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Scan can predict Alzheimer's years ahead
Australian and American scientists have developed a brain scan that can detect Alzheimer’s disease years in advance. This Alzheimer’s test could be available within 12 months. The scie...Dancing can help people with Parkinson's disease
Dancing can help people suffering from Parkinson’s disease by helping overcome their symptoms. Research conducted by Roehampton University in London, monitored the progress of 24 people with Par...Less sleep, less testosterone
Men with poor sleep patterns have significantly lower levels of testosterone. This lowers sex drive but also has a range of other health effects. For young men it can lead to lower muscle mass and...Heart disease and stroke risk halved by 10p 'polypill'
Many lives could be saved in Britain each year by a new polypill which includes aspirin and statins plus a couple of other drugs. In international trials the polypill was found to halve the risk of...Possible cure for severe asthma
Asthma, which affects 300 million people worldwide, has no cure albeit many sufferers use inhalers to reduce the symptoms. Now researchers in the U.S. believe that have made a breakthrough. Scient...Blood cancer treatments denied by NICE
Four eminent haematologists have criticised the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) for denying three types of potentially live saving drugs to people suffering from blood cancer (chroni...6 coffees a day to avoid prostate cancer
Last week it was 5 coffees a day to avoid breast cancer see our article from 12 May 11 Avoid breast cancer by drinking 5 cups of coffee a day and now it’s 6 coffees a day to reduce the …<...Alzheimer’s test for all over-60’s
Under proposals from government science advisers, everyone over the age of 60 could be tested for early signs of Alzheimer’s. The current system means that tens of thousands of people are being cond...Children under 10 can risk future health by lack of exercise
Researchers in Sweden have found that children as young as 9 years old could be putting themselves at risk of future heart disease because they are not exercising enough. The researchers, from Skane...Stem cell breakthrough can repair the liver
Yet another story about the benefits of stem cell treatment. Patients suffereing liver disease in an advanced state can be treated with stem cells from their own skin or blood. The technique has bee...
