Tag: Diseases - Page 4
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10 Natural, Organic Oils With Huge Health Benefits (Slideshow)
Essential oils have their place secured in a natural beauty routine: They're natural, chemical-free alternatives to everything from traditional cosmetics to potentially toxic fragrances.
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10 Natural, Organic Oils With Huge Health Benefits
Essential oils have their place secured in a natural beauty routine: They're natural, chemical-free alternatives to everything from traditional cosmetics to potentially toxic fragrances. But many can do a lot more than just smell good: While we can't sa
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Alternative Home Remedy: Peppermint Oil to Relieve IBS
We 'Huggers with our aspiring clean, fiber-rich diets probably aren't as likely to experience the daily (yikes!) Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) that some millions of Americans do, according to The New York Times.
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Bacteria: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Slideshow)
With so many products -- from hand soap to dish detergent -- boasting about their antibacterial properties, it's easy to think that all bacteria are bad for you.
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Bacteria: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
With so many products -- from hand soap to dish detergent -- boasting about their antibacterial properties, it's easy to think that all bacteria are bad for you. But the world of bacteria isn't so black and white: some bacteria help, some hurt, and some
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Is Laughter the Best Medicine? For Infertility, It Might Just Be...
We talk a lot about natural medicine and well-being here on TreeHugger. Whether it's herbal remedies for stress or the public health benefits of cycling, there is no doubt that there
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80% Of All US' Antibiotics Given To Farm Animals
Even for someone who follows sustainable agriculture and animal welfare issues, this is pretty astounding: New analysis by the Center for a Livable Future shows that 80% of all antibiotics sold in the United States
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Using Coke Distribution Networks to Get Medicine to Rural Villages
ColaLife has a simple but smart idea: use the distribution networks already established for Coca Cola drinks, which are available in the most remote parts of the world, to get "social products" like oral rehydration salts
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Why (and How) Should we Pick up Dog Waste?
It's a nice day, you're walking along and all of a sudden--squish. You don't even have to look because you know you've really
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Infectious Disease Neckties = Socially Minded Styling
You may have heard that well-worn neckties can be full of germs. This isn't one of those posts. Not directly, at least. It's about Infectious Awareables, a California company which sells silk neckties featuring microscopic close-ups of
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West Nile Virus Rates Higher in Low-Income Neighborhoods
An EPA-funded study found recently that not only is the West Nile virus more prevalent in low-income neighborhoods, but that economic conditions, including personal income, are the greatest predictor of disease
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Miami Catches First Case of Dengue Fever in 50 Years
For the first time in half a century a person in Miami-Dade County, Florida has been diagnosed (and recovered from...) a case of dengue fever that had been acquired locally (Palm Beach Post). This follows 24 cases of locally-caught
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Deadly White Nose Syndrome Keeps Spreading Among New York's Bat Population
New York's brown bat continues to be hard hit by White Nose Syndrome (WNS). WNS is named for the white fungus that eats bat tissues and wakes the bats prematurely from hibernation. WNS has been
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Colgate Accused of Biopiracy of Traditional Indian Toothpaste Recipe
It's the battle of the toothpaste titans: In the red corner we have Colgate Palmolive, the the world's largest producer of toothpaste, who have taken out a patent for an Indian herbal toothpaste. In the blue corner we
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Why You Should Care About Psychedelic Research
Photo: ponyfire Bioneers, the green conference held in San Rafael, California, covers topics that have been marginalized in the past: youth, women, indigenous cultures and even psychedelic drugs. I surprisingly found myself in a session on the current
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Rare Island Jaybirds Vaccinated Against West Nile
Dead crows and bluejays are one thing. Scientists say a much less common bird—the island scrub jay—could be wiped out by West Nile virus. The solution? To vaccinate hundreds of the birds,
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Having Lights On at Night May Be Making You Fatter
Having electric light available at all times during the night is one of those luxuries we have taken for granted in our modern age -- but the results of a new study suggest that a well-lit house at night might actually be making you
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Fighting Obesity, NYC Looks to Regulate the Use of Food Stamps
As part of his ambitious program to fight obesity and diabetes in New York City, Michael Bloomberg is looking to change the rules governing the use of food stamps, to ban their use for the purchase
