Category: Features
Healthy diet linked to healthy cellular aging in women
Having a diet that is rich in fruit, vegetable and whole grain and low in added sugar, sodium and processed meat could help promote healthy cellular aging in women, a study of the University of Michigan (UM) showed. UM researchers […]
Emotional stress causes heart attacks in women
Emotional stress triggers “spontaneous coronary artery dissection” (SCAD), a condition that causes around one-third of heart attacks in women under 60 years of age, researchers say. SCAD occurs when the lining of an artery supplying blood to the heart tears […]
No alcohol safe to drink, study says
Bad news for those who enjoy what they think is a healthy glass of wine a day. A large new global study published in the Lancet has confirmed previous research which has shown that there is no safe level of […]
Coconut is ‘pure poison’ that increases cholesterol – Harvard professor
For certain health food shops and wellbeing sites it is the panacea that helps everything from bad hair and mental grogginess to obesity and haemorrhoids. But the carefully-crafted image of coconut oil as a cure for many ills has been […]
CDC approves nasal spray influenza vaccine for flu season
Over the past two years, the CDC has advised the public to avoid the nasal spray version of the influenza vaccine, but things changed this year. The agency recently published its 2018 – 2019 flu season advisory, an update over […]
Researchers use gut bacteria to turn type A or B blood into type-O
Scientists believe they have found a reliable way to transform donor blood into the universal type needed for safe, emergency blood transfusions. The discovery is enzymes from gut bacteria that can efficiently turn type-A human blood into type-O. Type-O blood […]
New drug can shrink cervical cancer tumours
Patients with advanced ovarian or lung cancer could benefit from a new drug combination that might give them more months of life, researchers say. They tested the therapy on 25 women with high-grade serous ovarian cancer and 40 patients with […]
Use honey to treat cough instead of antibiotics
Honey and over-the-counter medicines should be the first line of treatment for most people with coughs, new guidelines recommend. Antibiotics should rarely be prescribed by doctors for coughs because in most cases they do little to improve symptoms, health officials […]
HIV viral suppression rates increase between 1997 to 2015
Robin M. Nance, from the University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues examined viral suppression trends among PLWH in a longitudinal observational cohort study. Annual viral suppression rates were determined from 1997 to 2015. The correlations between viral suppression or […]
15 foods that can cause heart disease
They say “you are what you eat” and in the case of heart disease, that couldn’t be truer. With diet contributing to many leading culprits of heart disease such as high cholesterol, inflammation, and obesity, what we put inside our […]
