Trendy intermittent fasting may RAISE your risk of infections, heart disease and CANCER, study suggests Scientists in New York found that skipping meals can trigger more inflammation They warned this could raise the risk of heart disease and cancer READ MORE: Intermittent fasting may raise your risk of an early death Skipping breakfast may raise your risk of infections, heart […]

Lorraine: Daisy Maskell discusses living with insomnia We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Difficulty sleeping is an issue that is thought to affect around one in […]

As air pollution in Stockholm has decreased, the lung capacity of children and adolescents has improved, according to a new study published in the European Respiratory Journal. The researchers from Karolinska Institutet consider the results important, since lung health of the young greatly affects their risk of developing chronic lung diseases later in life. “Fortunately, we’ve seen a decrease in […]

More than a third of singletons admit they’re “secret smokers” – and hide it from potential partners. Research, into 500 single adults who smoke, found one in four don’t declare they smoke on a first date, lidocaine 2 side effects and 15 percent don’t specify on their dating profiles – with the same percentage “ashamed” of their habit. Almost half […]

I feel asleep with contact lenses in and a flesh-eating bug ate my EYE: Florida man, 21, shares horror story that’ll have you scared to make the mistake ever again WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Michael Krumholz, 21, fears lost vision in eye He developed flesh-eating bacterial infection after sleeping wearing contacts READ MORE: Doctor removes 23 contact lenses from a patients […]

Researchers at The University of Alabama identified a critical mechanism for how signals from the environment are integrated with genetic information to influence the health and survival of brain cells, providing a key insight into the development of Parkinson’s disease. In findings outlined in a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers open unexplored […]

Researchers who studied more than 300 pediatric patients receiving heart transplants over the past 36 years at the University of Florida have documented how advances in technology, technique, and patient management have improved outcomes for younger patients with more serious heart disease, according to a study published this month in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. In what […]

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Cancer often presents itself in subtle and unexpected ways. This makes listening to any unusual changes in your body front and centre. However, Adam was just two years old when he started battling the daunting condition. Fortunately, his mum Sheena Harrad, now 37, persisted until her boy got the right diagnosis. Sheena, from Coalville, Derbyshire, took Adam to see doctors […]

Doctors and their family members are less likely than other people to follow guidelines for taking medication, according to a study by economic professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Stanford University School of Medicine, and the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard University. What to Know Doctors’ medical knowledge may influence them and their […]