Cancer is one of the main traumatising life experiences anyone has to go through, and whilst chemotherapy can potentially be a positive, unfortunately its negative side effects such as loss of hair can also feel like a loss of dignity. However a fresh device may assist in preserving both a woman’s dignity as well as […]
Last year’s “open enrolment” season (where workers sign up for health benefits for the following year) has brought about new prices – but it’s not all doom and gloom. This year the Bay Area, including San Jose, will see the price of group health insurance rise by 9 per cent. According to a study conducted […]
Statistics have shown that legal fee costs for personal injury claims are adding on average £40 to the cost of a yearly car insurance policy. Ten pence from every pound spent on car insurance premiums will go directly to personal injury lawyers due to rising legal fee costs of personal injury claims after an increase […]
A leading surgeon has advised that young females have minute portions of their ovaries frozen in order to avoid difficulties if, when middle aged, they wish to begin a family. Dr Sherman Sibler, who carried out the world’s first whole ovary transplant in 2007, said that this technique has the potential to give a woman […]
The process used by at-home tests to assess infertility may not be the most apt means for identifying female infertility, a new study has suggested. According to a University of North Carolina study, the cut-offs used by these tests that determine the intensity of a molecule, Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH), might label some women as […]
The reasons behind infertility often differ from one person to the next, with many factors such as age, hormones and body composition considered. Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have suggested that blood type plays a part in this. Said it has been discovered that women who have the blood type O were […]
Males suffering from baldness will often seek extreme remedies to try and make their hair grow back. One of the most effective treatments is the hair transplant, but men thinking about this drastic step should consider the possible complications and side effects that can follow. The hair transplant is often a last resort in the […]
A study by the Harley Street Medical Group has found that the number of menopausal women seeking cosmetic surgery has risen by nearly 70% over the last year. Cosmetic surgery has always been popular among women over the age of 50, who are not only starting to notice lines and wrinkles, but are facing problems […]
An associate of the School Board in the US city of Buffalo has revealed how many of the city’s teachers and administrators are taking advantage of a clause in their health care insurance which allows them to claim for cosmetic surgery procedures. Chris Jacobs has revealed that while the inclusion of cosmetic surgery in the […]
Employees are forever searching for the perfect excuse when they take a sick day without really being ill. But sometimes those excuses are so far-fetched that they actually make bosses suspicious that an employee is faking their problem. A survey in the US has found some of the worst excuses ever offered when a worker […]