Archive: 05/10/2016
Vitamin E may prevent pneumonia in nonsmoking elderly men
Administration of 50 mg per day of vitamin E decreased the risk of pneumonia in elderly male smokers by 72% after they quit smoking, according to a paper published in Clinical Interventions in Aging.
Oct 5, 2016
Radiotherapy and chemotherapy give same quality of life
Brain tumour patients that have been treated with radiation have as good quality of life as patients that have undergone chemotherapy. This is revealed in an international study published in The Lancet Oncology, to which ...
Oct 5, 2016
Researchers find that repealing or revising ACA would be challenging
In response to calls to eliminate the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a group of researchers led by Etti Baranoff, Ph.D., associate professor in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business, has released a study ...
Oct 5, 2016
Higher suicide risk for early self-harmers
Young adult self-harmers run a higher risk of also committing suicide, a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in the journal Psychological Medicine reports. The risk of suicide is 16 times higher in people who have ...
Oct 5, 2016