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Australian experts are divided over fresh British research which says the oral contraceptive pill is good for women.
The study published in the British Medical Journal says women who have taken the pill are less likely to die from any cause, including all cancers and heart disease, compared with those who have never used it.
The UK [...]

London, Sept 18 (ANI): Middle-aged smokers with high cholesterol and blood pressure face a ten-year cut in their lives, warns a new study.

The warning follows an Oxford University study of 19,000 men over an average of 38 years.

According to researchers, the deadly combo cuts life expectancy by 10 years compared with individuals who do not [...]

London, Sept 16 (ANI): Supervised exercise helps ease chronic shoulder pain better than sound shockwave treatment, a new study suggests.

In the study, published in the online British Medical Journal, team of researchers based in Oslo, Norway compared the effectiveness of radial extracorporeal shockwave treatment (low to medium energy impulses delivered into the tissue) with supervised [...]

London, Aug 28 (ANI): A new study by researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands has suggested that a soluble fibre supplement called psyllium should be the first line of attack in treating irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

In the study, researchers compared adding bran, psyllium and a [...]

London, August 21 (ANI): Pregnant women are being recommended against the use of Doppler devices, an ultrasound transducer used to detect the baby’s heartbeat, at home.

Dr Thomas Aust and colleagues from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Arrowe Park Hospital, in British Medical [...]

Wellington, July 15 (ANI): Kiwi actor Sam Neill has been slammed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for promoting red meat in a new ad.

The PETA officials have dubbed the ‘Dean Spanley’ star “pimp for an industry” that kills animals as well as [...]

London, July 9 (ANI): Scientists have come up with a new test that can help predict a person’s risk of heart disease more accurately.

An independent external validation of QRISK, a new score for predicting a heart disease risk has been found to be more accurate than the existing test.

Researchers from the University of Oxford [...]

Washington, July 8 (ANI): A government awareness program in England, devised to cut down teenage pregnancies, drunkenness or cannabis use, had no impact, suggests a study.

Lead authors Meg Wiggins of the Institute of Education, University of London, and Chris Bonell at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, say that the Young People’s [...]

London, July 7 (ANI): Perceptions of the swine flu outbreak led only few people to alter their behaviour, suggests a study.

Scientists at Institute of Psychiatry King’s College London and the Health Protection Agency carried out the research to assess public perceptions, anxiety, and behaviour change in relation to the outbreak.

Partakers were quizzed about their recent [...]

London, July 3 (ANI): People who live alone in middle age face nearly double the risk of developing dementia in later life compared with married or cohabiting counterparts, according to a new study.

The study suggested that having a partner offers protection against mental decline in later life.

Researchers also found that people who live alone in [...]

London, July 1 (ANI): Cholesterol lowering drugs Statins could decrease the risk of heart attacks in healthy people by 30 per cent, according to a new study.

In the study of more than 70,000 patients, scientists also found that drugs could slashed the chance of having a stroke by 19 per cent and reduced mortality by [...]

London, May 22 (ANI): A new study has shown that use of simple blood test and improving communication skills would help doctors prescribe fewer antibiotics to patients.

The joint trial from Cardiff University found that GPs in primary care who underwent training in advanced communications skills and those who made [...]

London, May 20 (ANI): Individuals aged 55 and above should be given blood pressure lowering drugs- even if their reading is normal, a London-based expert says.

Epidemiology expert Professor Malcolm Law’s research found the medication cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes regardless of a person’s blood pressure.

Drugs such as beta blockers and ACE [...]

London, May 15 (ANI): While fortifying grain products with folic acid has been found to be effective in preventing neural tube defects in Canada, scientists have now found that this form of vitamin B also prevents congenital heart defects.

McGill University researchers in Montreal have found in a [...]

Hong Kong- A Hong Kong anti-smoking campaigner who for a quarter of a century has been a thorn in the side of the tobacco industry in Asia was Sunday celebrating a major international award for her crusading work. Dr Judith Mackay, labeled one of the three most dangerous people in the world in a leaked [...]

London, Apr 3 (ANI): Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) can help smokers kick the habit even when they don’t think they are ready, says a new study.

The British Medical Journal study is the first of its kind to focus on sustained smoking abstinence using NRT for smokers who have no immediate plans to stop smoking.

To reach [...]

London, Mar 27 (ANI): Women who stop smoking early enough in pregnancy can cut the risk of having premature or small babies, says a new study.

The British Medical Journal study suggests that pregnant females who do not quit by 15 weeks, are three times more likely to give birth prematurely and twice as likely to [...]

London, Mar 27 (ANI): Follow your mum’s advice and drink tea five to ten minutes after making, for a new study has found, steaming tea increases the risk of throat cancer.

The British Medical Journal research claims that drinking very hot tea (70 degree Celsius or more) can raise the risk of cancer of the oesophagus, [...]

London, Mar 20 (ANI): Google needs to keep a strict check on the its advertisements and suggested links to avoid providing users with web pages that contain dubious medical claims, warn doctors.

While writing in British Medical Journal, Dr Marco Masoni from the University of Florence in Italy revealed that as [...]

London, Mar 20 (ANI): Maggot (larval) therapy for leg ulcers has the same health benefits and costs as a standard treatment for the problem, according to two studies.

Published in the online edition of the British Medical Journal, the studies describe leg ulcers as chronic wounds most commonly [...]