Category: Health

Wed 17 Apr 2019: Israeli researchers are claiming a “major medical breakthrough” by successfully producing the world’s first 3D vascularized, artificially-engineered heart, made using a patient’s own cells. Until now, 3D printing has only been used to produce simple tissues without blood vessels, including making the structure of a heart but without the necessary vascular […]

Mon 15 Apr 2019: A drug that’s used to help control blood sugar in people with diabetes has now been shown to help prevent or slow kidney disease, which causes millions of deaths each year and requires hundreds of thousands of people to use dialysis to stay alive. Doctors say it’s hard to overstate the […]

Sat 13 Apr 2019: Diabetes is becoming one of the biggest health scares around the world. The metabolic disorder which used to affect only a select few a while back has now afflicted countless youth and middle-aged men and women too. Diabetes is defined as a condition in which the body’s blood sugar levels are […]

Thu 11 Apr 2019 Firm selling vanilla-flavoured formulas in Hong Kong despite advertising products in China as healthy options, says report Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, has broken a pledge to end the use of vanilla flavourings in baby milk powders, according to a report. The Swiss multinational has continued to sell vanilla-flavoured infant formulas in […]

Mon 8 Apr 2019 The life expectancy of a child born today could be reduced by an average of 20 months due to health damage caused by air pollution, researchers said. In South Asia, where air pollution levels are the highest, the life expectancy for children born in countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh falls by […]

Tens of thousands of people demonstrated Saturday in several Swiss cities against climate change, the Swiss news agency Keystone-ATS reported. Around 50,000 marched in all, the news agency report estimated, including 15,000 in Zurich and up to nine thousand in the capital Berne and in Lausanne. “It’s about knowing if finally we want to listen […]

Moderate drinking of one or two glasses a day does not protect against stroke, say researchers A low level of alcohol consumption does not protect against stroke, new research suggests, in the latest blow to the idea that a few drinks can be beneficial to health. At least 100,000 people have strokes in the UK every […]

Eating and drinking better could prevent one in five early deaths, researchers say Unhealthy diets are responsible for 11m preventable deaths globally per year, more even than smoking tobacco, according to a major study. But the biggest problem is not the junk we eat but the nutritious food we don’t eat, say researchers, calling for […]

NHS figures reveal 70.9m items to treat depression and anxiety were given out in 2018 There were more than 70m prescriptions for antidepressants in England last year, figures show. A total of 70.9m items to treat conditions including depression and anxiety were given out in 2018, according to data published by NHS Digital. This is almost double […]