A new study challenges conventional thinking that a high carbohydrate, low fat slimming plan should contain little or no added sugar. A team of scientists at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh has found that a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet — containing sucrose — combined with physical activity achieved the greatest health benefits in overweight subjects.
A Penn State researcher argues that ambiguous international rules outlining when and how governments may “break” pharmaceutical patents may end up significantly reducing incentives for innovation while at the same time failing to increase access to medicines.
Researchers at The University of Nottingham have got more bad news for smokers. Not only does it cause cancer, heart attacks and strokes but smokers will also lose more muscle mass in old age than a non-smoker.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Health Secretary Alan Johnson today announced a review of the NHS that would advise on how to meet the challenges of delivering health care over the next decade.
Bigger waistlines are a growing problem in Australia and are the focus of this year?s National Diabetes Week, running July 8-14.
A new University of Maryland study in the July issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America reports that high powered sonar, like that used by U.S. Navy ships, did not harm test fish, including their hearing, in a controlled setting.
Now blood vessels can be created from bone marrow adult stem cells that function like native tissue in human body, revealed in a recent study by the researchers at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering of University at Buffalo.
Antioxidants in organic tomatoes are healthier for heart & blood pressure, revealed in a 10-year US research study comparing organic tomatoes with those grown conventionally.
Although a number of studies have suggested that regular exercise reduces inflammation ? a condition that is predictive of cardiovascular and other diseases, such as diabetes ? it is still not clear whether there is a definitive link. And if such a link exists, the nature of the relationship is by no means fully understood.
Nearly a quarter of hospital or “healthline” operators mistakenly routed a caller describing classic stroke symptoms to primary care doctors rather than to 9-1-1, according to a research project published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.