Common garden peas could be used to help people fight high blood pressure and chronic kidney disease, researchers have discovered. Peas have long been recognized as a ’superfood’ because they are loaded with fibers and vitamins.
But now scientists have uncovered a protein in garden peas that reduced blood pressure in rats by 20%. “In people [...]

Researchers have found that pupils that consume junk food do not do as well academically that pupils that stick to healthier diets.
The medical study surveyed over 5 thousand 10- to 11-year-old students how many times per week they ate pre-prepared “fast food.” Dr Kerri Tobin (Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University) stated that the children were then administered [...]

The World Research Foundation is very pleased to present the Los Angeles Premiere of a new documentary:
Mary Pickford, The Muse of the Movies
In Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Mary Pickford in Film
Friday, August 28, 2009
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7:00 PM – VIP Reception with Hors d’oeuvres & Wine / [...]

The Badianus Manuscript, (Codex Barberini, Latin 241) an Aztec Herbal of 1552, was discovered at the Vatican Library in 1929 by Professor Charles U. Clark.
  
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The manuscript was bound in 16th century crimson velvet and is the earliest treatise on Mexican medicinal plants and native remedies which has ever come down [...]

Medical research has come a long way, and as a result, people live much longer than they used to. While no one can argue that expanding the average person’s lifespan is good, many folks are not enjoying the quality of life that we would hope as they get older. Many of the elderly have chronic [...]

At one time, long ago in our history, medicine was considered an art and not just a profession. To be a physician was a noble and sacred task. During the time of the ancient Greeks we find sacred temples of healing and the physician priests accomplished wonderful and profound healings.
In more modern times, if we [...]