July 24th, 2019A simple finger-prick blood test for C-reactive protein can prevent unnecessary antibiotics for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a...
July 3rd, 2019High expectations among the UK public of the benefits of medicinal cannabis are being disappointed because doctors are unwilling to prescribe it in the knowledge that...
July 3rd, 2019Up to half of men under the age of 50 are suffering from erectile dysfunction as impotence rates have more than doubled in the last 25 years, The Independent reports a...
June 26th, 2019 PREDICT, a collaboration between King's College London, Harvard and Stanford in the US – is a study to measure thousands of people’s responses to different foods...
June 19th, 2019
A growing band of of "master athletes" demonstrate that "we often confuse the effects of inactivity with the ageing process itself", write Stephen Harridge and...
May 29th, 2019Leonardo da Vinci produced some of the world's most iconic art, but historical accounts show that he struggled to complete his works. And now 500 years after his death,...
May 22nd, 2019Older adults who regularly take part in word and number puzzles have sharper brains, according to the largest online study to date. The more regularly adults aged 50 and...
Unhealthy diets are responsible for 11m preventable deaths globally per year, more even than smoking tobacco, according to the Global Burden of Disease study. But the...HIV/AIDS
Rates of diabetes are higher in people living with HIV than in the general population, but individualised lifestyle advice from a dietitian led to clinically and...
April 3rd, 2019Non-surgical brain stimulation techniques, such as electro-convulsive therapy and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, should be considered as alternative or...
