Category: Education
Instant noodles pose health risk for women
Consuming instant noodles, such as Ramen, increases the likelihood of illnesses such as high blof pressure, elevated blood sugar and high cholesterol, a Harvard study found. The study looked at data from 10,711 adults – just over half of whom […]
Targeted Therapy helps cure melanoma
Melanoma,a type of skin cancer, is usually treatable when it’s detected early, and can be addressed by Targeted Therapy drugs, which, unlike chemo, kills only cancer cells. Below are some of Targeted Therapy drugs: Vemurafenib. The FDA approved this drug for […]
This year’s flu vaccine only 23% effective
A health official has said that this year’s flu vaccine is only 23% effective. The poor showing is primarily because the vaccine doesn’t include the bug that is making most people sick, health officials say. In the last decade, flu […]
$100 million Euros to find Ebola cure
Johnson & Johnson announced that 100 million euros ($115 million) would be given from Europe’s Innovative Medicines Initiative to speed up work on developing Ebola vaccine. This follows the drugmaker’s announcement earlir this month that it had begun clinical trials […]
There is hope for a cure of Alzheimer’s, a doctor says
Dr Rick Livesey and his team at the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge are working with Alzheimer’s Research UK, using state-of-the-art stem cell technology to develop a better understanding of how Alzheimer’s disease starts and then progresses. “Most people know someone close […]
Environment, more than genetics, shape immune system
Environment, more so than genetics, shape our immune system, a new study has found. Children’s immune system are more likely to be influenced by their parents, but this changes as they become adults, with environment trumping genetics in determining just […]
Kids tend to snack more during school ride home
Kids are more likely to snack on junk food during their ride home from school, whether in a bus or in a car, a new study reveals. The researchers thought that kids who walk or bike to and from school […]
Inactivity more fatal than obesity
A study that spanned 12 years and involved more than 300, 000 people found that inactivity was twice as fatal than obesity. University of Cambridge researchers said about 676,000 deaths each year were down to inactivity, compared with 337,000 from […]
1 in 5 epilepsy patients have ADHD, study finds
Researchers at the Neurological Surgery, P.C. (NSPC) in Rockville Centre, New York has found that 1 in 5 patients with epilepsy exhibit attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms They surveyed 1,400 adult epilepsy patients across the United States. They found that more than 18 percent […]
Most doctors in Asia withhold treatments of terminally ill patients
70% of physicians in Asia would withhold life-sustaining treatments, a study found. Jason Phua of the National University Hospital in Singapore noted that more than half of all cases of critical illness, mechanical ventilation and deaths in intensive care units […]
