A new study — conducted by researchers at Stanford University in California — reveals that common foods can cause blood sugar spikes in otherwise healthy people. Paying closer attention to these spikes could prevent diabetes and some of its complications. Blood sugar, or glucose, is the main sugar found in your blood.

Health Insurance is pretty much a necessity – helping you deal with all manner of unforeseen health complications. Insurance companies, in a bid to lure customers, come out with a slew of attractive offers. But there are a number of health insurance ‘secrets’ that most consumers are not privy to.

Shopping can be rewarding or maddening. We buy stuff we need. We buy stuff we want. And we buy stuff we neither need nor want, not always knowing why. The search for an answer to that question― why? ―led me on a three-year fact-finding odyssey in which I delved into the cultural, social, and psychological aspects of how Americans shop.

You spend about one third of your day” in bed, said Terry Cralle, a registered nurse who also a certified clinical sleep educator and consultant for the American Sleep Apnea Association, a well as director of Business Development for the Woodlands Sleep Evaluation Center in The Woodlands, Texas. If you’re sleeping on a mattress that’s worn out or needs to be replaced, you could be robbing yourself of restorative, restful sleep.

In the last few months, we have observed an incessant rise in the US Dollar. The present exchange rate of USD to Rupee has crossed 74 which is the all-time low. At the beginning of this year, this rate was 63.34 INR. Analysts suggest the Rupee is expected to remain under pressure in the near future owing to high crude oil prices and thus strengthen the US Dollar.

Affecting the white cells of the body, follicular lymphoma is a type of blood cancer that minimizes the capability of fighting infections in the body. There are two variants of lymphoma, non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin’s and the classification depends on the type of white blood cells that are affected. The follicular lymphoma is also known as non-Hodgkin lymphoma and cure rate of this type of health condition is next to null.