The Ebola virus has now killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa. Although the mortality rate of the most recent outbreak isn't as high as in previous events, it's still the case that most people who become infected with Ebola will not survive. (The mortality rate is about 60 percent for the current outbreak, compared with 90 percent in the past, according to the National Institutes of Healt
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Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
New Study Finds Barbecued Meat and Chicken Increase Risk of Kidney Cancer
Hello Guys.It's an Amazing Study found by Researchers that Barbecued Stuff is a Ticket to Kidney Cancer.It's True, Stop enjoying with your Family, Friends or Colleagues going to Farm Houses or any parks or something else making Barbecue and Enjoying it.
A diet high in barbecued meat may increase the risk of developing kidney cancer, scientists have found.
The new study comes just a week aft
How Music Helps People With Alzheimer's Disease
Guys if you aren't aware of it,So Don't worryWhat is Alzheimer's DiseaseAlzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, a general term for memory loss and other intellectual abilities serious enough to interfere with daily life. Alzheimer's disease accounts for 60 to 80 percent of dementia cases. Alzheimer's is not a normal part of aging, although the greatest known risk factor is increasin
Red Meat and Cancer: 6 Expert Nutrition Tips You must Focus
Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you'll know that earlier this week the World Health Organization declared processed meat as definitively carcinogenic to humans and red meat as "probably" carcinogenic. As a nutritionist and an avid follower of dietary trends and analysis, I found this one interesting. Vegetarians and vegans rejoiced and the media cranked out a combination of sensationalist
Go Ahead and Have Fun: Sex Doesn't Cause Heart Attacks, Study Finds
Patients with heart disease can worry about one less thing: German researchers find sex doesn't seem to trigger heart attacks, strokes or other unpleasant events.The American Heart Association advises that sex after a heart attack is OK.But patients don't always get that message, says Dr. Dietrich Rothenbacher, who led a small study at Ulm University in Germany.It seems very unlikely that sexual
Short Sleepers May Catch More Colds
Want to avoid catching a cold this winter? Start by getting more than six hours of sleep a night.In what may be the first study of this kind, researchers say they found that adults who sleep less than five or six hours a night are four times more likely to catch a cold than than those who get at least seven or more hours of sleep.“Sleep plays a role in regulating the immune system, and that’s how
Why Do Muscles Ache a Day or Two After Exercise?
After rigorous exercise, the muscle pain is more acute a day or two later rather than immediately. Why is that?Welcome to the equivocal effects of delayed onset muscle soreness, the scientific term for aches that accumulate and intensify a day or two after a strenuous workout. Usually, D.O.M.S. involves not just pain but also “loss of strength and range of motion in the affected area,” said Scott
Addiction V/s Habit The Difference You need to know
People with an addiction do not have control over what they are doing, taking or using. Their addiction may reach a point at which it is harmful. Addictions do not only include physical things we consume, such as drugs or alcohol, but may include virtually anything, such abstract things as gambling to seemingly harmless products, such as chocolate - in other words, addiction may refer to a substa
Aspirin trial to examine if it can stop cancer returning
The world's largest clinical trial to examine whether aspirin can prevent cancers returning has begun in the UK.
About 11,000 people who have had early bowel, breast, prostate, stomach and oesophageal cancer will be involved.
Uncertainty about the drug's possible anti-cancer qualities has led to fierce medical debate in recent years.
If it is proven to work, scientists say it would be "game-
Processed meats do cause cancer According To WHO
Processed meats - such as bacon, sausages and ham - do cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Its report said 50g of processed meat a day - less than two slices of bacon - increased the chance of developing colorectal cancer by 18%.
Meanwhile, it said red meats were "probably carcinogenic" but there was limited evidence.
The WHO did stress that meat also had health b
