Schools alone cannot help to prevent childhood obesity, study finds
School-based healthy lifestyle interventions alone are not effective in the fight against childhood obesity, researchers at the University of Birmingham have warned.
Breast cancer treatments may increase the risk of heart disease
Breast cancer patients may be at an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases including heart failure and may benefit from a treatment approach that weighs the benefits of specific therapies against potential damage to the heart, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart…
Stand up. It could help you lose weight.
A 65 kg person would lose 10 kg in four years by standing instead of sitting for six hours a day
Retinal injury caused by laser pointers
In recent years, a substantial increase in the number of eye injuries caused by laser pointers has been observed, especially in children and adolescents. Birtel and coauthors in the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2017; 114: 831–7) report sometimes severe retinal…
Better-educated men = healthier women and mothers in the developing world
Public-health agencies have long stressed the importance of good education in improving the health of women and young mothers in the developing world. Less focus has been put on the men in these women’s lives, however – specifically, how the level of education of partners…
Fitness in childhood linked to healthy lungs in adulthood
Children who are fitter and whose fitness improves during childhood and adolescence have better lung function as young adults, according to a large study published in the European Respiratory Journal [1].
Nutritionally-speaking, soy milk is best plant-based milk
Closest to cow’s milk in range of nutrients it offers
Medications to treat cardiovascular risk factors do not impact erectile function
New study provides reassurance for men taking blood pressure and cholesterol modifying medications, reports the Canadian Journal of Cardiology
Vitamin-deficiency “puts cancer cells into hibernation”
CANCER stem cells can be put “into hibernation” by a little-known drug called diphenyleniodonium – or DPI – according to researchers from the University of Salford, UK.
How very low birth weight affects the brain
Children born with very low birth weights are at an increased risk of cognitive, emotional and behavioral problems throughout their lives. But what exactly happens in the brain to cause these problems?
Premature births linked to changes in mother’s bacteria
National treatment guidelines for women with PPROM were defined the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) A study of hundreds of women, carried out at Imperial College London, found that subtle changes to the bacteria present in the vagina were strongly associated with the…
Cannabidiol may help to reduce seizures for people with treatment-resistant form of epilepsy
Treatment with a pharmaceutical formulation of cannabidiol alongside other anti-epilepsy treatments helped to reduce the number of drop seizures – seizures which involve sudden falls due to loss of muscle tone – in people with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome who did not respond to previous treatment, according…