Although having acne breakouts is normal, especially for teens, people can’t still help but search for ways on how to clear up acne. Some are finding ways on how to treat it inexpensively while others really saves enough money so that they can pay for the soothing expensive facial skin care which can be availed [...]
Older people who follow healthy diets may live longer, a study suggests. Research in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association found those who ate a low-fat diet that contained lots of fruit and vegetables lowered their risk of dying over 10 years. The study compared the diets of 2,500 US adults aged 70 to [...]
Almost every woman is blessed with the capacity to bear a child at least once in her lifetime. It is considered to be one of the greatest gifts that a woman can give her husband. Bearing a child would make the couple more closer together, and at this certain point in their lives they can [...]
Liberal Catholics, AIDS activists and health officials on Sunday welcomed Pope Benedict’s comments that using condoms may sometimes be justified to stop the spread of the disease.
A daily aspirin tablet may help prevent bowel cancer, a study suggests. Oxford University found it cut cases by a quarter and deaths by more than a third in a review of 14,000 patients. Aspirins are already widely used to help protect people against strokes and heart problems, although many healthy middle-aged people do not [...]
A “molecular switch” that can prevent Huntington’s disease from developing has been found in mice. A US study concluded the mutated huntingtin protein, which causes the disease, could be stopped in its tracks by a subtle chemical modification. It is hoped the work could lead to much-needed treatments for the inherited disorder. The study, by [...]
Scientists have unlocked the entire genetic code of two of the most common cancers – skin and lung – a move they say could revolutionise cancer care. Not only will the cancer maps pave the way for blood tests to spot tumours far earlier, they will also yield new drug targets, says the Wellcome Trust [...]
Post menopausal women who take anti-depressants face a small – but statistically significant – increased risk of a stroke, research suggests. The US study was based on 136,293 women aged 50 to 79, who were followed for an average of six years. Anti-depressant users were 45% more likely to have a stroke than women not [...]
UK cities should have more 20mph speed zones, as they have cut road injuries by over 40% in London, a study claims. In particular the number of children killed or seriously injured has been halved over the past 15 years, the British Medical Journal reported. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine study estimates [...]
Scientists are to test if boosting the immune system can prevent the return of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma. The disease – a cancer of developing nervous system tissue – is most often found in under-fives and accounts for about a sixth of child cancer deaths. The European trial builds on early promising results from a [...]
Children who battle and survive cancer run a higher risk of heart problems and must be closely screened, say experts. Aggressive cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiotherapy can harm the heart, multiplying the patient’s death risk by seven, data shows. UK guidelines recommend routine heart trace checks every five years. But many survivors currently receive [...]
Fresh evidence adds weight to suggestions that loneliness makes cancer both more likely and deadly. Work in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science shows social isolation tips the odds in favour of aggressive cancer growth. Rodents kept alone developed more tumours – and tumours of a more deadly type – than rats living as [...]