Category: HealthNews

There’s definitely something about grape seed extract as a cancer-fighter: after proving its worth for 10 years, researchers have discovered in laboratory tests that it kills prostate cancer cells while leaving healthy ones...

Patients with ME, or chronic fatigue syndrome, are low in red blood cell magnesium and benefit from magnesium therapy. That’s the conclusion of the first randomized placebo controlled, double blind trial (ie, one the medical...

With the news currently focusing on better treatments for dementia, there are five simple lifestyle changes you can make today that will lower your risk of ever getting it. Even adopting four of the five lifestyle changes when...

CT (computed tomography) scans are ‘seeing’ around 18 per cent of lung cancers that aren’t actually there, although with some cancers this rises to an astonishing 79 per cent of ‘false positives’. The inaccuracy of low-dose...

Could acupuncture be routinely prescribed by US doctors for pain relief? It could happen, according to a new study that found it works in children who have had their tonsils taken out. Doctors’ choices were narrowed earlier this...

Warfarin, the blood-thinning drug, doubles the risk of a stroke in the first week. Patients with irregular heartbeat are at special risk, with a 2.3 times increased chance of a stroke, usually by the third day after starting the...

After 50 years of mass immunisation, cases of whooping cough (pertussis) continue to rise. But why? It’s because the Vacs. actually encourages the growth of one of the bacterium responsible for the disease, researchers have...

Grandmother was right: an apple a day keeps the doctor away. More especially, it’s a life- saver that reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke, and is as effective as taking a statin drug. In fact, eating an apple a day...

Older women who are more likely to develop breast cancer should start eating more tomatoes, researchers suggest. The fruit regulates the hormones that can help prevent the disease. Eating tomatoes every day raises levels of...