Health

Year of Discovery: 1628 What Is It? The first complete understanding of how arteries, veins, heart, and lungs function to form a single, complete circulatory system. Who Discovered It? William Harvey Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? The human circulatory system represents the virtual definition of life. No system is more critical to [...]

The Hyde Park from central London hosted this year like in the last 146 the traditional 100 meter race in his lake waters. This happens every year at Christmas. The bad side is the fact that this year the temperature was very low and the hosts were forced to cancel the race because of the [...]

The Italian director Mario Monicelli, one of the masters of Italian comedy, killed himself on Monday evening, at the age of 95, throwing himself from the window from a hospital in Rome where he was under treatment. The Italian movie star was in the hospital suffering from cancer and was receiving treatment from doctors at [...]

An English comedian managed to spend all his money after the medic told him he has only 3 months to live. The funny side of the story is that his medical problems were of a different nature than then medics thought so he found himself broke. Inspiring from the movie “The last wish” Dave Ismay [...]

According to the Heath Department from Haiti cholera made over 1.250 victims so far. The number of suffering persons that have been admitted in the hospital has reached 20.687 and over 52.715 cases of contamination were registered. These numbers are from November 17 according to some sources. A little over half Cholera cases are situated [...]

Pope Benedict the XVI has just declared that he will be the 1st Pope in over 700 years that will resign if his health condition should get worse or if would have mental problems. The Pope, that has 83 years, made a big fuss with the declaration at Vatican. And it’s not the 1st of [...]

The Arizona authorities have launched a law that states marijuana is legal for those people that have mental problems. According to The Telegraph, Arizona is the 15th state from US that accepted marijuana consumption in medical purposes. California was the 1st state that accepted this law back in 1966, being followed by other 13 among [...]

Travellers to African countries will have to worry for another virus called Lujo. According to a team of scientists, the Lujo Virus is very similar to the Ebola virus as it’s lethal and it causes massive bleeding to infected people. The Lujo Virus infected five people from Zambia and South Africa as of September last [...]

Final summer exams, even if over in most of the U.S. and U.K., are still going on through out Europe. Even for those who finished that trying time of the school year, the simple memory is quite a nuisance. But it seems that some students found out a way to focus better: special nero-medication used [...]

Yesterday we reported that you shouldn’t think that the swine flu threat is over, and we told you that you should protect yourself and be very careful. We are sorry to announce that the H1N1 virus has caused yet another death in the US, but this time it was in New York City. 55 year [...]