Expressing concern over the rising incidence of heart diseases, the President of the Heart Care Foundation of India suggested that people should have in mind certain health objectives. They should keep their Glycosolate haemoglobin below 6.5 per cent which meant that the fasting sugar level must not be higher than 90mmg and LDL or bad […]

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Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis concluded in a study published in the journal Health Psychology, that obese children need actions that provide them with more active guidance and strategies to help them achieve behavioural changes that may help them get back to good shape.
The conclusion of study points that […]

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A researcher from the University of Virginia insists that the theory claiming that eating so-called “bad” carbohydrates will make you fat is untrue. He came to this statement after evaluating peer-reviewed, scientific research on carbohydrate consumption, glycemic index and body weight.
He considers that carbohydrates are not the enemy, so there is no reason to be […]

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Italian researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s 61st Annual Fall Conference of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research that as many as 50 percent of overweight people with high blood pressure may have hypertension as a result of weight excess.
Their conclusion is based on experiment at the University of Pavia, Italy, involving overweight […]

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Findings by U.S. researchers of Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill., support the idea that Alzheimer’s memory loss is associated to a novel, third type of diabetes.
The study was published in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal and one of its conclusion is that a toxic protein found in Alzheimer’s patients — amyloid-beta […]

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This conclusion is published in an article in the The British Medical Journal.
According to the article authors, Occupational Therapy is the use of “purposeful activity designed to achieve outcomes which promote health, prevent injury or disability and which develop, improve or restore the highest possible level of independence.”
Researchers found that patients who have had a stroke […]

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Researchers of the University of São Paulo Medical School in Brazil have found that treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) significant reduces early indications of atherosclerosis in just few months.
Their conclusion was that OSA is directly linked to the hardening or narrowing of the arteries and is independently associated […]

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Harvard Men’s Health Watch published the study concluding that men need to be cautious about taking multivitamins more than once a day because they are 32 percent more likely to develop advanced cancer of prostate and are 98 percent more likely to die from the disease.
The team conducting the research also found that there was […]

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A researcher at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler School of Medicine has developed, in conjunction with the drug company Obecure, what could be a new weight-loss wonder drug, which not only quells the desire to consume fatty foods, but also has fewer side effects.
The new drug, called HistaleanTM, is based on betahistine, and is believed that […]

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American researchers have developed a new drug, that when used along with chemotherapy, shows significant promise in treating advanced melanoma, delaying the evolution of cancer and prolonging the lives of sufferers.
The new drug, known as STA-4783, is the first in a new class called oxidative stress inducers. It works by rising the amount of reactive […]

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