New warnings for high cholesterol medication

Patients who suffer from high cholesterol have been successfully able to manage the condition with prescription medications known as statins. These have over the years shown to significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and cardiovascular disease, while present relatively few side effects.

But the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently announced that these medications will require additional safety information to ensure patients are...

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Is there a new prescription weight loss medication just around the corner?

There have been no new prescription weight loss treatments in nearly 13 years, forming part of the reason why obesity levels continue to rise and obesity-related deaths grow more frequent.

However, a small drug firm in the United States recently renewed interest into the hope that an effective medication exists.

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Build Muscle and Lose Fat

Building muscle can actually help people lose weight, specifically burn fat much faster than regular exercise or dietary supplements. It may go against common knowledge, but that's exactly what makes it so effective.

Find out more about the process and how you can burn fat by building quality muscle.

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Could a popular stop smoking medication also help reduce alcohol consumption levels?

Champix is a popular and effective prescription medication designed to help smokers quit the habit. It does this by blocking the rewarding sensation and feeling experienced by smokers from nicotine, which essentially makes them crave tobacco less as it no longer provides any stimulation.

A new study conducted in the United States suggests that it may also help people lower their levels of alcohol consumption in much the same way.

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Contraceptive Implants - Should the choice be with the child?

The debate about contraceptive implant use for young girls is raging fiercely across the media and within UK schools. On the one hand you have angry parents whose children have received contraceptive implants to avoid pregnancy without their parental knowledge. And on the other side you have the sexual health services and educators providing information and more importantly, the contraceptive implants itself, defending the initiative to reduce teenage...

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Erectile Dysfunction - An indication of something else?

Erectile dysfunction has many causes, which can range between the physical and psychological.

However, the condition has in the past rarely been recognised as a precursor or signal to further health issues. And simply put, it seems like impotence is seen more as a condition that is a by-product of something else rather than an indication.

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Malaria more deadly than previously thought

Malaria is an infectious disease that any potential tourist or globe trotter has heard of at least once. The disease is very common in tropical regions of the world and is known to affect millions of people every year.

New information however, found in a study published in the Lancet medical journal, suggests that the original estimated mortality rate is dangerously inaccurate.

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Sugar in foods may be regulated

The idea of regulating sugar in foods is fast becoming potentially the next big step in fighting the rising levels of obesity worldwide.

It seems only a matter of time though before forms of regulation appear on sugar heavy foods and drinks. And it seems only fair given that excess weight and obesity have taken such a large step forward in terms of healthcare costs and potential health risks they cause.

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