In the context of medicine, health or physical fitness, weight loss refers to a reduction of body weight resulting from voluntary (diet and exercise) or involuntary (illness) circumstances. Most of the weight loss arises due to the loss of body fat.
October is the Down Syndrome Awareness Month, a time to have a chance to spread awareness. This is a celebration with people with Down Syndrome and makes people aware of their abilities and accomplishments.
Scientists still don't know if two commonly-used flu drugs -- Roche's Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza -- really work in seasonal or pandemic flu outbreaks and say robust clinical trials are urgently needed to find out.
Maternal and newborn deaths in Sierra Leone have soared since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as fear of being infected and mistrust of health workers deter pregnant women from giving birth in health facilities, researchers said on Tuesday.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk's diabetes drug Tresiba, two years after rejecting the long-acting form of insulin.
The awareness on mental health was raised to indigenous peoples. Aboriginal people have a unique and diverse culture with an interesting and rich history.
A movement was created calling to educate the people who are using Codeine drugs. Related deaths in Australia have been more than doubled in number between the year 2000 and 2009.
For so long, everyone thought that calcium is good for the bones. Men and women of all ages are even advising to take as much as calcium for healthier and stronger bones.
People must be read over and over again the labels of their medicines. Mislabeling a prescription involves misidentifying the drug in the container, printing the improper use of instructions on a drug label or including insufficient or invalid warnings surrounding the use of the drug.
