Day October 25, 2016

Clare Balding has revealed her secret to staying physically fit during her gruelling Olympic broadcasting schedule – walking Clare Balding has revealed her secret to staying mentally and physically fit enough to cope with her gruelling broadcasting schedule during the…

In 2015, 10,901 women had twins, 169 triplets and three quads and above In past, women aged over 45 drove the rise in multiple births, due to IVF  Women aged 25 to 29 are now helping to nudge up the…

Researchers from Yale-NUS College have partnered with researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and SingHealth Group to develop a novel Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) worm strain which expresses an amyloid beta protein fragment involved in the development of…

Images and references to alcohol and tobacco in popular video games may be influencing UK teens who play the games and the age restriction system is not working, according to a new study. Experts from the UK Centre for Tobacco…

It could be argued that no science is more valuable to us than that which helps to ensure the survival of our species by solving the problems that challenge it. For many years, two Kent State University researchers in the…

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An international study, led by the University of Southampton, shows the UK and France experience the highest number of malaria cases imported from other countries. Research led by WorldPop, based at the University, examined and mapped the movement of the…

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The majority of women who chose nitrous oxide (laughing gas) to manage labor pain, ultimately decide to have an epidural, according to new research presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2016 annual meeting. Researchers found nitrous oxide provided limited pain relief, with…

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

Chemosynthetic symbionts are bacteria living inside or on the surface of animals, supplying their host with food that would otherwise be unavailable. It has long been known that these bacteria fix carbon and convert it into organic forms. Microbiologist Jillian…

Heavy drinking can cause brain changes that make you want to drink more. Credit: www.shutterstock.com About 17 million adults and more than 850,000 adolescents had some problems with alcohol in the United States in 2012. Long-term alcohol misuse could harm…

Traffic fumes and noise both increase likelihood of hypertension  This can result in a higher risk of having a heart attack or a stroke  Researchers in five countries tracked 41,000 people for nine years  By Ben Spencer Medical Correspondent For…

Umbrella procedure aimed at people with obstructive sleep apnoea (OPA) OPA is linked to heart defect which causes a hole failing to close at birth Operation uses a catheter which is guided through blood vessels to heart Umbrellas are opened…

A study has found that children eat sugary cereals after watching adverts One in five children entering primary school is now overweight or obese Study found the more adverts they see, the more sugary cereals they eat By Stephen Adams,…

Men better off in the garden than doing housework says Dutch research The news might not be very popular – but the benefit is only seen in women Difference might be because women do more domestic work than men do…

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is an inherited disorder that leads to a gradual loss of motor neurons and, eventually, paralysis. The condition is caused by genetic mutations that disrupts cells’ energy factories, called mitochondria. No drugs are available to slow or stop…

America’s opioid drug epidemic has struck hard in Michigan. But now, a team from the University of Michigan is striking back at a key factor: opioid prescriptions for patients before and after surgery. With a new $1.4 million per year,…

Hospital admission rates are 55 per cent higher in some areas than in others because of a greater prevalence of conditions such as diabetes, alcoholism, dementia and socioeconomic deprivation.  According to research published today, those admission rates could be reduced…

Drinking highly caffeinated alcoholic beverages triggers changes in the adolescent brain similar to taking cocaine, and the consequences last into adulthood as an altered ability to deal with rewarding substances, according to a Purdue University study. Richard van Rijn, an…

A novel telemedicine speech therapy program for people with language problems due to dementia significantly improved their ability to recall words they had “lost,” reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. One woman could once again identify the tulips and daffodils…

One of the frustrations of fighting malaria is that mosquitoes evolve resistance to the insecticides used to kill them. Now researchers from Exeter University in the United Kingdom and the University of California, Berkeley, propose using insect repellents along with…

At Medica 2016, SYMILA, the Fraunhofer Application Center at Hamm, will demo a telemedicine Internet portal for diabetics, which was implemented on behalf of DITG – Deutsches Institut für Telemedizin und Gesundheitsförderung. The portal, centerpiece of an E-Health intervention system,…