Category: Education
Safer Treatments for Arthritis on the Way
Thanks to a new study, the risk of heart attacks and stroke associated with arthritis drugs, is now avoidable. Drugs such as Vioxx, diclofenac, ibuprofen and Celebrex operate by blocking an enzyme known as COX-2, whose presence in blood vessels […]
Irregular sleeping time negatively affects kids’ brains
A new study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health suggests that sleeping late in the night and not having a fixed time of going to bed each night tended to negatively affect children’s brains. The study was […]
Choir Singing Helps Synchronize Heartbeats, Study Finds
A new study conducted by a group of Swedish researchers suggests that choir singers not only manage to synchronize their voice with others in the group but also synchronize their heartbeats. Researchers from Sahlgrenska Academy at Gothenburg University in Sweden […]
Introducing solid foods for babies after six months of life increases risk of type 1 diabetes
A new study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics suggests that introducing solid foods to babies before and after the recommended time could increase the risk of type 1 diabetes, especially among babies who already have a higher risk of […]
Watch out for inflammatory foods
MALAYSIA – Inflammation has been clearly identified as the key culprit in many chronic diseases that kill millions of people every year, including heart disease and cancer. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), cardiovascular disease caused an estimated 17.3 […]
On liver cancer, your risks, and how to minimise it
MALAYSIA – The liver has the distinction of being the largest internal organ in the body. It performs several vital functions, like processing and storing many of the nutrients absorbed by the intestines, making some of the clotting elements […]
Meat-eating habits linked to cancer mortality
People who report eating the most red and processed meat before being diagnosed with colon cancer are more likely to die during the next eight years, a new study has found. Dr Marjorie McCullough, the study’s lead author from the […]
What needs to be done to improve tuberculosis treatment rates
In BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Medicine, research finds that people with tuberculosis (TB) in China often delay going to see a doctor for more than two weeks. Reasons for this include a poor understanding of TB, increasing costs […]
Tick’s Spit Leads to Blood Clotting
There really is such a thing as tick spit. That is, the saliva of a tick and there’s something about it that might help fight heart disease and stroke. The link comes from a protein found in the spit of […]
Keeping mentally busy tied to less memory loss
People who spend a lot of time reading, writing and otherwise seeking and processing new information lose their thinking and memory skills more slowly as they age, a new study suggests. Researchers found being “cognitively active” both early and later […]
