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A new US study found that older patients who survived severe sepsis were more likely to experience signficant mental and physical decline, in some cases not unlike dementia, and suggested this was an unrecognized public health problem with major implications not only for patients but also for families and healthcare providers. You can read how [...]

It’s common knowledge that calcium plays an important role in maintaining strong, healthy bones later in life. For women who have passed their reproductive years, this fact is especially true. But according to new research from Italy, there may be another important reason for postmenopausal women to keep an eye on their calcium levels. Italian [...]

Photo: Flickr, CC “Women living in the areas with the highest levels of pollution were almost twice as likely to develop breast cancer” A study recently published by researchers based in Montréal, Canada, has found a worrying correlation between markers for air pollution and breast cancer. The scientists used detailed historical air-pollution map tracking nitrogen [...]

Researchers from Israel and the USA believe they have found evidence that demonstrates a link between obesity and metabolic disorders and exposure to LAN (light at night) in animal studies. In an article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences they found that mice exposed to dim light during their sleeping hours for [...]

Over half of the reduction in the global mortality of children under 5 years of age is linked to increased education among females of reproductive age, says a reports from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, published in the medical journal The Lancet. Sixteen million children under the age of five [...]

The research just keeps piling up — more and more scientists are reporting a possible link between type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease (and similar conditions). Earlier this month we discussed a study whereby dementia (such as Alzheimer’s) was found to be more prevalent among people with type 2 diabetes. And a study from the [...]

The European Commission asked the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) to investigate whether GlaxoSmithKline’s flu jab, Panemrix is linked to a higher risk of developing narcoplepsy. The EMEA says the investigation is now underway. Some cases of narcolepsy were reported in Finland and Sweden – the EMEA says they were all “collected through spontaneous reporting systems”. [...]

Regular alcohol intake raises the risk of developing lobular and hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, but does not appear to be linked to invasive ductal carcinoma risk, says a report published in JNCI (Journal of the National Cancer Institute), August 23rd issue. This is the first major study to look at a possible relationship between alcohol [...]

People with an elevated resting heart rate, meaning a high pulse rate when resting, which persists over the long term is linked to a significant risk of death, caused by either heart disease or something else, say scientists from the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, after completing a study involving 9,193 [...]

source Earlier this year, a joint research study conducted by Harvard and the University of Montreal reinforced an earlier 2007 study which found a strong connection between pesticide exposure and Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in children. This more recent study coming out of Harvard/Montreal, focused on Organophosphate derived pesticides, in particular. This family of chemicals is [...]