Are you wearing glasses now? Have you ever thought of ditching your glasses with Lasik? Afraid of the side effects?

Well, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are doing some studies to find out how successful lasik is and whether there is a need to review the guidelines and advice for it.

Here are the details:

Lasik - A timely Review

Boy or Girl may depend on Mom's eating habit

This interesting preliminary report shows that a high calorie intake at the time of conception may favour mom getting a boy rather than a girl. The researchers don't know why. It's just an observation and more studies need to be done to verify this findings.

Read the report here:

Boy or Girl may depend on mom's eating habit

Fasting Before Chemotherapy Protects Healthy Cells

A recent study revealed an interesting phenomena with fasting for those patients going for chemotherapy for cancer treatment. In their study with mice, fasting 2 days before high dose chemotherapy actually confers protection to the healthy cells.

For more details, click here.

New Screening Tests for Colon Cancer

The American Cancer Association recently recommended 2 additional tests to the existing colon cancer screening armaments. Besides colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy and occult blood test of the stool, we now have virtual colonoscopy and detection of mutated DNA shed from tumours into the stool.

Click here for all the details

Elect a Healthy Government

It's that time of year again to elect a new government for another 5 years. With so many things going on, this sure looks like an interesting election looming.

Want to know your status as a voter? Go here to find out.

Study Links Stress to Cervical Cancer

Stress has already been identified as a cause of many illnesses such as hypertension, heart attack, peptic ulcer and even backache. Now another study has linked stress to cervical cancer.

So Dr. Herbert Benson was right all along when he emphasized that the cause of most modern diseases can be traced back to stress.

For more information, go to Study links stress to cervical cancer

Stay Healthier with Regular Sex

No time to exercise? Feeling old? Thinking of ways to stay healthy and prevent illnesses? Here's an interesting solution for you - SEX!

The British Government's NHS Direct advocates "sexercise" in place of exercise to stay healthy and young. Here's the deal...

Get more than zeds in bed

Warning: Avoid cough and cold medicine for toddlers less than 2 years old

Here's the latest in a series of warnings from FDA in USA regarding the use of cough and cold syrups for children below 2 years old due to certain side-effects:

Avoid cough and cold medicine for less than 2 year olds

Healthy Living can add 14 Years to Life

Living a healthy lifestyle by exercising regularly, taking 5 servings of vegetables and fruits a day, no smoking and drinking only a small amount of alcohol can add as much as 14 years to your life.

Here is the report:

Healthy living adds 14 years to life

A Little Alcohol Can Be Healthy

With regards to heart attacks, physically active people are less likely to have one compared to those who are inactive. However, drinking small amount of alcohol (1 - 14 units per week) can confer even more protection to your heart.

Here is the full report:

A little alcohol can be healthy

Heart Attack links to Anxiety and Worry

We are finding more and more links between physical illnesses and psychological state of health. Most of them point to negative emotions affecting our physical health negatively. Truly, our diseases are due to our dis-ease within.

Here's another article that links heart attacks with anxiety and worry.

Anxiety links to heart attacks

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Here's wishing you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas and a great 2008! Happy holidays!

Seven Medical Myths Exposed

Here's an interesting article on beliefs and their effects on us, and the importance of being critical in our thinking.

7 Medical Myths exposed

Merdeka Special!

In conjunction with the upcoming National Day celebration, our clinic is offering a special blood test promotion. This promotion is only for the month of August 2007, and is different from our usual blood tests.

For more information, please contact us.

And here are some related articles:

1. Importance of Health Screening
2. Achieving Optimum Health
3. Preventive Guide

Closed for National Day

Our clinic will be closed from 31 August to 2 September 2007 due to the National Day celebration. We wish all our clients a very happy and stress-free holidays!

Some Guidelines

Here are some simple guidelines on the management and control of cholesterol and diabetes mellitus.