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UK’s Food Standards Agency FSA launches saturated fat campaign to help prevent heart disease, the UK’s biggest killer.
Long term, a diet high in saturated fat can raise cholesterol levels in the blood, which is a risk factor for heart and circulatory diseases such as coronary heart disease, heart attacks, angina and stroke – or cardiovascular [...]

Studies suggest that talking on a hands-free cell phone while driving is just as dangerous as a handheld one.
A recent University of Utah study found that drivers engaging in a cell phone conversation on a headset were more likely to make errors behind the wheel than a driver talking to a front-seat passenger.
Carnegie Mellon University [...]

The LGA’s conviction that overweight children should become the subject of child protection procedures was reported under the headline “Fat children ’should be taken from parents’ to curb obesity epidemic — The Times.
When does severe childhood obesity become a child protection issue? This is just one of the ethical, medical and legal questions confronting doctors [...]

Chemists described the first identification of a specific “odor profile” for skin cancer, a discovery that could form the basis of a rapid, non-invasive test for diagnosing the most common type of cancer in the United States.
The findings may enable doctors in the future to diagnose skin cancer quickly and accurately by waving a handheld [...]

Drinking just 500ml of beetroot juice a day can significantly reduce blood pressure, revealed by researchers at Barts and The London School of Medicine in a new study.
Beetroot juice could have major implications for the treatment of cardiovascular disease.
It is the ingestion of dietary nitrate contained within beetroot juice – and similarly in green, leafy [...]

ANMUM’s premium nutritional milk formulas are specially designed to meet the needs of pregnant and nursing mothers.
ANMUM Materna – especially formulated for pregnant women.
ANMUM has been clinically proven to increase folate levels in women of childbearing age to levels that would decrease the risk of bearing a child with a Neural Tube Defect. It is [...]

Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion is the natural or spontaneous end of a pregnancy at a stage where the embryo or fetus is incapable of surviving, generally defined in humans at prior to 20 weeks of gestation.
 
Miscarriage is the common complication of early pregnancy. But sometimes peoples think that first pregnancy more likely to end in [...]

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can show signs of multiple sclerosis before disease develops in humans.
Multiple sclerosis (abbreviated MS, also known as disseminated sclerosis or encephalomyelitis disseminata) is an autoimmune condition in which the immune system attacks the central nervous system, leading to demyelination. Disease onset usually occurs in young adults, and it is more common [...]

An international research team co-led by the University of Michigan found six new genes that help explain body mass index and obesity, and all but one of the genes are tied to the brain rather than to metabolic functions, such as fat storage and sugar metabolism.

In addition to the six new genes, the study also [...]

A new study by Australian researchers confirms that many women believe that they become more forgetful during pregnancy. Their memory can be significantly impaired for at least a year after giving birth. Only some aspects of memory are affected, especially those of an unfamiliar or demanding kind, and the level of impairment is not large.
Why [...]