Elderly people who were treated by female doctors in the hospital had significantly better survival rates and fewer readmissions than those treated by male doctors, said a US study Monday. The findings in the Journal…
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More Africans at risk of chronic illness: WHO
City life and its modern trappings have brought bad habits to developing African nations that will see more die of chronic illness than infectious diseases by 2030, a study showed Tuesday. A World Health Organization…
#TransformYourLife: Everything you need to know about nutrition
Did you know that to lose weight, you MUST eat fewer calories than your body uses? Calories are the amount of energy in the food you eat. Some foods have more calories than others. Eating…
Drug gives lung cancer patients four extra months
Most lung cancer patients survived four months longer on an immunotherapy drug than those treated with chemotherapy, according to trial results published on Monday. Importantly, they also experienced fewer side-effects, researchers reported in The Lancet…
Virus found in child mummy could rewrite smallpox history
The discovery of smallpox DNA in a 17th century child mummy may shorten the timeline of the deadly infectious disease’s history, according to a study published Thursday. Specimens of the smallpox-causing variola virus now exist…
UK bans online ads for junk food targeting children
Britain will ban junk food ads aimed at children from both print and social media from next year, the advertising rules watchdog said Thursday, a move welcomed by campaigners against child obesity. The new rules,…
Preventing cancer spread: mouse study points to fat
Spanish scientists announced Wednesday they may have identified a way to stop cancer from spreading, at least in mice, and said it could be linked to eating fat. Writing in the journal Nature, the team…
Could flickering light treat Alzheimer’s?
Scientists have used flickering LED lights to shrink, in mouse brains, the beta amyloid plaques associated with Alzheimer’s Disease in humans, they reported on Wednesday. While too early to say if this could translate into…
The weight loss secret no-one knows
Originally published on NutriEats.com We are constantly being told to cut out carbohydrates to loose weight but this is the worst mistake you could make, it is actually counterproductive! Here is a little secret…
DNA offers hard evidence of malaria in Roman Empire
A DNA analysis of 2,000-year-old teeth unearthed from an Italian graveyard has offered hard evidence that malaria existed during the Roman Empire, researchers said Monday. The findings are based on mitochondrial DNA — genetic material…