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Love the sun

...ot absorb as much ultraviolet B as light skin, and people who wear clothing that covers all their skin are not exposed to the sun. Of the 82 women screened, 66 (80 per cent) recorded vitamin D levels below the ideal level. Women who were both dark-skinned and consistently covered (including head, arms an...

Poor diet among smokers

... for up to 24 per cent of lung cancer cases. Where people are exposed to passive smoking - usually because t... University, showed in their new survey, that many people living with smokers are compounding the problem of passive smoking by eating a poor diet. Nonsmoking...

Mushroom and muscle loss

...udy in The New England Journal of Medicine, twelve people were hospitalized for severe weakness and muscle loss after eating the mushrooms, and three of them died, wrote Dr. Regis Bedry of the poison center of University Hospital Pellegrin in Bordeaux, France.Bedry said he confirmed the mushroom's toxicity ...

The cocaine danger

...New Scientist reports this week that the number of people admitted to US hospitals with cocaine related emer...l in London said he suspected up to 10 per cent of people reporting to hospital with chest pains had used cocaine....

Excessive use of antibiotics for sore throat

...e throat is the second most common symptom sending people to their doctor. Generally a sore throat is caused by a virus and will not respond to antibiotics. But researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention in Palo Alto, California, have found that ...

Tracing oesophagal cancer

...ding from the throat to the stomach - affects 5000 people a year in the UK, making it the eighth most common...s that should be removed. The research involved 40 people with oesophagal cancer - and in 90% of cases, the new diagnostic technique did indicate where the ca...

The tall gene

...ble for bones fusing over at the ends, which stops people growing. A person's height depends on both genetic and environmental influences. Previous studies have identified the aromatase gene and the Y chromosome gene as height genes in men who are very tall or very short, but the Melbourne study shows the...

Wonder drug - could end in disaster

Prozac and drugs like it could be making healthy people with no history of mental illness feel suicidal. Prozac is prescribed to more than 38 million people world-wide, and has been one of the pharmaceutical industries biggest success stories of recent year...

Dementia - a global problem

...pulation (in other words, most research is done on people in the affluent West).// The Group has found that people with dementia are well-cared for by their families, but there are high rates of depression among car...

A poke to cure your snore

...ave developed a cheap, pain-free injection to stop people snoring. Snoring occurs when airflow vibrates across the soft palate tissue which becomes relaxed during sleep.The "snoreplasty" procedure involves injecting a chemical called tetradecyl sulphate into the fleshy soft palate at the back of the throat....

Blood clots likely in long travel

...an 130 million passengers from 145 countries.Among people travelling less than 5000km, this gave a rate of 0.01 cases of embolism per million. The rate rose to 1.5 cases per million for those travelling more than 5000km. Dr Baker was recently involved in designing a study to be conducted by the Australasi...

Is Obesity a risk factor?

...e, it is treatable with drugs.Doctors often advise people with heart failure to lose weight if they are obese. Researchers in Texas have surveyed 1000 people with heart failure and found that overweight and obesity are not obstacles to survival - indeed, car...

Pollution could be a risk

...r New York and Washington, psychiatrists warn that people will start to feel the full psychological impact of the disaster. Keeping busy and trying to get the cities back to normal keeps anxiety and grief at bay. And the sheer scale of the tragedy has engendered a kind of emotional numbness in many but this...

Psychological consequence of terrorist attacks

...r New York and Washington, psychiatrists warn that people will start to feel the full psychological impact of the disaster. Keeping busy and trying to get the cities back to normal keeps anxiety and grief at bay. And the sheer scale of the tragedy has engendered a kind of emotional numbness in many but this...

Sleeping sickness - a silent killer

...ease is carried by the Tsetse fly. Some 60 million people living in Tsetse fly-endemic areas of west and cen... horses could not survive in parts of Africa. But people had been dying from the bite of the Tsetse fly for a long time before that, and are still dying toda...

Long travel increase pulmonary embolism

...where the incidence was just 0.01 per million. For people travelling more than 10,000 kilometres, the risk rose to 4.8 cases per million. The message is, if you're going on a really long flight, take medical advice on the potential risks of PE....

Vitamin C for the heart

...min C blood levels nearly twice as low as those in people without PAD....

Quit Smoking

...have shown that despite treatment advances to help people stop smoking, 70% to 80% of smokers who stop relap...ld not be taken by pregnant or lactating women, or people who have epilepsy or anorexia or are alcoholics....

Gene therapy restores sight

...ifying the exact genetic defect for LCA."Different people with LCA have defects in different genes, or different parts of the same gene, and this varies from one continent to another," he said. He was confident, nevertheless, that geneticists could achieve this....

No allergy at all !

"Millions of people suffer unnecessarily because they really don't have allergies," said Sheryl Szeinbach, a study co-author and a professor of pharmacy at Ohio State University. "They're often prescribed antihistamines that don't help the problem." A recent study of 2...

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