A combined report by two charities in the UK – British Pregnancy Advisory Service (bpas) and Pregnancy Sickness Support (PSS) – has issued a warning that difficulty in obtaining swift treatment and…
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New blood test could phaseout biopsies for cancer detection
Researchers have developed a new blood test that holds the potential of changing the way we detect cancer thereby phasing out the currently used biopsy method. As most of you might know,…
Twitter, big data could help hospitals better plan and handle emergencies
Twitter as a medium of sharing information in few characters has garnered user base and according to researchers tweets from users along with few other information could help hospitals better plan their…
BC University issues apology after accidentally sending 400 acceptance letters
Thompson Rivers University has issued a retraction of 400 acceptance letters that got sent by mistake and has also apologised for the erroneous communication. The email indicating acceptance to the Bachelor of…
Maple syrup + common antibiotics = faster annihilation of bacteria
Maple syrup take pancakes to a whole new level, but scientists have found another great use for the syrup – as a booster of bacteria’s susceptibility to antibiotics. According to researchers at…
Rosehip extracts said to reduce growth of triple negative breast cancer
Triple negative breast cancer is an aggressive form of cancer that doesn’t respond to most available treatments, but a new research pegs extract from rosehips – the fruit of the rose plant…
Researchers reason poorer outcomes for African-American women with ER+ breast cancer
Researchers may have found the reason why there are poorer outcomes for African-American women with estrogen-receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer compared with European-American patients. According to a research by investigators at Georgetown…
US school kids increasingly using e-cigarettes, government report says
With industry experts increasingly discussing the pros and cons of e-cigarettes, a new US government report has revealed a three-fold increase in the use of e-cigarettes among school going kids in 2014…
Start playing a flute to reduce your risk of developing obstructive sleep apnoea
According to a new study, findings of which were presented at the Sleep and Breathing Conference 2015 yesterday, those who play wind instruments including flute have a reduced risk of developing obstructive…
Tea drinking habits of Brits revealed in new survey
A new survey has shed light on how much tea Brits drink and according to findings, people in the UK drink enough tea annually to fill two bathtubs. The charity Contact The…
Smell of sweat communicates positive emotions, researchers say
Researchers have revealed that our bodies produce chemical signals aka chemosignals that communicate positive emotions like happiness that are detected by people who smell our sweat and instantly share our happiness. While…
Researchers group obese people in 6 categories; recommend targeted treatment
Researchers say that obesity, which costs NHS £6 billion annually, isn’t of a single type but instead can be categorised into six different types and that tailored strategies to tackle the menace…
Prostate cancer survivors should walk for 3 hours a week to improve quality of life
Walking is one of the best forms of exercise that is recommended for everyone and now a new Northwestern Medicine study has claimed that if prostate cancer survivors walk for three hours…
AstraZeneca’s lung cancer drug delays disease progression by over a year
AstraZeneca has revealed latest data from the ongoing AURA study of AZD9291 [a drug for lung cancer] in patients with advanced epidermal growth factor receptor mutation positive (EGFRm) non-small cell lung cancer…
Flavours in e-cigarettes pose health concerns for vapers
E-cigarettes flavours contain chemicals that pose health concerns for daily e-cigarette users, or ‘vapers’, a new study led by Portland State University professor James F. Pankow has warned. Published in in Tobacco…