Oral health

Bone health impacts wrist fracture risk Wrist fractures are common as a result of falls, and elderly people can have significant disability even after the wrist heals...

New Hope for Asthma Sufferers RESEARCHERS from the University of Virginia recently reported in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine that people suffering acute asthma episodes have an unusually high level of acidity in their lungs...

Chewing Sticks Provide An Alternative To Toothbrushes The western world's use of the toothbrush and toothpaste as part of a daily dental hygiene regimen is not the only effective way to clean teeth and prevent plaque build-up...

Many Drugs Can Deplete Nutrients Many common prescription and over-the-counter medications can cause nutritional losses that can have serious health consequences...

Elements of the Game: Chewing "When I did games on television, we did what seems to me too many reaction shots in the dugout. I never did like those. ... Invariably when we go into the dugout, what do we get? We get somebody spitting, we get somebody chewing and spitting seeds...

New drug regimen helps control diabetes Patients taking the oral diabetes drug metformin may achieve better control of their blood sugar if they also take a newer drug called rosiglitazone (Avandia)...

Eradicating polio difficult in war-torn nations More than a decade after declaring its intention to eradicate polio worldwide by December 31, 2000, the World Health Assembly (WHA) is close to achieving its goal...

Zinc: This Mineral's a Heavy Hitter - And Don't Forget It! A grandmother in Oregon takes a bottle of tablets from the cabinet. "I know Im supposed to take my zinc," she tells her husband, "but I cant remember why."...

Viagra rival wins support for fighting impotence A new pill called Uprima, though seen as having some undesirable side effects, moved a step closer Monday to becoming the first rival to the wildly popular Viagra as a possible oral treatment for impotence...

The Speed of Sex Psychologist Marsha Levy-Warren said she is seeing more and more preteens who are going on junior versions of dates in fifth grade, at 10 or 11 years old. By seventh grade, they have graduated to sex...