Month: October 2012

Is Spending Extra Money On Organic Food Worth It?

If you are one of many people who are willing to spend a bit extra on organic food to keep your family healthy, you will be surprised by the findings of the group of researchers from the Stanford University and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. In their new study they found that […]

New Prosthetic Retina – Great Hope For Many Blind People

The scientists are one step closer to creating a device which will recover the vision of people who are blind due to the disease which destroyed their retina. Two researchers from the Weill Cornell Medical College discovered the retina’s neural code, the way retina translates images into electrical impulses and sends them to the brain […]

Breastfeed Children Do Better In School

While many women opt not to breastfeed their babies, for one reason or another, scientists and medical practitioners agree that the best a mother can do for her baby is to breastfeed him or her as long as possible. Besides all general health benefits, such as strong immune system of baby and resistance to diseases, […]

Women Are From Venus And Men Are From Mars? Or Is It All Just About Testosterone?

That men and women see things differently is nothing new. After all, women are from Venus and men are from Mars, right? Scientists say that the differences are actually more liked to hormones than to the planetary origin. So, when the love of your life tells you that he does not see any difference between […]

War Against Bugs

Reading the news these days may leave you confused: bubonic plague? Hantavirus? West Nile virus? Not in India or Uganda, but in the middle of good old US of A. What is going on? Where are all those scary diseases coming from? And, most importantly, what can we do to keep safe from them? It […]

What Is Psoriasis?

What Is Psoriasis?

Psoriasis is a term that describes a condition of the skin of two main varieties, pustular and nonpustular, along with several less common varieties. The most commonly found form of psoriasis is of the nonpustular variety referred to as psoriasis vulgaris (chronic stationary psoriasis, plaque-like psoriasis) (L40.0).