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The Social Phobia that Stops People Going to the Toilet
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
Study finds smoking e-cigarettes could cause cancer
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
A recent study hints that e-cigarette smoke may contribute to lung and bladder cancer, as well as heart disease, in humans.
Using mice models for their study, scientists at the Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, have proposed that e-cigarette smoking is carcinogenic. The study results also found that e-cigarette smokers are at a higher risk of developing lung and bladder cancers and heart diseases compared to non-smokers.
Smoking tobacco creates a...
Flu virus becomes more virulent in pregnant women
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
When a woman is pregnant, her immune system is dampened to protect the unborn foetus. This is because the baby is recognised as a foreign being by the mother's immune system - the baby is genetically different to that of the mother.
Scientists at the Heinrich Pette Institute in Hamburg have shown in mice that the mother's suppressed immune system provides a unique opportunity for the influenza virus not only to infect the mother but to evolve into a more powerful strain.
"Pregnant women become...
High-salt diet linked to dementia in mice
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
Scientists have discovered that a diet which is high in salt, can have major effects on the brain and in mice, can lead to dementia. The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, is the first to identify a link between the gut and the brain and that it is responsible for cognitive impairment. This finding explores the possibility of preventing detrimental effects to the brain caused by an excess in salt intake. Dr. Costantino Iadecola, of the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at...
Breastfeeding rates increased by financial incentives
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
Breastfeeding rates increase when new mothers are offered financial incentives. Research from the University of Sheffield and the University of Dundee reveals that when mothers are offered vouchers to breastfeed their babies, the low rates of breastfeeding are significantly increased.
The study looked at over 10,000 new mothers in England, aged 16-44, who were offered £40 on five separate occasions if their child received breastmilk at two days, ten days, six weeks, three months and six months...
Healthy Eating Tips
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
The Alternative Treatment for Lower Back Pain - Yoga Myth Debunked
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
Chronic lower back pain is costing the United States more than $200 billion every year.
As the leading cause of disability in the world, there is a real effort by scientists to find effective treatments for people, which does not involve medical intervention like pain killers, or in extreme cases, surgery.
To help give evidence towards alternative chronic lower back pain treatments, a new study lead by Robert B. Saper at Boston Medical Centre, carried out over 1 year set out to see if yoga...
New method can tell how long bacteria takes to wait out antibiotics
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a major health concern in treating infectious diseases. Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a new method for measuring the time it takes to destroy a bacterial population. This could be used to successfully treat bacterial infections that are becoming multi-drug resistant.
Bacteria can gain resistance by collecting mutations. Mutations are changes in DNA, which can ultimately lead to changing the behavior of bacteria. As a...
You have proteins on your mind
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
Food cravings are something we are all familiar with but scientists have only just begun to understand the science behind them.
In a new study by Professor Mark N. Wu at John Hopkins University, published in Science, scientists established the circuit of brain cells which controls fruit fly hunger for a protein diet.
This is especially important for understanding how the brain controls hunger for certain nutrients may help in the treatment of obesity in humans.
Animals are known to change...
Why black and white stripes trigger seizures
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
Sleep unlocks secret of youth for the elderly
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
As we age, our nights can become more eventful with regular toilet trips, spells of wakefulness and the many other annoyances that disrupt a good night's slumber. According to neuroscientists, this doesn't mean that the elderly need less sleep overall.
A recent review published in Neuron highlighted that the aging population are more likely to suffer memory loss as well as a wide range of mental and physical disorders, such as diabetes, heart attacks, stroke, depression and even cancer, if their...
New treatment might provide faster recovery from Tuberculosis
May 11, 2025 • 10:30 AM
A study has revealed that that a new drug regimen for tuberculosis could reduce treatment time by up to 75% as well as cutting the risk for the development of drug-resistant Tuberculosis (TB) in patients.
According to the World Health Organisation, an estimated 10.4 million new cases of TB were reported in 2015 and of those 1.8 million died. There were also at least 480,000 new cases of multi-drug resistant TB in 2015. It comes as no surprise that TB is a global health problem as it overtakes HIV...
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