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Cycling to work may feel like a path to certain death – particularly if you live in a big city like London. Buses, black cabs and HGVs are less than ideal road partners, but if you take the right precautions and build up your confidence – riding to work can be incredibly liberating. Why spend

In the two years since the Korey Stringer Institute (KSI) first assessed all 50 states and the District of Columbia on key health and safety policies for high school athletes, 31 states have adopted new policies—16 this year alone. With more than 7.8 million high school students participating in sanctioned sports each year, the need

BOSTON -Increasingly, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research has focused on the preclinical stage, when people have biological evidence of AD but no or minimal symptoms, and when interventions might have the potential to prevent future decline of older adults. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have shed important new light on this area, reporting in a

Researchers from the UCLA School of Dentistry have provided insight into how the mechanical process of bone loss works and have also identified a protein that is responsible for recycling of the cells that can also promote bone loss. The team showed that by eliminating a key protein responsible for the activation of bone loss,

A sports bra is a crucial piece of fitness kit – as anyone who has breasts will tell you. Boobs can be a serious hindrance to getting the most of a workout if they’re not securely strapped in. Too much bounce can be distracting, uncomfortable, painful and it can even cause long-term damage to breast

A group of Illinois parents has been in the news recently for taking advantage of a legal loophole in order to get their kids college financial aid: The parents are giving up custody of their kids in order to game the system. As a mom who’s currently engaged in a difficult custody battle of my

Mother, 47, claims wearing hair bobbles on her wrist for 30 years has given her carpal tunnel syndrome Lisa McLennan, from British Columbia, has developed carpal tunnel syndrome A friend told her she had been warned to stop wearing elastic on her wrist The common nerve condition causes pain and numbness in the hands and

Officials recall MORE batches of two drugs for Parkinson’s and epilepsy amid fears they were stored wrongly and could be ineffective Neupro and Vimpat are being recalled by the UK’s medicines regulator  There are concerns they were wrongly stored and may not work properly There was a recall of the same drugs from a different

(HealthDay)—In the July 19 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, recommendations are presented for use of the Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine. Susan L. Hills, M.B.B.S., from the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the CDC in Fort Collins, Colorado, and colleagues summarize the

Pancakes are one of the greatest foods of all time, but making them at home can leave something to be desired. Like, is there a reason why most pancake recipes make enough to feed a 10 person family? By the time you finally finish ladling batter into your skillet, the pancakes are cold and you’re

The Amazon Prime Day sale includes a huge discount on the Dyson Pure Cool Link Air Purifier. The Dyson air purifier is $299 compared to the regular price of $499. The air purifier has an intelligent design that tracks air quality and reacts automatically. Just like the summer, Amazon Prime Day is seriously heating up.

While most of us dream of a slow morning with sunshine streaming through the windows and birds chirping outdoors, reality looks more like an obnoxious-sounding alarm clock blaring through the darkness. Thankfully, science has provided the perfect alternative for anyone in a constant battle with their alarm clock: the Philips Wake-Up Light Alarm Clock ($90,

Scientists use ECSTASY to ‘cure alcoholics’: Four people give up heavy drinking after taking two doses of MDMA alongside psychotherapy in eight-week trial, study claims Scientists from Imperial College London teamed up with mental health workers They trialled a combination of counselling with taking the recreational drug None of the four people were drinking harmfully

For patients with Type 1 diabetes who don’t respond well to insulin or have other serious medical complications caused by their disease, pancreas transplantation offers hope for a cure. But obese candidates who need a pancreas transplant often are denied the procedure because of poor outcomes, including high rates of incision infections, which are linked

An early assessment reveals that a newly approved drug to treat migraines does not seem effective among patients who suffer from high-frequency migraines. The findings will be presented this week during the 61st annual scientific meeting of the American Headache Society in Philadelphia. Clinicians at OHSU in Portland, Oregon, conducted a retrospective chart review of

Young children are more likely to suffer severe, even life-threatening complications from the flu, but only around half of children in the US get the flu vaccine. A cheap and simple pamphlet about the flu, handed to parents in their pediatrician’s waiting room, can have a significant impact on increasing the uptake of the flu

Hormone therapy for prostate cancer increases risk of DEMENTIA by 20%, study finds The large study in the US looked at nearly 155,000 men with an average age of 74  It found those given the therapy had a 20% increased risk of any type of dementia  A hormone therapy used to treat prostate cancer in men

The fourth of July lands on a Thursday this year and if you’re lucky enough to get Thursday and Friday off from work, that means two extra days of patriotic partying. You’ve probably already planned your BBQ menu (if not, we’ve got some ideas for you) but what about the cocktails? It’s easy to pop

Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School have uncovered a potential mechanism behind cancer suppression in bats that may lead to future therapies for human cancers. The research shows that bat cells accumulate less toxic chemicals than human cells, where these chemicals are moved out of the system mediated by a cell surface pump protein, known as

Scientists discover a hunger ‘switchboard’ in the brain – and may soon be able to turn your appetite ‘on’ or ‘off’ Researchers at the University of Arizona discovered a complex network of brain regions that communicate to tell us when we are hungry or sated They found that they could use chemicals to turn ‘off’