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Sunbeds – Think of the risks before using them
Twenty-five year old Leanne Atherton, from Greater Manchester, who was a regular with sunbeds for 20 minutes a week, for eight years is battling malignant melanoma. Now, she wants to create more awareness about the risks of using sun beds. […]
Don’t give blood if you have high-risk lifestyle
SEREMBAN, Malaysia – Malaysians with high-risk lifestyles must stop donating blood although they feel they are healthy as there is a window period for infections or viruses before the symptoms show up. The National Blood Centre (NBC) said that despite […]
Singapore reports fifth dengue death this year
SINGAPORE- Singapore reported a death case from dengue fever on Tuesday, raising the dengue death toll in the city state this year to five. The latest death involved a 52-year-old Chinese male, said a joint statement by the Ministry of […]
Oily fish consumption cuts rheumatoid arthritis risk
Eating oily fish once a week can reduce the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, reveals study. The research conducted on more than 32,000 Swedish women found that a fish diet is beneficial because it is rich in omega-3- a good […]
Breastfeeding reduces obesity risk
Breastfeeding for six to seven months has been linked to reduced risk of obesity in kids, finds study. A total of 43,367 singleton Japanese children who were born after 37 gestational weeks and had information about their feeding during infancy […]
Bee sting therapy creating a buzz in China, but some say its “quackery”
BEIJING – Patients in China are swarming to acupuncture clinics to be given bee stings to treat or ward off life-threatening illness, practitioners say. More than 27,000 people have undergone the painful technique – each session can involve dozens of […]
‘Haphazard Use Of Vaccines Led To Bird Flu In Nepal’: Government
An official said that bird flu outbreaks in Nepal, which have not yet been controlled, mainly spread due to unverified vaccines being administered haphazardly to chickens by poultry farmers. Poultry farmers imported and used the vaccines haphazardly without first consulting […]
Herbal medicine ingredient linked to cancer
TAIPEI – Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital yesterday published research showing that aristolochic acid is a carcinogen that can cause gene mutation. Science Translational Medicine, an interdisciplinary medical journal established in October 2009 by the American Association for the Advancement […]
Needle-sized robot offers hope to brain hemorrhage sufferers
Scientists have developed a new robot which could help in surgery to relieve the damaging pressure caused by hemorrhaging in the brain. That is the basic premise of a new image-guided surgical system under development at Vanderbilt University. It employs […]
High-tech gadgets can be produced on the cheap thanks to common salt
Common salt could be the answer of producing low cost high-tech gadgets after researchers found that it can allow mass commercial production of silicon nanostructure, which has a large range of applications from electronics to biomedicine. By melting and absorbing […]
