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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 […]

Pharma companies putting drugs into the water supply

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 […]

Low-income mothers in the United States aren’t getting enough folate

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 […]

Concern Over Low Vitamin D Intakes Among UK South Asians

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 […]

England’s National Health Service Says It Will End ‘Ineffective’ Medical Treatments

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 […]

How To Lower High Cholesterol Levels Naturally, Without Drugs

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 […]

Study Finds Significant Proportion Of Older Adults Deficient In Vitamin B12 And Folate

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 […]

Does Human Lifespan REALLY Have A Limit?

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 […]