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A team of scientists have been examining how people with dementia and their carers can live well with the disease. The team, from the University of Exeter, have published two papers in Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, one for carers and one for the patients. The studies have been published on a creative commons licence which enables them to be...Read More

A UK study has found that mindfulness could help people who are obese, lose weight. The scientists, based at Warwick University, Coventry ran a small study and found statistically significant weightloss among a group of people who were already attending an obesity clinic. The results were published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, which is a peer-reviewed journal...Read More

According to research from Asthma UK, one of the UK’s leading asthma charities, around 5.4 million people are being treated for asthma and an average of 3 people a day die from the condition. Asthma affects the airways of the lungs, restricting their ability to take in and breathe out air. The condition should never be taken lightly as it...Read More

A team of US scientists have discovered that including the calories with pictures of food, for example, on a menu, can help people make healthier food choices. The scientists used a MRI scanner to detect brain reactions to the pictures to enable them to understand what effect this could have. The article was published in PLOS ONE and is an...Read More

The term ‘ear’ is often taken to mean the outside of the ear, but the anatomy of the ear extends to the hearing apparatus on the inside of the head too. The ear function is not only to hear, but to enable the brain to determine the position of the head and body and also maintain balance. The anatomy of...Read More

Recent medical studies have agreed that in order for people to live a long and healthy life, they need to get up and exercise more. Sedentary lives create health issues. Most countries offer government-recommended guidelines to help people know how much exercise they need to do, but there are many different kinds of exercise and it can be confusing to...Read More