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A new smartphone application from Canada has been developed to help parents track their child’s vaccinations. The app seeks to replace the well known yellow card- a paper sheet that tracks children’s immunization history. The yellow card can be required by schools for registration in classes. The problem is that these paper sheets go missing […]

Common painkillers like Aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen, won’t just help alleviate your pain – they might reduce your risk of developing skin cancer as well. The news stems from a study conducted in Denmark and published in the journal Cancer. The results of the research showed that individuals who routinely took non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs were […]

Announcing a recent breakthrough for heart disease patients! Canadian scientists discovered that they can create life-giving patches from a patient’s own stem cells to repair damaged or diseased hearts. The findings provide a hopeful alternative for current stem cell therapies that use donated bone marrow stem cells, but risk being rejection by the receiving heart […]

U.S. scientists have some welcome news for those who miss bread, but have serious gluten allergies, like Celiac Disease. Up until now, those with gluten allergies or severe intolerance have had one choice if they want to squelch abdominal pain—to abandon all foods containing wheat, barley and rye. However, it’s a daily struggle to kick gluten completely […]

You use them to scratch an itch, grip shopping items before picking them from the grocery store shelf, and maybe you even bedazzle them in the season’s hottest shade—but did you know that your fingernails can actually provide little windows to your health? In fact, sudden imperfections or alterations to the surface or shape of […]