Archive: 13/01/2017

3 million deaths linked to outdoor air pollution annually

In a report released in 2016, the World Health Organization revealed that more than 90 percent of the world's population lives in areas with high levels of air pollution, and that every year, close to three million deaths ...

Jan 13, 2017

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Good long-term results of obesity surgery in young people

Bariatric surgery on teenagers gives results that are equally as good as for adults, but the operations carries complications. Five years after surgery, the patients weighed on average 28 per cent less than beforehand, a ...

Jan 13, 2017

Protein that inhibits and reduces the effects of chemotherapy identified

Researchers at Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet and their colleagues from Science for Life Laboratories (SciLifeLab) and Heidelberg University have identified a protein that determines the efficacy ...

Jan 13, 2017

Chronic illness and depression increase likelihood of problem drinking in older adults

Older adults suffering from multiple chronic health conditions and depression are nearly ﬁve times as likely to be problem drinkers as older adults with the same conditions and no depression, according to researchers at ...

Jan 13, 2017

Despite lower profile, Zika remains a high concern

Even though the Zika virus hasn't been in the news as much lately, it remains a serious public health concern.

Jan 13, 2017

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Sugar stands accused

Sugar was in the dock at Harvard Law School this week, accused of a prime role in the twin epidemics of obesity and diabetes sweeping the country.

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Electroconvulsive therapy—a history of controversy, but also of help

Carrie Fisher's ashes are in an urn designed to look like a Prozac pill. It's fitting that in death she continues to be both brash and wryly funny about a treatment for depression.

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Sunbed users get melanoma at a younger age

Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer with the strongest increase in incidence in the last decade, and the incidence rates have never been as high as in 2014 (www.kreftregisteret.no). Now there are about 2,000 ...

Jan 13, 2017