adult stem cells from his own fat, sending these to a lab where they are developed, then reintroducing the stem cells into the patient via intravenous therapy.

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