Their experimental data, appearing in this week's edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has provided the first evidence that a food…
– Psychologists estimate that 35 per cent of Spanish workers between 25 and 40 will have to face the syndrome this year- Tiredness, lack of appetite and…
This new technology opens up the possibility of better, faster cancer treatment and greater accessibility to the test, thanks to quicker and more…
In the largest study of its kind, cardiologist M. Reza Movahed, MD, PhD, and research specialist Adolfo A. Martinez, MD, discovered that excessive body weight…
Having a mother that smokes was found to have the biggest independent effect on cotinine in the urine – quadrupling it. Having a smoking father doubled the…
During exercise and physical activity, the primary fuels used by muscles are carbohydrate and fat. When mild exercise is performed there is a tendency to burn…
The APC, funded by Science Foundation Ireland, was set up investigate the beneficial roles of the bacteria found in the gastro-intestine of healthy humans. The…
Researchers monitored visits by123 families to see how they could improve hygiene and reduce hospital acquired infections like MRSA, which are a major cause of…
Very low-carbohydrate weight-loss diets (such as the so-called ‘Atkins-type diets) are popular with people struggling to lose weight and are used in some…
Findings reported today at EULAR 2007, the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR) in Barcelona, Spain, reveal a treatment disparity between female…
In the first international ‘map of rheumatoid arthritis’ (RA), spanning Europe and beyond, significant national differences in RA severity can be directly…
And soldiers, Italian professional footballers and the Chamorro population of the Pacific Island of Guam have been reported to be more at risk of MND than the…
River blindness (onchocerciasis) is caused by the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus, a parasite transmitted by Similium blackflies. Around 37 million…
Dr Astrid Oude Lashof, Nijmegen University Centre for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands, and colleagues treated the…
The global obesity epidemic was issued with a further health warning today – that obesity exacerbates the quality of life of patients with rheumatoid arthritis…
Whilst some disease activity measurements were found to be higher for women than men, and self-reported disease activity by the patients themselves echoed…
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