Cutting calories ‘boosts memory’
Reducing what you eat by nearly a third may improve memory, according to German researchers.
Archive for January, 2009
IVF pregnancy from screened egg
The world’s first pregnancy using a new technique for screening eggs has been announced by a fertility clinic in Nottingham.
Sex drive link to prostate cancer
Men who are more sexually active in their 20s and 30s may run a higher risk of prostate cancer, research suggests.
Older people ‘fare badly in NHS care’
Doctors specialising in the care of older people suggest that the NHS fails them and is institutionally ageist.
Concussion effect ’spans decades’
People concussed in their youth show subtle signs of mental and physical problems even more than 30 years later, say researchers.
Worry over tan jab mole changes
An unlicensed medicine which can be injected for a tan may be responsible for skin mole changes, say doctors.
Confusion on acupuncture benefit
A review of acupuncture has concluded that it is hard to find a difference between “true” and “sham” versions.
Premature octuplets ‘doing well’
All eight octuplets born prematurely in the US are breathing on their own and doing “very, very well”, doctors say.
Cutting calories ‘boosts memory’
Reducing what you eat by nearly a third may improve memory, according to German researchers.
IVF pregnancy from screened egg
The world’s first pregnancy using a new technique for screening eggs has been announced by a fertility clinic in Nottingham.