Health

KUALA LUMPUR (May 9, 2012): Siew Bee (not her real name) has a five-year-old son who had contracted a bacterial lung infection when he was two years old.

After a long hospital stay, doctors decided that the boy could go home, but he needed to have an 'oxygen concentrator' machine as well as an oxygen tank to use at home.

THE PROSTATE is a walnut-sized gland located beneath the bladder of males and it surrounds the upper part of the urethra, which is the tube that carries urine from the bladder.

Prostate function is regulated essentially by hormones.

Adenocarcinoma is the primary type of prostate cancer, which can develop with little or no symptoms especially during its early stages.

MODERATE exercise is tied to greater success among women trying to get pregnant, but those who work out vigorously take longer to conceive, an international study has found.

“This study is the first to find that the effect of physical activity on fertility varied by body mass index,” said lead author Lauren Wise, a reproductive epidemiologist at Boston University.

WASHINGTON (April 26, 2012): Women who eat plenty of blueberries and strawberries experience slower mental decline with age than women who consume fewer of the flavonoid-rich fruits, a US study said Thursday.

Based on a survey of more than 16,000 women who filled out regular questionnaires on their health habits from 1976 through 2001, the findings showed that those who ate the