Silky Smooth Legs With Intuition® Naturals Sensitive Care®, the latest offering from Schick®, removal of unsightly hair is a breeze and oh-so- liberating for your skin. The hypo-allergenic, fragrance-free Skin Conditioning Solid™ ensures that even sensitive skin is left less irritated and the skin is noticeably softer after shaving. This comes from the benefits of [...]
Keep It Clean and Comfortable After the initial shock and pain of getting wounded comes the worst part, dressing your wound. Wound dressings are one of the most important parts of wound care. It is necessary to take extra care to clean your wound before simply covering it. If you’re not very careful, the wound [...]
Getting a Handle on Cough with Phlegm - By Maripet L. Poso You haven’t experienced being totally embarrassed until you have coughed suddenly, with phlegm, in front of many people, in the middle of a quiet room, and with no exit near you. Coughing is our body’s natural way to keep our airways clear. But heavy [...]
Resistance Not Futile - By Dr Daniel Wai Our body uses sugar as fuel, and insulin is the hormone that brings sugar and fat from the blood into the cells, or the smallest units of function, in our body. If our body is a car, and sugar and fat are like petrol, insulin is like the [...]
Islandwide Talentime contest for denture wearers GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Love 97.2FM recently launched the nationwide Polident Love 97.2FM Star Talentime (Talentime) contest to draw older Singaporeans out of their shell, as well as get denture wearers amongst them, to participate without fear that their dentures will come loose when they sing. Those with loose dentures [...]
By Maripet L. Poso Unllike our waistline, the TV, or pizza crust, our hair is one of the things we don’t want to see getting thin. Each person typically has around 100,000 to 150,000 hairs on their head. The normal cycle of hair growth lasts for two to three years. Each hair grows approximately 1cm [...]
Our skin often reflects our health, be it good or bad. Because of this, our brain is wired to prefer people with good skin. It’s therefore not surprising that good skin is often associated with beauty. How important is skin to our health? Besides providing an outer covering, our skin is the main protective layer of [...]
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disorder that may affect many tissues and organs, but principally attacks synovial joints. The process produces an inflammatory response of the synovium (synovitis) secondary to hyperplasia of synovial cells, excess synovial fluid, and the development of pannus in the synovium. The pathology of the disease process often leads to the destruction of articular cartilage and ankylosis of the [...]
