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Pregnant women now can enjoy their morning coffee as researchers in the US claim that one cup a day is unlikely to cause any harm at all.
They say that 200 mg of caffeine – the equivalent of two cups of instant or one of filter – will not increase the risk of miscarriage or [...]
Men with prostate cancer who have not responded to conventional treatments may benefit from supplements containing a modified form of a fruit ingredient, preliminary research suggests.
After 13 men with prostate cancer that did not respond to conventional treatment tried supplements containing modified fruit pectin (MCP) for 12 months, 7 of the 10 men who [...]
Vitamin C can help block the growth of cancer cells, found New Zealand researchers—a feat that could be quickly adopted into cancer treatment.
After much controversy over the role of vitamin C in cancer treatment, a team from Otago University at Christchurch have now shown that it has a role in controlling tumour growth.
They have said [...]
Vaccine patch could cut out the need for painful needles and boost the effectiveness of immunisation against diseases like flu, say US researchers.
The patch has hundreds of microscopic needles which dissolve into the skin.
Tests in mice show the technology may even produce a better immune response than a conventional jab.
Writing in Nature Medicine, the team [...]
Everything under the sun has been linked to obesity. Now the sun itself, or the lack of it, is being blamed for people being fatty.
A team of scientists at Aberdeen University has found that Scotland’s dismal weather makes it more difficult for people to shed those extra pounds. Their research suggests that overweight people tend [...]
Eating chocolate can almost halve a woman’s risk of developing pre-eclampsia, a condition which increases blood pressure and reduces the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to the baby and often leads to a premature birth.
Pregnant women who nibble at a chocolate at least three times a week could halve their risk of the potentially deadly [...]
Eating less may help in living a long and healthy life, indicates a Canadian study.
Russ Hepple, a physiologist, along with other researchers at the University of Calgary examined the effects of calorie restricted diets on rats and found that elderly rats on such diet had the muscle mass and function of a 20-year-old rat, reported [...]
A morning cup of coffee may help prevent diabetes, a new report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, U.S. Tuesday claimed, adding caffeine apparently has little to do with the effect.
Researchers compared the coffee consumption habits of 28,812 women enrolled in the Iowa Women’s Health Study in U.S. and found that the women who [...]
The gastric microbe, Helicobacter pylori, that’s the cause of most stomach ulcers also takes it out on the heart, Italian investigators report.
They found that people with rapid beating of the upper chamber of the heart, atrial fibrillation, are nearly 20 times more likely to be infected with Helicobacter than are healthy “controls,” according to [...]
Results of a new German study indicate that passive smoking can increase the risk of contracting type 2 diabetes.
The survey was carried out by the German Diabetes Centre and the Helmholtz Centre and looked at 1,351 people. Until now scientific studies had only shown a link between active smoking and diabetes.
Between 1999 and [...]
