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Ten years on, the SARS outbreak that changed Hong Kong

With its bustling streets, shops and busy restaurants, little suggests that ten years ago Amoy Gardens was on the front line of Hong Kong's battle with a virus that caused a global health crisis.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 15, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Green tea, coffee may help lower stroke risk

Green tea and coffee may help lower your risk of having a stroke, especially when both are a regular part of your diet, according to research published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Cardiology created Mar 14, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Study shows how vitamin E can help prevent cancer

Researchers have identified an elusive anti-cancer property of vitamin E that has long been presumed to exist, but difficult to find.

Cancer created Mar 14, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Normal prion protein regulates iron metabolism

An iron imbalance caused by prion proteins collecting in the brain is a likely cause of cell death in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have found.

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Mar 13, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mutated gene causes nerve cell death

Researchers identify new mechanism in the onset of incurable nerve disease The British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is likely to be the world's most famous person living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ...

Medical research created Mar 13, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study links US mortality rates under age 50 to life expectancy lagging other high-income countries

(Medical Xpress)—Higher mortality rates among Americans younger than 50 are responsible for much of why life expectancy is lower in the United States than most of the world's most developed nations.

Health created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Weight gain after quitting smoking does not negate health benefits

An analysis of data from the Framingham Offspring Study – a long-term study that follows children of participants in the original Framingham Heart Study – may have answered a question that has troubled individuals considering ...

Health created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

In seriously ill kids, obesity may be tied to higher death risk: study

(HealthDay News) —Obese children hospitalized for certain serious illnesses may have a higher risk of dying than thinner patients, a new research review suggests.

Pediatrics created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

No benefit found from BP drug in treatment of recently hospitalized heart failure patients

Despite high hopes that a blood pressure-lowering medication called aliskiren would help people following hospitalization for heart failure, no beneficial effects were found, according to research presented today at the American ...

Cardiology created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Car crashes overlooked killer of unborn babies

Motor vehicle crashes involving mothers-to-be account for more than half of all New Zealand's foetal deaths due to maternal injury, new University of Otago research reveals.

Health created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fertilisers could help tackle nutritional deficiency in African country, researchers say

Enriching crops by adding a naturally-occurring soil mineral to fertilisers could potentially help to reduce disease and premature death in the African country of Malawi, researchers have said.

Health created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Steroids may help reduce deaths from all types of tuberculosis

The routine use of steroids to treat tuberculosis may help reduce deaths from all types of the disease, according to a new review of existing research.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Combination therapy for heart failure does not reduce risk of CV death or rehospitalization

Among patients hospitalized for heart failure (HF) with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF; a measure of how well the left ventricle of the heart pumps with each contraction), initiation of the medication aliskiren ...

Cardiology created Mar 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

No increase in risk of death for patients with well-controlled HIV, reports AIDS journal

For HIV-infected patients whose disease is well-controlled by modern treatment, the risk of death is not significantly higher than in the general population, according to a study published in AIDS, official journal of the Intern ...

HIV & AIDS created Mar 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sudden death in young athletes: Important causes not identified by the screening process

Even though young athletes are required to receive health screens to be cleared to play sports, those tests failed to detect important cardiovascular abnormalities in cleared players, and many were allowed to play despite ...

Cardiology created Mar 10, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0