Under proposals to be announced next week by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), nationwide testing for tens of thousands of young people for a genetic defect that can kill them in their twenties.
The tests will include children as young as ten, and focuses on those whose mother and fathers were [...]
Research by scientists at the Imperial College of London has found that testing the phlegm and breath of young children with severe asthma, could spare them from potentially damaging oral steroid drugs by over a third over a three year period.
The tests could help spot the early signs of the condition, allowing it to be [...]
According to a leading British specialist, new drugs being tested for migraine sufferers cut the number of attacks and could help prevent them altogether.
The treatment is called Tonabersat and ‘turns down’ hyperactive nerves, which promote debilitating headaches.
Another pill, referred to as NK0974, is said to lift the pain from sufferers within two hours of taking [...]
Now-a-days it’s all too easy for doctors to diagnose a patient with depression. Can’t sleep? Probably depression, Feel a bit tired? Must be depression, Unmotivated? Most defiantly: depression. ‘Take two of these every day till you can’t feel feelings.’
Over two million people in the UK are taking prescribed anti-depressants, yet according to a new book, [...]
According to the June 1st issue of Cancer Research - a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research – a new study suggests that the form of tomato product you eat could be the key to unlocking its prostate cancer-fighting potential.
Valeri V. Mossine, Ph.D., research assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of [...]
Two studies from Demark and Sweden have found that drinking alcohol is not only good for your heart – it’s good for your joints too. A regular drink cuts the risk of rheumatoid arthritis by up to 50 percent – and the more you drink the greater the protection.
Rheumatoid arthritis affects 500,000 people in the [...]
British people have been infected for the first time by an animal variant of MRSA, the hospital superbug that infects more than 4,000 patients a year.
Yesterday scientist’s revealed that three patients in separate hospitals were infected with the ST389 strain, which is found in factory-farmed pigs in the Netherlands. There are now concerns that the [...]
To provide you with strong protection from diabetes you should have a Mediterranean diet with abundant quantities of virgin olive oil, a study has shown.The diet, which consists of large quantities of fruit, vegetables, wholegrain pulses and cereals can help you fight cardiovascular disease and, according to some research, Alzheimer’s.
Scientists in Spain have discovered that [...]
The company who claimed to have the miracle cure for Dyslexia, which could solve children’s reading and writing difficulties with a programme of balance and co-ordination exercises, has gone bust. The controversial Dore programme has shut down all 13 of the UK centres due to financial problems.
The programme treated up to 40,000 children at a [...]
Can being lonely make you ill?
A study released this week is suggesting that loneliness or extended periods of isolation can actually change how the body functions at a molecular level.
Chronic social isolation is linked to heart disease and can also hurt our ability to fend off colds and other viruses. But the cause of those [...]