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Obesity and alcohol responsible for nearly 30,000 cases of breast cancers in the next decade

28.03.2019 Health Problems

Maintaining a healthy weight and not consuming alcohol regularly could help prevent thousands of breast cancer cases, a new big data study by UNSW Sydney researchers has found. The findings could help inform future cancer control strategies. The large collaborative study led by UNSW’s Centre for Big Data Research in Health was published in the International Journal of Cancer. It […]

Newly single? How to beat the breakup blues

27.03.2019 Health Problems

Whether you dated for weeks, months or years—when it ends, you can experience a range of emotions and feel a little uncertain about what’s next. Research even shows the pain from a breakup can activate pain receptors in our brain the same way that physical injuries do. When you’re feeling down and out, how do you beat the breakup blues? […]

Untangling the brain’s life-support network

27.03.2019 Health Problems

The portion of the brain known as the hypothalamus is small but mighty—it controls fundamental behaviors and physiology that are essential for survival. These include eating and drinking, sexual and defensive behaviors, sleep, and physiological control of things like body temperature, fluid balance, and the body’s responses to stress. A USC Dornsife-led study, published in the Proceedings of the National […]

How the obesity epidemic is taking a toll on our bones and joints

25.03.2019 Health Problems

Deb Baranec wasn’t always obese. As a teenager, she carried a few extra pounds but managed it by being active. Her weight crept up, however, and by the time she suffered her first knee injury while skiing at the age of 27, she weighed close to 200 pounds. Doctors advised Baranec to lose weight to relieve the stress on her […]

Queen’s Former Spokesman Calls Meghan’s NYC Baby Shower a ‘Bit Over the Top’

21.03.2019 Kids Health

Duchess Meghan caused waves around the world when she secretly flew to America to have a baby shower in February. But there was one person who was not particularly impressed by the soirée: Queen Elizabeth II’s former press spokesman, Dickie Arbiter. “Baby showers, it’s very much an American thing,” he explains to Us Weekly. “We don’t do it here in […]

Researchers predict 1.4 million deaths from all cancers in 2019 in the EU

19.03.2019 Health Problems

Death rates from breast cancer are predicted to fall in all European Union (EU) countries in 2019 with the exception of Poland, according to new research published in the leading cancer journal Annals of Oncology today. In their annual predictions for cancer deaths in the EU, Carlo La Vecchia (MD), Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Milan (Italy), […]

Strength training may reduce the risk of diabetes in obesity

16.03.2019 Health Problems

Strength training over a short time period can reduce fat stores in the liver and improve blood glucose control in obese mice, according to a study published in the Journal of Endocrinology. The study reports that strength training over a short time-period, less than would be enough to change body fat composition in humans, was sufficient to reduce the accumulation […]

The Red Growth in This Woman's Belly Button Turned Out to Be an Aggressive Form of Cancer

14.03.2019 Health Problems

What would you do if you discovered a weird red bubble growing in your belly button? If your answer is “seek medical attention immediately,” you’ve definitely got the right idea. Because as a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine shows, that kind of symptom can be a sign of cancer that needs to be treated ASAP. The […]

The Hidden Danger of Yo-Yo Dieting You Need to Know About

09.03.2019 Beauty & Balance

It’s a scenario so many women can relate to: You succeed at losing weight, only to gain it back six months later. You shed the pounds again, but they return…and the cycle continues. This up-and-down routine is the definition of yo-yo dieting, and as a new study shows, the term isn’t reserved only for people who yo-yo drastic amounts of weight. Preliminary research presented at this […]

A new machine learning model can classify lung cancer slides at the pathologist level

04.03.2019 Health Problems

Machine learning has improved dramatically in recent years and shown great promise in the field of medical image analysis. A team of research specialists at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center have utilized machine learning capabilities to assist with the challenging task of grading tumor patterns and subtypes of lung adenocarcinoma, the most common form of the leading cause of cancer-related […]

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