Category: Education
Western diet may reduce survival odds for prostate cancer
Men with prostate cancer who eat a so-called Western diet heavy in red meat, cheese and sugary treats may be more likely to die of their disease than those who consume mostly plants, whole grains and fish, a US study […]
How to cope with eczema
Operations manager Fatisyah Yahaya’s youngest child is three years old but he still keeps her up at night. Sleepless nights are quite the norm in their family because all three of Fatisyah’s children have eczema which disturbs their rest. “My youngest […]
Are you prejudiced? Sleep it off!
A team at Northwestern University, Chicago, played sounds while people slept to trigger and enforce memories of an exercise earlier in the day. The trial on 40 people, published in the journal Science, showed the changes lasted at least a […]
Elite athletes should get heart screening, says expert
Olympic athletes should have tailored heart screening to check for life-threatening conditions before they can compete, a leading Italian doctor says. After running extensive tests on 2,354 elite athletes, he discovered six had potentially fatal disorders that disqualified them from […]
Delayed cord cutting at birth tied to better skills in childhood
Delaying cord clamping is already known to benefit babies by increasing iron levels in their blood for the first few months of life, researchers write in JAMA Pediatrics May 26. “There is quite a lot of brain development just after birth,” […]
Soy supplements do not help asthma sufferers
New research disproves recent findings that suggested soy could play a role in reducing the seventy of the disease. The study, from Northwestern Medical medicine and the American Lung Association Asthma Clinical Research Network, published Tuesday in the Journal of […]
New study backs risk estimate for contraceptive pills
The broadest study of its kind on Wednesday backed estimates that newer kinds of contraceptive pills carry a higher risk of dangerous blood clots. But it also confirmed past advice that the risk is very low in real terms and […]
Some blind individuals see using echoes: study
As scientists discover ways to transfer sensory elements such as sight and sound across bone, converting one to the other in the central nervous system, a new study says this could occur naturally in certain blind individuals in a process […]
Smokers who quit may have brains hard-wired for success
Smokers who kick the habit could be hard-wired for success, thanks to greater communication between two regions of the brain that may play a role in controlling the urge to reach for cigarettes, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers reviewed brain […]
Top 10 causes of low blood pressure
Hypotension or more commonly known as low blood pressure is a term when the pressure of the blood exerted against the walls of the blood vessels after and during every heartbeat is lower than normal. This phenomenon affects large number […]
