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If asked, most people would probably say that face can convey a fairly limited number of emotions. Researchers have long believed that the face can only make six expressions – happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear and disgust. In fact, the ...

In the United States, we generally assume that the food that we eat won’t get us sick. To be sure, the next meal you eat probably won’t be laced with disease-causing bacteria. However, food borne illnesses are hardly uncommon. In ...

As we age, one of the major barometer’s of a person’s health is their level of LDL cholesterol. Known as the “bad” type of cholesterol, high LDL readings are generally associated with an increased risk of heart disease, heart attack ...

People associate printers with things like photographs and office documents, but can you imagine special printers used to produce physical replicas of body parts? That wasn’t a typo – there may come a time when doctors are able to print ...

A lot of people like to bake for a hobby, and even more love to munch on baked treats. As appealing as baked items might be to your taste buds, there’s no denying that a lot of these items have ...

It’s common knowledge that eggs can be found right next to cheese, yogurt and other refrigerated dairy products at the supermarket. Well, that’s the case in the United States, anyway. Surprising as it might sound, eggs sold in many European ...

It would be a tad of an understatement to say the heart is a key part of the body. A healthy heart is necessary for a healthy body, as problems that develop within this organ are often life-threatening. Given this ...

Fried foods are bad for you. We all know that. Many have observed, however, that the impact of these foods tends to vary from person to person; some put on weight relatively quickly, whereas others appear almost immune to their ...

Surgeons generally use the same types of tools when operating on patients; this list includes scissors, forceps, retractors and scalpels. Of course, the practice of surgery has evolved significantly over the years, and with it the tools used to mend ...

You’ve no doubt heard about people hitting a so-called “mid life crisis.” Generally speaking, this term is used to describe a period of time when a person is greatly dissatisfied with his or her life. There has long been a ...