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Drinking coffee may prevent eyes from deteriorating
New research indicates that drinking coffee may protect against deteriorating eyesight and even blindness. Medical News Today reports that researchers from Cornell University found...
Exercise improves heart rate variability in seniors
Seniors who maintain or boost their physical activity levels are less likely to suffer a heart attack. Health24 reports that researchers say exercise improves...
Age or weight discrimination could lead to declines in health
People who believe they’ve suffered age or weight discrimination actually have poorer health than victims of racism and sexism. In contrast, perceived discrimination related...
Nagging and arguments with partners increases mortality risk
Having frequent arguments with partners, friends or relatives can increase the risk of death in middle-age. BBC News reports that according to researchers from...
‘But your baby isn’t…'
Women who smoke during pregnancy may be putting their newborns at risk for cong enital heart defects, and the more they smoke, the higher...
Ethics of silence
The University of Utah is ‘testing the presumption that IVF clinics deliver babies who are the biological children of their clients’, reports BioEdge. This...
Biggest cognitive study
A third of a million adults in the UK are to be invited to take part in the world's biggest study of cognitive function....
Ration drugs to the aged
Expensive drugs should be rationed for the old and frail in favour of people in their prime. This is according to Professor Karol Sikora,...
MSF staff killed
Sixteen civilians, including three national staff members with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), were killed during an armed robbery on MSF hospital grounds in the...
Hosmed woes
Hosmed medical scheme has been placed under provisional curatorship by the High Court in Pretoria, the Council for Medical Schemes said. ‘The court further...