Share Meat and milk from cloned animals are ‘unlikely’ to be a bigger safety risk than conventional food products, a government advisers relayed. However researchers have underlined a serious gap in a study on the outcome of Consuming food from cloned animals and advised the consumers will demand that it is clearly labelled. The [...]
Share Obese children are susceptible of heart disease at the age of 15. A research shows that staying overweight all through adolescence is sowing signs of ill-health in the future. This is the first study connecting between the BMI body mass index, waist size and fat mass of pre-teen children and succeeding heart risk factors [...]
Share For every one hundred deaths worldwide one is a victim of second hand smoke, which WHO researchers have revealed on Friday that approximately 600,000 people are dying in a year. During the first study to evaluate the effect of second-hand smoke, WHO researchers discovered that children are mostly exposed to second-hand smoke than any [...]
Share McDonald’s Happy Meals with toys was banned by the Board of Supervisor in San Francisco, California. Regardless of the oppositions and mock from the opponents, the vote supersedes the mayor’s veto and officially agreed the ban. The latest decree requires Happy Meals and other fast food with toys to meet new nutritional standards, otherwise [...]
Share Daily intake of aspirin among middle age people will help fight off heart disease and cancer, a scientist said yesterday. The advantages of taking the pills were discovered to far outweigh the side-effects on people over 45. A professional group said the results were capable of massive importance to public health and those at [...]
Share Thousands of women will benefit from the remarkable improvement in testing for cervical cancer. Test results are release in one day and is more accurate compared to the smear test which is presently used to detect signs of disease, a researcher said. The cost is only £15 a time and could be obtain in [...]
Share There are things in the past that we would rather forget, scientists were able to discover a pill that helps blocking out painful memories. A breakthrough in medicine, researchers have discovered that proteins can be removed from the brain’s fear centre to erase the traumatic life stories. Their findings could be beneficial to soldiers [...]
Share The most advanced technique that could cure blindness and prevent from losing vision is to be tested on human for the first time. Researchers have the green light to inset embryonic stem cells into the eyes of young men and women with a genetically form of blindness. Trial on older people with age-related muscular [...]
Share With just a small glass of red wine a day could help adult diabetes under control, scientists declared last night. Latest study shows that the drink contains high concentration of chemicals that help regulates the blood sugar levels of the body. The small glass of red wine has as many of these active ingredients [...]
Share Proppoxyphene was pulled from the U.S market in agreement with Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals Inc. This drug contains Darvon and Darvocet painkiller drugs as exposed by the US Food and Drug Administration. In Europe, this drug was already recommended for withdrawal in 2009 and the withdrawal is being carried out there. The drug is now pulled [...]
