Day February 14, 2017

Do you have a nagging concern your diet does not contain enough omega 3s? These essential fatty acids are thought to have a whole range of health benefits You don’t have to pay a fortune to get them, the capsules…

Chronic pelvic pain affects 6 per cent of men and up to 26 per cent of women The device fires ultrasound waves into the ‘saddle area’ to reduce chronic pain It is based on a treatment previously used to treat patients…

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Burn patients need support to transition to burn survivors. That’s why Thereasa Abrams, an assistant professor in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s College of Social Work and a burn survivor herself, has developed an app called the Bridge to help…

Researchers have projected that aggressively lowering blood pressure could help prevent more than 100,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. “The public health impact of adopting intensive treatment in the right patients is enormous,” says Adam Bress, University of Utah…

Never use painkillers to treat back pain, the American College of Physicians declares in new guidelines. Patients should be content with massages, acupuncture, yoga, or superficial heat – even if the pain lingers up to 12 weeks. Only when the…

February is turning out to be a bitterly cold month, with temperatures set to drop as low as -10c in some parts of the UK. But if you can’t seem to get warm despite piling on the layers — and…

Married people have lower stress hormone levels than their single peers This may be due to less of a social stigma as well as better access to healthcare  The hormone cortisol regulates the body’s equilibrium in response to stress Increased levels…

Half a million Britons have glaucoma, which can cause blindness if left untreated.  Last month, Asteroulla Antoniou, 76, a retired dressmaker from London, underwent a new operation to treat it, as she tells LUCY HOLDEN. THE PATIENT My eye problems…

Seeing her six-year-old son sitting in his hospital bed, happily playing with his Lego just three days after a life-changing operation, Kate Lewis was overwhelmed with gratitude. Her own fragile condition all but forgotten, tears of relief fell down her…

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A new study of bone formation from stem cells seeded on 3D-printed bioactive scaffolds combined with different mineral additives showed that some of the scaffold mineral composites induced bone-forming activity better than others. The properties and potential to use these…

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