by Research Team | Sep 15, 2015 | Health News
There’s good news in a National Institutes of Health study for Americans over 50 suffering from high blood pressure — keep the pressure below 120 to reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke. The NIH was so eager to get the news out that it decided to...
by Research Team | Sep 15, 2015 | Health News
A government task force says a daily low-dose aspirin could help certain people in their 50s and 60s prevent a first heart attack or stroke – and they might get some protection against colon cancer at the same time. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued...
by Research Team | Sep 15, 2015 | Health News
Researchers combined data from 16 earlier studies that had compared pesticide exposure between children who developed leukemia or lymphoma and those who did not. These studies estimated the level of insecticides and herbicides both inside the home and in the yard and...
by Research Team | Sep 15, 2015 | Health News
A Los Angeles based HIV/AIDS organization says it has collected enough signatures for a statewide ballot measure that, if approved by voters, would enforce condom use on adult film sets in California. Officials with AIDS Healthcare Foundation and the group For Adult...
by Research Team | Sep 15, 2015 | Health News
Women with diabetes are 40% more likely to have a heart attack than their male counterparts, according to two studies Women with diabetes have around a 40% increased risk of suffering a heart attack compared with diabetic men, two studies have suggested. Those aged 45...
by Research Team | Sep 15, 2015 | Health News
The BC Centre for Disease Control says the flu season begins in a just a few weeks and more doctors and nurses must help monitor outbreaks while evaluating the quality of this year’s vaccine. Health care practitioners are urged to join the Canadian Sentinel...
