A new study provides yet more evidence that when it comes to alcohol and health, moderation is key. While women who drank were at lower risk of having a non-fatal heart attack than their peers who abstained from alcohol, getting drunk once a month or more sharply increased their risk, Dr. Joan M. Dorn of [...]
A majority of adults are obese or overweight in most European Union nations and kids increasingly contributing to make Europe a fat continent, the EU’s top public health official said Wednesday. “The numbers are frightening,” said EU Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou. Bad diets based on fatty and sweet ingredients combined with physical laziness by now [...]
Five-year project aims to improve car crash, cardiac, other treatments WASHINGTON — The federal government is undertaking the most ambitious set of studies ever mounted under a controversial arrangement that allows researchers to conduct some kinds of medical experiments without first getting the patients’ permission. The $50 million, five-year project, which will involve more than [...]
Expert links additive to cell damage A new health scare erupted over soft drinks last night amid evidence they may cause serious cell damage. Research from a British university suggests a common preservative found in drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA. The problem – [...]
Could magnets make the mind grow stronger? In mice at least, stimulating the brain with a magnetic coil appears to promote the growth of new neurons in areas associated with learning and memory. If the effect is confirmed in humans, it might open up new ways of treating age-related memory decline and diseases like Alzheimer’s.
Police arrested the owner of a private hospital in eastern Pakistan and three doctors after they were implicated in the illegal trade and transplant of kidneys, police said Saturday. The arrests were made in overnight raids at two private hospitals in Lahore, said Tasaddaq Hussain, a police investigator. He said the doctors were being held [...]
New York, NY: Experienced marijuana users perform tasks as accurately after having smoked cannabis as they do sober, according to clinical trial data published in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. Investigators at New York State’s Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University assessed the impact of acute cannabis intoxication on the decision-making abilities of 36 [...]
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — The psychologist who gave birth to twin boys at age 60 said Thursday she was on a mission to let women know they have choices. “It’s really basically about women and empowerment,” Frieda Birnbaum told NBC’s Today show. Birnbaum, who underwent in-vitro fertilization last year at a South African clinic that [...]
Cornea transplants return some sight A British Columbia teenager’s dream trip to Africa turned into a nightmare when bacteria began eating her eyes. Trasey Plouffe, 18, lost her sight three weeks ago and nearly had to have her right eye removed after bacteria destroyed both her corneas. “I felt like someone had glass and was [...]
Australia’s Aborigines die more than 17 years earlier than the rest of the population because of “institutionalised racism” in the health system, the country’s top medical body said Tuesday. The average lifespan of modern Aborigines is currently the same as that of non-indigenous Australians in the 1920s, the Australian Medical Association (AMA) said in a [...]
