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Vegetarian diet reduces heart disease death risk by 40 percent

Vegetarian diet reduces heart disease death risk by 40 percent

6 Jun 2018

The latest in a long line of papers on the many health benefits of reducing meat intake concludes that a plant-based diet is great news for your heart. Vegetarianism and veganism are steadily...

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How much should seniors exercise to improve brain function?

How much should seniors exercise to improve brain function?

6 Jun 2018 • 2 comments

To boost their reasoning skills and the brain's processing speed, seniors may need to exercise for 52 hours over a period of 6 months, concludes a new study. The good news is that low-intensity...

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How are liver function and cholesterol production linked?

Autoimmune hepatitis
Benign liver tumours
Cirrhosis
Hepatic failure
Hepatic veno-occlusive disease
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis and liver diseases
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis D
Hepatitis E
Hepatitis H
Hepatitis of the child
Hepatorenal syndrome
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and NASH
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

How are liver function and cholesterol production linked?

6 Jun 2018 • 5 comments

Most cholesterol in the body is made in the liver and is necessary for good health. But some forms of cholesterol can cause several health issues, including damage to the liver. Cholesterol is a...

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Can we 'switch off' the pleasure of sweet tastes?

Can we 'switch off' the pleasure of sweet tastes?

6 Jun 2018

A new study, published in Nature, suggests that our craving for sweet tastes can be undone by manipulating neurons. The results may eventually help design new strategies for treating eating disorders....

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Immunotherapy effective against 'untreatable' prostate cancer

Prostate cancer

Immunotherapy effective against 'untreatable' prostate cancer

6 Jun 2018 • 1 comment

A major trial has demonstrated, for the very first time, that the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab is effective in treating advanced prostate cancer that did not respond to other treatments. Immunothe...

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Change a-brewing as health-conscious Brits snub booze

Change a-brewing as health-conscious Brits snub booze

6 Jun 2018

London, June 6, 2018 (AFP) - Britain has celebrated its drinking culture for centuries but initiatives such as the "Dry January" campaign show body-conscious adults are now shunning alcohol in record...

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Health sector gives blockchain glowing prognosis

Health sector gives blockchain glowing prognosis

6 Jun 2018

Paris, June 6, 2018 (AFP) - Securing safe interchange of patient data, improving the conduct of clinical tests and medicine traceability, and lowering costs. These are just some of the potential...

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For the first time, immunotherapy cures late-stage breast cancer: study

Breast cancer

For the first time, immunotherapy cures late-stage breast cancer: study

5 Jun 2018

Paris, June 4, 2018 (AFP) - A woman with an aggressive form of breast cancer which defied chemotherapy and spread to other organs, was cured with an experimental treatment that triggered her immune...

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Breast cancer: Test means fewer women will need chemotherapy

Breast cancer

Breast cancer: Test means fewer women will need chemotherapy

4 Jun 2018 • 2 comments

About 70% of women with the most common form of early stage breast cancer can be spared the "agony of chemotherapy", researchers say. It follows trials of a genetic test that analyses the danger of a...

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Eating nuts daily could help control Type 2 diabetes and prevent complications, study suggests

Diabetes (Type 2)
Diabetes insipidus

Eating nuts daily could help control Type 2 diabetes and prevent complications, study suggests

31 May 2018 • 2 comments

Eating nuts every day could help control Type 2 diabetes and prevent its complications, according to new research from St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto. In the research, published...

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Six months of breast cancer treatment ‘could be as effective as 12 in some women’

Breast cancer

Six months of breast cancer treatment ‘could be as effective as 12 in some women’

31 May 2018 • 1 comment

Six months of targeted drug therapy could potentially be as effective as treatment lasting 12 months for women with a type of early stage breast cancer. This is according to unpublished clinical...

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A new approach to the treatment of prostate cancer

Prostate cancer

A new approach to the treatment of prostate cancer

31 May 2018

By understanding the production of specific human sex hormones, it can help develop new treatments for prostate cancer and polycystic ovary syndrome, a new study suggests. The study, led by...

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