For the first time, Aids experts have brought together new assessments from six locations around the world that have made impressive progress fighting the epidemic,...
June 12th, 2019The goal of 10, 000 daily steps is widely believed to be necessary for health, but this number has limited scientific basis. A large, four-year US study of older women...
April 28th, 2019Asian countries are in the early stages of a tobacco smoking epidemic with habits mirroring those of the United States from past decades, setting the stage for a spike...
November 7th, 2018Body Mass Index (BMI), a measure of body fat, is linked to risk of death from every major cause except transport accidents, according to an analysis of 3.6m people in...
The minimum risk of low-level drinking frequency for all-cause mortality appears to be approximately three occasions weekly, according to a US analysis of two large data...Gerontology
Happy older people live longer, according to researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. The authors of the study found that an increase in happiness is...
August 15th, 2018A UK research review has found that people who sleep for more than eight hours a night have a greater mortality and cardiovascular risk than those who sleep for under...
People who think they are less active than others in a similar age bracket die younger than those who believe they are more active, even if their actual activity levels...
June 28th, 2017A large coronary artery bypass cohort had a mortality rate similar to the general population if they made it through the fist month, found a Danish register study. But...
A large study suggests hospitals that used intensive care units (ICUs) more readily were more likely to perform invasive procedures and have higher costs ,while showing...
