Cocoa only reduces blood pressure and arterial stiffness when elevated, a new study from the University of Surrey finds. Cocoa flavanols have previously been found to lower blood pressure and arterial stiffness as much as some blood pressure medication. However, how effective flavanols are in everyday life in reducing blood pressure has remained unknown, as previous studies in this area […]

More salad and apples, less McDonald’s and KFC. Those are just a couple of the dietary changes that people appeared to make during the first year of the pandemic, enalapril nombre comercial en costa rica according to a new study led by Boston University School of Public Health researchers. The widespread lockdowns and restaurant closures of 2020 drastically altered daily […]

A pandemic-related shortage of a mundane item—tubes to collect blood samples from patients—has caused headaches for health systems worldwide. But it may also have a silver lining: A lesson in how to reduce unneeded medical tests, whether or not there’s a shortage, according to a new study. The shortage of “blue top” blood test tubes gave researchers a chance to […]

Gloria Hunniford talks about her daughter's battle with cancer We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Cancer describes a condition in which some of your cells start […]

COVID-19 may have changed UK doctors’ end-of-life decision-making, making them more willing to not resuscitate very sick and/or frail patients and raising the threshold for referral to intensive care, warfarin effect delay suggest the results of a snapshot survey published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics. But the pandemic hasn’t altered their views on euthanasia and physician-assisted dying, with […]

A new study published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes [EASD]) finds that following a time-restricted eating (TRE) protocol, which limits food intake to a maximum 10-hour time window, shows promising beneficial metabolic effects in adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D). The research was conducted by Prof. Patrick Schrauwen, Charlotte Andriessen and colleagues […]

Nature creates layered materials like bone and mother-of-pearl that become less sensitive to defects as they grow. Now researchers have created, using biomimetic proteins patterned on squid ring teeth, composite layered 2D materials that are resistant to breaking and extremely stretchable. Researchers rarely reported this interface property for the bone and nacre because it was difficult to measure experimentally." Melik […]

This Morning: Dr Ellie on link between dogs and hepatitis We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Today, an investigation has confirmed the outbreak may not have […]

Exposure to extreme heat increases both chronic and acute malnutrition among infants and young children in low-income countries – threatening to reverse decades of progress, Cornell research finds. Linking survey and geocoded weather data over more than 20 years, a study of more than 32,000 West African children ages 3-36 months found that average heat exposure had increased the prevalence […]

Sting demonstrates 'perpetual crunch' exercise on TikTok We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info The reason for this is because there are two schools of thought regarding […]