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Avoid breast cancer by drinking 5 cups of coffee a day
Yet another story showing the positive effect of something we are normally told is bad for us! A team of researchers at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, have found that heavy consumption of coffee re...A full English fry-up breakfast. Good for you?
Rod Liddle always writes an entertaining piece in the Sunday Times. He’s another one of those rare, non politically correct media types, like Jeremy Clarkson, to whom ‘sitting on the fen...Mastectomies for women with breast cancer could be halved by drug
Breast cancer victims that are post menopausal can avoid having one or both of their breasts removed by taking oestrogen-lowering drugs, according to research by Washington University School of Medi...Dementia ‘Holy Grail’
By the end of the decade scientists are predicting we will have drugs that delay the onset of dementia and give sufferers a better quality of life for years not months. The Alzheimer’s Society is â€...British men – the third fattest in Europe
With only Greece and Malta scoring higher in Europe, Britain is shamed again in a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO). 7 in 10 (67.8 per cent) of males 15 or over in Britain are either over...Calls to increase number of blood tests to identify ovarian cancer
About 4,400 women die each year in the UK as a result of ovarian cancer which equates to ‘one death every two hours’ as the Daily Telegraph not so cheerfully puts it. Figures in The Lanc...Six ways to fight dementia
The actor Jim Broadbent is about to star in a new TV BBC thriller called Exile as an elderley man suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. He is the patron of the charity Dementia UK and says his m...New tuberculosis treatment
For an older generation, Tuberculosis or TB used, to be a cause of real fear before a vaccine was developed. However, even now one third of the world’s population is infected with mycobacter...New treatment for pre-eclamsia with common heart disease drug
Scientists believe that statins, taken by millions of older Britons to reduce their cholesterol levels, can help reduce the severity of pre-eclampsia. Pre-eclampsia leads to high blood pressure in pre...Walking cuts risk of Alzheimer's disease
The health benefits for reducing Alzheimer’s disease by walking are back in the news. At the end of last year we reported how regular exercise in old age can keep your brain healthy in keepin...
