healthmedicinet_i_2017_4

How office lunch could be adding
INCHES to your waistline
Health food experts calculated calorie and fat
content in five typical lunches Office workers could
be eating up to 3,700...
Bangladeshi boy recovers from rare
skin condition
Mehdi Hassan, 8, from Bangladesh, was covered
in thick layers of itchy skin The rare condition left
him unable to touch...
Fish sting causes excruciatingly painful
syndrome
A schoolgirl has been left unable to walk after
being stung by a fish while playing in the sea on a
family holiday. Evie...
Ollie Gardiner’s cancer treatment fund
reaches £425k
More than £400,000 has been raised for a 12-yearold
boy who is undergoing pioneering treatment for
a brain tumour. Ollie...
Jump in junior doctors training as GPs
in Wales
There has been a 16% increase in the number of
junior doctors choosing to come to or stay in Wales
to train to become GPs,...
New gene discovered driving drug
resistance
Scanning electron micrograph of human T
lymphocyte or T cell. Credit: NIAID/NIH ...
How stress controls hemoglobin levels
in blood
Credit: Wikimedia Commons Our ability to breathe
oxygen is critical to...
Health policy researcher finds drug
monitoring reduces opioid
prescriptions, medicaid costs
In 2015, more than 30,000 Americans died from
overdosing on opioids, and a new study led by the
University of Georgia shows...
Increased risk of suicide during
university studies
Patients with OCD are 10 times more likely to
commit suicide, contrary to what was previously
thought. In a new study from...
Over 10,000 Canadian women per year
can stop taking blood thinners for
unexplained clots
A Canadian-led research group has developed and
validated a rule that could let half of women...
Mongolia has better palliative care than
many much wealthier nations
What comes to mind when you think of Mongolia?
My answer, probably like many people’s, was vast
empty space, those...
New potential treatment target for
inflammatory bowel disease patients
Inflamed mouse colon mucosa, with an expanded
population of intestinal stromal cells identified...
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