Category: Features
Resting is OK – just avoid the TV
SINGAPORE – We have long been told that too much time sitting around on the sofa makes us fat. Not necessarily, say scientists. Relaxing with a book or surfing the Web is fine. What really counts is how much television […]
Wristband checks user’s identity through their own heartbeat
A Toronto-based company has invented a wristband that confirms user’s identity through their own heartbeat and then communicates the authentication to their devices such as iPads and cars. The wearer registers their identity by touching a sensor that has been […]
E-cigarette makers go to war over EU proposals
Makers and users of electronic cigarettes Tuesday went to war against EU plans to class the devices as medicinal products, saying any such move would end up harming public health. Days before members of the European Parliament vote on a […]
Patients are more Inclined to multi-drug pills
An international study has found that people are much more likely to take preventive medicines if they’re combined in one pill. The findings are published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Taking aspirin, cholesterol-lowering and blood pressure-lowering […]
Philippines reports record high HIV cases in July
MANILA – The Philippines has recorded 449 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in July this year, the highest monthly number since the first case was reported in 1984, the Department of Health (DOH) said Sunday. The July figure […]
Doctors get good and bad safety news on diabetes drugs
Diabetes pills known as DPP-4 therapies got a mixed safety report on Monday as studies showed they did not raise the risk of heart attacks but might be linked to heart failure, where the heart fails to pump blood adequately. […]
Pacemaker for slow heart rhythm restores life expectancy to normal level
Research presented at ESC Congress 2013 by Dr Erik O. Udo from the Netherlands reveals that pacemakers implanted for slow heart rhythm restore life expectancy to normal levels. The findings provide a new reference point for the prognosis of modern […]
Scientists reveal science behind living till 100
A mechanism by which Sirt1 protein operates in the brain to bring about a significant delay in aging and an increase in longevity has been discovered by scientists. The researchers found that the median life span of mice in the […]
Diabetes rises in China, reaching ‘alert’ level
Almost 12 per cent of adults in China had diabetes in 2010, with economic prosperity driving the disease to slightly higher proportions than in the United States, researchers said Tuesday. The overall prevalence of diabetes in China in 2010 was […]
Fake ambulances reported in Taipei
TAIPEI – Taipei’s Department of Health (DOH) yesterday said it has received two reports from Taipei citizens of counterfeit ambulances driving around the city. The DOH said that according to two citizen reports, one from May and the other from […]
