Data collected during a long-term health study provides additional evidence for a link between increased risk of cancer in individuals
Month: January 2018
Bariatric surgery prolongs lifespan in obese
Bariatric surgery reduced the death rate than the use of traditional medical treatment in obese patients over a 10-year period.
Breastfeeding reduces the risk of diabetes
Breastfeeding for six months or longer reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes nearly in half for women throughout
How babies develop new skills
Researchers at Penn State are using new statistical analysis methods to compare how infants develop new skills with the unseen
Brain cells may prevent Parkinson’s disease
A Norwegian study shows that impairment in mitochondria may actually protect the brain in Parkinson’s disease. Mitochondria are microscopic power
Time-lapse images of embryos for IVF
A new IVF method that takes thousands of pictures of embryos to select the best eggs has increased the likelihood
Changes in fat metabolism increases the risk of prostate cancer metastasis
Nature Communications, researchers at the Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) shed new light on the genetic
High salt diet hobbles the brain
A new study has shown that mice fed with a very high-salt diet experienced declined blood flow to their brain,
How immune system’s organ regenerates
A molecule called BMP4 that plays a key role in the thymus’s extraordinary natural ability to recover from damage. Dr.
Mould in lungs causes asthma
A team at The University of Manchester have found that in a minority of patients they studied, a standard treatment