The study, which was started in 1990 and involved all men and women over the age of 55 living in a suburb of Rotterdam, found no difference in the risk of developing heart failure between those who did eat fish and those who didn’t. “Scientists and health authorities are increasingly persuaded that the intake of [...]
Author Clare M. Hasler, from the University of California-Davis, provides a historical perspective of the health benefits of alcohol consumption. She revealed that the first noticeable bump in red wine sales came as a result of the French paradox in the early 1990s. Hasler also covers recent studies on the link between alcohol consumption and [...]
“The transition from adolescence to adulthood has been shown to be a time for taking on many negative health behaviours including increase in smoking and alcohol use and decrease in physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption,” said Kim Raine, director of the University of Alberta’s Centre for Health Promotion Studies. “In this study, we [...]
The study, which examined the effects of smoking bans in regions across the United States and several countries in Europe, including Italy and Scotland, was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. It found bans in smoking in places including cafes and bars produced an overall 17 percent decrease in the risk [...]
Many studies have shown that not smoking, eating healthily and exercising cut heart disease rates. But few have tackled the problem from the other end: to what extend is life expectancy shortened by having these heart disease risk factors? To find out, researchers led by Robert Clark from the University of Oxford sifted through data [...]
The study by University of New South Wales (UNSW), which compared the efficiency of various masks, found that specialised respirators (N95 masks) offer the best protection to health workers. This is the first study to compare the efficiency of various masks, and it revealed that surgical masks offer no protection at all to either influenza [...]
Shedding extra pounds can preserve kidney function in obese people with kidney disease, according to a new study led by Indian origin scientist from Cleveland Clinic. Weight loss can improve a number of health problems, like it can improve control of diabetes, lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and reduce the effects of heart disease. [...]
Here’s a sweet treat that may actually be good for your teeth – dates. That’s right. Seems nature’s candies have one up on chocolate kisses and all the other rich delicacies – they have a substance that may help strengthen tooth enamel and guard against plaque. Reasons to Smile Dates are rich in the element [...]
An electronic nose foil some people’s attempt to deceive their doctors by telling them that they are non-smokers, in order to get cheaper life Smoking insurance. Paul Thomas at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, has revealed that their invention is a tweaked form of a commercially available e-nose. The researcher says [...]
Heart pumps, hooked with wires to power themselves, end up seriously infecting nearly 40 percent of patients. Scientists have now developed the technology to power heart pump wirelessly thus saving thousands of lives, and eventually offering an alternative to heart transplants. The wireless pump uses magnetic fields to transfer power through skin rather than using [...]
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