Energy drinks have caused three Canadian teenagers to die and have had serious side effects on 35 other Canadians since 2003, Health Canada documents show.The three male teens, two 15-year-olds and an 18-year-old, died after drinking Red Bull, The Toronto Star reported. Red Bull also appears in more side-effect reports than any other similar product.Health Canada and the energy drink companies said side-effect reports show only a suspected connection between a product and side effect but no medi

The number of people with alcohol-induced psychiatric disorders is growing, particularly in men in their 60s.According to the National Health Insurance Corporation, the number of patients with mental illnesses brought on by excessive drinking has increased from 66,196 in 2007 to 78,357 in 2011 on the annual average of 4.3 percent. Men in their 60s had the highest prevalence rate of alcoholic mental disease with 583 per 100,000 people. About 64,000 men suffered from psychiatric disorder due to ex

Blood pressure tends to drop during the summer and increase again in October when the weather gets colder. When the atmospheric temperature decreases, we produce less sweat and our peripheral vessels constrict, increasing the resistance to blood flow. During the winter, the systolic blood pressure increases by 7mmHg and the diastolic blood pressure increases by 3mmHg on average. This change in blood pressure with different atmospheric temperature is more significant in people with hypertension t

Health officials all around the world have introduced a variety of policies to reduce smoking rates: warning labels and graphic, almost grotesque images on cigarette packs, campaigns, and many countries including South Korea have banned or are pushing to ban smoking in public places.One researcher from Australia, however, has gone so far as to say people should carry a license if they want to buy cigarettes.Simon Chapman, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney, said it is possi

An international report released by the Canadian Cancer Society ranked Australia for best cigarette package health warnings, officials say.The report ranked 198 countries and jurisdictions on the size of their health warnings on cigarette packages. Australia led all the countries with more than 82 percent of their cigarette packages covered with health warnings, followed by: 80 percent in Uruguay, 80 percent in Sri Lanka, 75 percent in Canada and 75 percent in Brunei. The report was released at

A study on mice has suggested that eating at night can affect metabolism and cause weight gain.“A relatively modest shift in food consumption into what is normally the rest period for mice can favor energy storage,” said Georgios Paschos from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, who participated in the research.According to the study, mice that had the “clock gene” ARNTL removed from them tend to eat in the daytime instead of at night, which is unusual because mice

People are happier when a self-benefiting option is imposed upon them because it frees them from having to take responsibility for the outcome, U.S. psychologists have found. Jonathan Bermand and Debrah Small of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania speculated that removing an individuals’ sense of agency would remove their feeling of responsibility for an outcome, leaving them free to enjoy their own interests without feeling selfish.The two scientists conducted a laboratory stud

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is caused by bacteria, or more uncommonly viruses, infecting the reproductive organs. It is a broad term that includes endometritis, salpingitis, perioophorosalpingitis, and abscess in the ovaries or pelvic peritonitis caused by abscess in the ovaries. Pelvic inflammatory disease is often caused by sexually transmitted infections such as gonorrhea and trachomatis. Other anaerobic bacteria such as vaginalis, which cause bacterial vaginosis, can also lead to pelvi