Women who regularly get Botox treatments seeking youth are becoming immune to the injection, even forming antibodies to it, a report said.German researchers published a paper in the Journal of Neural Transmission, saying that one out of 200 Botox patients come to develop antibodies which lead to ineffective results. More negative results were found among those who took a larger dose of injection than others due to medical reasons such as treating spasms or sweating. Other scientists from Britis

Rats forced to exercise in a study were protected against stress and anxiety the same as rats who ran without being forced, U.S. researchers say.Benjamin Greenwood, an assistant research professor in University of Colorado at Boulder, said there was a question whether people reap the same mental benefits of exercise if they are forced to do -- as is common among high school, college and professional athletes, members of the military or those who have been prescribed an exercise regimen by their

Viewing sexually explicit material via the Internet, videos and magazines may affect teen and adult sex behavior but less than thought, Danish researchers say.Gert Martin Hald of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and colleagues conducted an online survey of 4,600 people ages 15-25, who lived in The Netherlands.The survey revealed 88 percent of males and 45 percent of females said they watched sexually explicit material via the Internet, magazines, videos, television or other media in the p

There are two types of sweat glands ― the apocrine glands that produce odor, and the eccrine glands that produce ordinary sweat. Osmidrosis refers to over-secretion of the apocrine glands in the axillary region, or the armpit, causing an unpleasant underarm odor. 1. Sweat glandsApocrine glands are distributed over the skin of the body from 4-5 months after birth, and gradually disappear, leaving behind those in only a few places such as the axilla, external auditory canal, areola, around the nav

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One out of 5 Korean men is projected to die of an illness linked to smoking, according to research by the state-run Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs. The institute unveiled the study Thursday as the Ministry of Health and Welfare pushes to raise prices of cigarettes to help smokers kick the habit. The research claimed that 79,917, or 21.6 percent, of about 370,000 high school seniors in 2010 were likely to die of smoking-related illness by age 85.It added that 26.9 percent of adults

We find it hard to fall asleep when we travel to the United States or Europe, waking up often during the night. This leads to fatigue during the day, drowsiness, decreased appetite and concentration. Such symptoms are referred to as “jet lag,” and are caused by the biological clock in the hypothalamus of the brain. The biological clock set in Korea does not quickly adjust to the time zone in another country. It usually takes one day to adjust for one hour of time difference. For example, in orde

There is a joke that if an intelligent person thinks too much they develop gray hair, while a less intelligent person who thinks too much becomes bald. There is a legend that when Marie Antoinette, the wife of Louis XVI of France failed to evacuate and was due to be executed, she developed gray hair in just one night of mental suffering. However, does thinking too much really lead to the development of gray hair?Gray hairs are a symptom of aging. Most people start going gray in their 40s, but so