NEWS A new study from the United States has found that water treatment plants taking discharges from pharmaceutical companies are putting high concentrations of drugs into […]
NEWS A majority of poor women in urban areas are still at risk of folic acid and folate deficiency, even with government-sanctioned mandatory fortifications, according to […]
NEWS Public health strategies are urgently required to tackle low intakes of vitamin D in the UK South-Asian population, finds a new study in the journal Public […]
NEWS Tonsils removal, breast reductions and snoring surgery will be offered to far fewer patients in England from next year, under plans being drawn up by […]
Across the world, millions of people have high blood levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, low-density lipoproteins (LDL), lipoprotein(a), and other risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. Not yet […]
NEWS A new study by researchers from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, has shown that a substantial number of adults […]
NEWS A person’s risk of death slows and even plateaus above age 105, a new study reports, challenging previous research saying there’s a cutoff point past […]
Pregnant smokers may reduce harm done to baby’s lungs by taking vitamin C
NEWS Women who are unable to quit smoking during their pregnancy may reduce the harm smoking does to their baby’s lungs by taking vitamin C, according […]