Tea, the second most consumed drink after water, may help lower blood pressure. Scientists at The University Of Western Australia and Unilever, state in Archives of Internal Medicine, that drinking black tea three times a day may drastically lower a person’s systolic and diastolic blood pressure…
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Working Mothers Multitask More Than Fathers, And Don’t Like It
American mothers are multitasking for 48.3 hours each week, compared to 38.9 hours working fathers put in, researchers from Michigan State University reported in American Sociological Review. They add that women find multitasking a negative experience, compared to fathers who say that for them the experience is a positive one. Co-investigator, Professor Barbara Schneider said: “This suggests that working mothers are doing two activities at once more than two-fifths of the time they are awake, while working fathers are multitasking more than a third of their waking hours…
Police To Interview 500 More People After Saline Doped With Insulin Tied To Deaths At UK Hospital
After dropping charges against a suspected nurse on Friday, UK’s Greater Manchester Police (GMP) revealed they plan to interview 500 more people in connection with suspicious deaths and up to 40 cases of patients at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Cheshire, being poisoned after saline drips were found to be contaminated with insulin…
Fatter Mothers Have Fatter Babies With More Liver Fat
Babies born to fatter mothers are not only fatter themselves, which we already knew, but also have more fat in their livers, which we didn’t know, according to a new study published in the September 2011 issue of the journal Pediatric Research. The researchers, from Imperial College London, also found that the babies were not only fatter, but had more fat around the abdomen, and this, together with the amount of fat in the liver, increased across the whole range of their mothers’ pre-pregnancy BMI…
Parkinson’s Patients Get No Benefit From Antidepressants Sertraline Or Mirtazapine, But Have More Side Effects
Two antidepressants prescribed often for individuals with Parkinson’s disease – sertraline or mirtazapine – were found to have no benefits for such patients. In fact, they also experienced unpleasant side effects., according to the results of the HTA-SADD trial published in The Lancet. The article was written by Professor Sube Banerjee and team, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK. The trial involved 325 patients from nine different centers in England…
Research Reveals That Significantly More Genetic Mutations Lead To Colon Cancer
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center say there are at least 70 genetic mutations involved in the formation of colon cancer, far more than scientists previously thought. Based on the study, published in the July 2011 Cancer Research (Priority Reports), researchers are suggesting a new approach to colon cancer treatments targeting multiple genes and pathways simultaneously. Current cancer treatments target just one or two known cancer-driver genes believing this would be beneficial to patients…
Fetal Weight Easier And More Accurate To Assess With New Generic Reference Tool
A generic tool for assessing fetal weight and birth weight is better at predicting adverse perinatal outcomes than other methods, its developers reported in the medical journal The Lancet. The authors add that it is also much easier to use…