Health

October is National Cholesterol month in the UK. HEART is a UK-based charity that aims to raise awareness of the risks of high cholesterol. In 2019, they are encouraging people to take 13,177 steps up to help raise awareness and funds for the charity. Cholesterol plays a big part in the state of your health, so here are 10 facts...Read More

A team of scientists have found that people with a high genetic risk for dementia could lower their risk if they were to follow a healthy lifestyle. The scientists were based at the University of Exeter and the results were both published in JAMA, a peer-reviewed science journal and presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Los Angeles in...Read More

A US team of scientists have found that almost 9% of women with no symptoms of a urinary tract infection, were carrying E.coli bacteria which were multi-drug resistant. The study has been published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and the abstract is available to read online. The scientists were from the University of Washington/UW Medicine. Escherichia coli (E.coli) is a bacteria...Read More

Type 2 diabetes is on the increase: currently around 4.7 people have diabetes and of those, around 90% have type 2. This disease causes disability because of the organs that can be affected. Scientists are working on understanding as much about the disease as they can, in order to find new ways to help patients. Here are three studies that...Read More

In the UK, GPs and Vets have been warned to cut back on use of antibiotics as the threat of antibiotic resistance grows ever closer, while in some developing countries, antibiotics are scarce and local people rely on knowledge of medicinal qualities of plants. Some scientists are focusing on a different area - to prove the antibiotic qualities of some...Read More

Scientists have tested whether dogs and their owners synchronise their stress levels. The scientists, from the Linkoping University in Sweden, hypothesised that because dogs and their owners live so closely, that their emotional states could be contagious. The results of the study, which aimed to prove that there could be an interspecific synchronisation in stress levels, long-term between humans and...Read More