https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Including blueberries, plums, blackberries, broad beans or cherries (washed down with green tea) in your recommended five-a-day (five 80g portions of fruit and vegetables, recommended by the UK's NHS) may be the best way to a healthier heart, new research suggests. The work, involving scientists from the University of Reading, Harvard Medical School, the University of California Davis, and Mars, Inc., found that fewer than one in five people reached the flavanol intake that has been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, even including those who regularly ate five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-fruits-vegetables-good-heart-health.html Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:01 EDT news699811201 Australia's regulator has suspended use of a common pesticide used on blueberries, raspberries and blackberries known as dimethoate. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-berries-safe-pesticide-dimethoate.html Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:24:03 EST news682327441 The American Indian Center's new Food is Medicine program marks a generational and culinary shift—through braised bison with a blackberry mole sauce, and a venison dip sandwich with giardiniera—for the cultural center to 65,000 Native Americans in the Chicago area. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11-american-indian-center-food-medicine.html Mon, 11 Nov 2024 07:00:01 EST news650529429 Regular urine color varies but usually ranges from clear to pale yellow. The exact hue depends on how much water you drink. Fluids dilute the yellow pigments in urine. So the more you drink, the clearer your urine looks. When you drink less, the yellow color becomes stronger. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-12-rainbow-urine-typical.html Fri, 08 Dec 2023 07:20:01 EST news621241440 Eating plant-based foods that contain dietary compounds called flavonols can lower your chances of developing frailty. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-flavonol-rich-foods-apples-blackberries-chances.html Tue, 23 May 2023 09:00:01 EDT news604040718 An apple a day might keep the doctor away, but experts say you need more kinds of fruit than that to maintain good health. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-01-fruits-experts-week-health.html Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:00:01 EST news593789184 A hepatitis A outbreak tied to blackberries sold in Fresh Thyme grocery stores now includes 16 confirmed cases in six states. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-12-hepatitis-outbreak-tied-berries-state.html Tue, 03 Dec 2019 16:26:50 EST news494612808 New insights into preventing herpes infections have been published in Nature Communications. Researchers from the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) at the MDC used single-cell RNA sequencing to better understand the viral infections. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-10-herpes-virus.html Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:22:18 EDT news491210525 UT Dallas doctoral student Kaitlyn Burnell and postdoctoral research associate Justin Vollet studied Instagram and three other social platforms as they traced the pathway from passive social media use to depressive symptoms. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-09-psychologists-mental-toll-passive-social.html Thu, 26 Sep 2019 07:49:25 EDT news488702957 (HealthDay)—Ounce for ounce and calorie for calorie, leafy greens and other types of vegetables are the hands-down favorites for delivering on nutrients. But many fruits should also have a place at the table. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-05-fruits-diet.html Thu, 16 May 2019 11:05:36 EDT news477223496 Blueberries, and berries in general, are among foods labeled as "diabetes superfoods" by the American Association of Diabetes. Food science researchers at the University of Illinois have found that fermenting berries may improve their antidiabetic potential even more. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-11-berry-wine-alcohol-diabetes.html Wed, 02 Nov 2016 07:05:13 EDT news397289091 As far as healthy foods go, berries make the top of the list. They contain potent antioxidants, which decrease or reverse the effects of free radicals – natural byproducts of energy production that can play havoc on the body and that are closely linked with heart disease, cancer, arthritis, stroke or respiratory diseases. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-12-antioxidant-fruit-black-raspberries.html Mon, 07 Dec 2015 08:38:57 EST news368699931 Feijoa and blackberry are two fruits with a strong anti-inflammatory effect that could help people with inflammatory diseases, according to recent research from the University of Auckland. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-01-feijoa-blackberry-inflammation.html Tue, 06 Jan 2015 08:38:57 EST news339755930 The Blackberry vs. iPhone battle has been ongoing since Apple's 2007 phone debut, with no end in sight. That is until today. According to a study being presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), there is a clear winner when it comes to your health. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-blackberry-iphonethere-winner-health.html Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:27:51 EST news271654040