The intake of antioxidants stemming from foodstuffs, like betacaroteno –the forerunner of Vitamin A, mostly found in vegetables like carrots and squash- and medicinal plants like borage and onagra, help protect the skin from the effects of sunrays and hold back skin aging due to the action of essential oily acids…

Lip carcinoma is a form of oral cancer, a malign tumor usually lodged between the oral cavity and the skin that becomes a transition zone and could lead to major risks, like mouth cancer and skin cancer. Two risk factors are prolonged sun exposure and excessive smoking…

Widely used in research and in multiple medical procedures, stem cells hold lots of advantages when it comes to cardiology. From the standpoint of Prof. Noel Gonzalez, the founding father of heart transplantation in Cuba, stem cells reveal themselves as a highly efficient type of regenerative therapy to treat heart ailments. These cells regenerate new heart vessels and they can be extracted from nearly all…

Once upon a time, tobacco was considered –first by the Indians and then by the Europeans- as a mighty medicinal plant. Today, U.S. researchers at the Thomas Jefferson University used tobacco plants to produce antibodies against rabies virus. The results proved effective in preventing hamsters and mice from catching a number of diseases…