Source: Reuters Losing fitness or packing on fat with age each can be bad for the heart ‒ but avoiding either one of those fates may protect the heart, a study published Monday suggests. US researchers found that of more than 3,100 healthy adults they followed, those who improved ‒ or simply maintained ‒ their ...
by Jared Heng Dr Eitan Konstantino, President and CEO of TriReme Medical A new medical device, the first of its kind produced in Singapore to be recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), seeks to treat peripheral arterial disease (PAD) with much greater efficacy than conventional solutions. Called the Chocolate PTA Balloon ...
Source: Reuters Chinese legends have long extolled the benefits of the Tian Shan Xue Lian, a rare white flower found in snow-capped mountains that is revered as a panacea, an elixir so powerful it can supposedly bring the dead back to life. But in laboratories in Shanghai and Hong Kong, scientists are poring over ...
Source: Reuters Older adults who took vitamin B12 and folic acid supplements for two years had greater improvements on short- and long-term memory tests than adults who did not take the vitamins, according to an Australian study. The benefits were modest but encouraging, said author Janine Walker, a researcher at Australian National University, of the ...
Source: Reuters While having a cat as a kid may protect against future allergies, getting one in adulthood nearly doubles the chances of developing an immune reaction to it ‒ the first step towards wheezing, sneezing and itchy eyes. That’s according to a study that found people with other allergies were at extra high risk ...
Source: Reuters A single treatment with gene therapy, an experimental technique for fixing faulty genes, has been shown to boost output of a vital blood clotting factor, possibly offering a long-term solution for people with haemophilia B. Researchers said the same technology was also being studied as a treatment for haemophilia A, the far more ...
Source: Reuters Despite plenty of evidence that people with low levels of “good” cholesterol are more prone to heart attacks, a large new study suggests that the lacking lipid is not to blame. The analysis of data on nearly 70,000 people in Denmark affirmed the link between low levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), the so-called ...
Source: Reuters Normal-weight adults, including those who had lost a lot of weight and kept it off, ate more often than overweight people in a new study looking at factors that may help in preventing weight gain. Researchers following about 250 people for a year found that overweight individuals ate fewer snacks in addition to ...
Source: Reuters People who eat a lot of unfermented soy products such as tofu may have a smaller chance of getting lung cancer, a fresh look at past research suggests. There is still no proof that soy itself is protective, but compounds in the soy called isoflavones have been shown to slow cancer cell growth ...
Source: Reuters Reducing salt in the diets of the general population may not have an overall positive health impact, according to a review of more than 160 scientific studies published earlier this month. In an analysis that fuels a row over the health effects of salt, researchers writing in the American Journal of Hypertension and ...
