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Whole grain health benefits explained

Whole grain health benefits explained

Scientists report newly discovered compounds that could explain whole grain health benefits. Led by researchers at the University of Finland, whole grain health benefits include...
Could HPV be linked to improving cervical cancer survival rates?

Could HPV be linked to improving cervical cancer survival rates?

Researchers believe that high-risk HPV can be another important analytical marker that can improve cervical cancer survival rates. The occurrence of high-risk human papillomavirus (HrHPV)...
Type 2 diabetes: current services and strategies may be inefficient

Type 2 diabetes: current services and strategies may be inefficient

Studies show that unless social and cultural factors are addressed, healthcare services and public health strategies designed to reduce tackling Type 2 diabetes may...
Fertility in women: psychological stress could massively reduce odds of conception

Fertility in women: psychological stress could reduce odds of conception

New study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, finds that psychological stress has the ability to reduce fertility in women. According to the Boston...
Breast cancer deaths predicted to increase by 2022

Breast cancer deaths predicted to increase by 2022

According a to report conducted by Breast Cancer Now, the number of breast cancer deaths, though currently decreasing, will start to increase by 2022. Right...
China announces 14% surge in HIV and Aids

China announces 14% surge in HIV and Aids

The number of citizens in China with HIV and Aids has reportedly increased by 14% As reported by the BBC, more than 820,000 people are...

Therapies for fibromyalgia may be on the horizon

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and Harvard University, USA, have made a groundbreaking step towards finding new therapies for fibromyalgia. Therapies for fibromyalgia have been...
Have scientists found a way of halting and reverting Neurodegeneration?

Have scientists found a way of halting and reversing neurodegeneration?

Researchers have identified a molecule with the capabilities of halting and reversing neurodegeneration typically caused by Parkinson’s disease. A scientific collaboration led by researchers at...
Identifying pancreatic cancer up to three years early 

Could pancreatic cancer be blocked?

Researchers have developed a new drug that has the ability to prevent pancreatic cancer growth and potentially block the cancer cells from growing. The study,...
Obesity to overtake smoking as biggest preventable cause of cancer in the UK

Obesity to overtake smoking as biggest preventable cause of cancer in the UK

According to Cancer Research UK, obesity is predicted to surpass smoking as the biggest preventable cause of cancer in the UK for women by...
Scandal NHS patients given contaminated blood

Scandal: NHS patients given contaminated blood

Public inquiry has begun regarding how thousands of NHS patients were given blood products infected with hepatitis and HIV during the 1970s and 1980s,...
Harmonizing birth defects and cancer research uncovers fine balance between cell survival and death

Harmonising birth defects and cancer: research uncovers fine balance between cell survival and death

A recent study suggests that it is important to strike a healthy balance between too much cell death, which can lead to developmental abnormalities...
WHO reports harmful use of alcohol causes more than 5% of the global disease burden

WHO reports: harmful use of alcohol causes more than 5% of the global disease...

More than three million people died because of damaging use of alcohol in 2016, according to a report released by WHO today. Overall, the...
The components behind cognitive decline in type 2 diabetes

The components behind cognitive decline in Type 2 diabetes

In a recent diabetic medicine study, imaging tests discovered that changes in white matter regions of the brain, indicative of small vessel disease, are...
Consuming whole grain foods can effectively prevent type 2 diabetes

Consuming whole grain foods can effectively prevent Type 2 diabetes

Studies have indicated that individuals who eat any type of whole grain foods are less susceptible to developing Type 2 diabetes. Researchers at Chalmers University...
Detecting pancreatic cancer at the earliest stages

A way of detecting pancreatic cancer at its earliest stages has been found

Previously, detecting pancreatic cancer has been proven to be difficult and is usually diagnosed very late in the disease progression. However, a newly developed...
Alzheimer's disease treatment: Amyloid β-protein could be making a comeback

Alzheimer’s disease treatment: Amyloid β-protein could be making a comeback

For many years, amyloid β-protein has been a promising therapeutic target, but the study results have been disappointing. New studies have now shown these...
Could paracetamol use in infancy be a cause of asthma

Could paracetamol use in infancy be a cause of asthma?

Specific variants in the GST genes seem to play a role in greater susceptibility to lung problems and possibly be a cause of asthma...
NHS to provide free targeted treatment for melanoma cancer

NHS to provide free targeted treatment for melanoma cancer

Hundreds of patients with melanoma cancer, a type of aggressive skin disease, are to be provided with targeted therapy by the NHS in England...
Evidence soot from polluted air is reaching the placenta

Evidence: soot from polluted air is reaching the placenta

New research presents evidence of tiny carbon particles, found in polluted air, discovered in the placenta of London mothers. The European Respiratory Society International Congress,...

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