"Lean gene" ups risk of heart disease and diabetes

Researchers from Britain's Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit said that while a so-called "lean gene" was linked to having less body fat

Heart risks lower in men who get enough vitamin D

Men who consume the recommended amount of vitamin D are somewhat less likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke than those who get little of the

French E.coli patients have same strain as in Germany

"The link between the symptoms and consumption of these seeds has so far not been definitively established," the ministry said in a statement issued on Friday.

Want to conceal your age? Don't spit

Dr. Eric Vilain said that if some saliva is found around the butt of a cigarette, scientists could use the technique to tell if the saliva is from a person in their 20's or their 70's.

Arizona death prompts probe for E.coli link

There have been five confirmed cases in the United States of patients who were sickened by the same strain of the bacteria that

New test may predict Alzheimer's early: Study

The findings, released in the journal Neurology, are part of a push to find new ways to diagnose Alzheimer's early, before the disease causes too much harm.

TV and soda: small habits cause weight creep: US study

 

The researchers stressed that the quality of food choices, and not just calories, are key to maintaining a healthy weight.

Don't worry, be happy and live longer: studies

Today's lesson: be happy, live longer. Now science seems to back the glass half-full approach.
A review of more than 160 studies on the connection between a positive state

Healthy discoveries: Study links sugary drinks with high blood pressure

Scientists have linked drinking sugary drinks like fizzy cola and fruit drinks with high blood pressure and say their findings suggest that cutting both sugar and salt intake could help reduce the risk.

Healthy Discoveries: Hot flashes, night sweats tied to heart risks

Women who have hot flashes and night sweats at the start of menopause may be less likely to have a heart attack later in life, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.But women who

Healthy Discoveries: Study seeks to dispel stress myth in IVF treatment

Women trying to get pregnant via IVF or other assisted reproduction techniques do not reduce their chances of success if they are emotionally distressed, according to a large scale analysis

Healthy discoveries: Air pollution may hurt school kids' lungs

Healthy discoveries

Children are anticipation to be decidedly afflicted to the ill furnishings of air pollutants because their airways are abate and their allowed systems beneath developed. 

Healthy discoveries: Mammograms fewer accurate in breast cancer survivors

Healthy discoveries

Cancers detected by symptoms, and not screening, were added than alert as accepted in survivors as well.

Mammography is beneath authentic at spotting breast blight if a woman

Healthy discoveries: Hypo activity fatigue stress and fatigue

Healthy discoveries

Treatment of fatigue, drowsiness and fatigue stress is a state of fatigue or physical fatigue occurs a reaction to real or expected problems in life. Signs of stress increased heart rate and high blood pressure, nervousness, mental, physical inactivity and frequent mistakes in matters of work due to

Healthy discoveries: Hearing problems affiliated to added dementia risk

Healthy discoveries

People who are adamantine of audition accept added allowance of developing dementia as they age, fueling hopes that added use of audition aids ability axis the

Healthy doscoveries: B vitamins found to halve brain shrinkage in old

Healthy discoveries

Daily tablets of large doses of B vitamins can halve the rate of brain shrinkage in elderly people with memory problems and may slow their progression towards

Healthy Discoveries: Cancer drug could prevent blindness in preemies

Healthy discoveries

The blight biologic Avastin could advice anticipate amaurosis in a accumulation of abortive babies who were built-in afore their eyes

Healthy Discoveries: Early day care may promote eczema development

Healthy discoveries

Kids who absorb their ancient years in day affliction may be at college accident of eczema than kids cared for at home, according to a fresh abstraction from Germany.

Healthy Discoveries: Too little sleep raises obesity risk in children: Study

Healthy discoveries

Children aged four and under who get less than 10 hours of sleep a night are nearly twice as likely to be overweight or obese five years later, according to a U.S. study.

Healthy doscoveries: Two gene mutations mark deadly ovarian cancer

Healthy discoveries

Researchers have identified two new genetic mutations that cause a significant number of the hardest-to-treat kinds of ovarian cancer, and say they point to a new "on-off" switch for tumors.