The advice often given to smokers wanting to quit is to plan it carefully and have a ‘game plan’. But research published in the British Medical Journal, found smokers who quit spontaneously without any planning, had a greater chance of succeeding. Dr Michael Siegal, a professor who examines smoking behaviour, said the findings made a [...]

 
A major study by the UK Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme (MTHRP) found that long term cancer risk from using a mobile phone cannot be ruled out. The 6 year study found there was a ‘hint’ of a higher cancer risk. However the MTHRP did rule out short-term adverse effects to brain and cell [...]

 
 
A study in Respirology, found that muscle relaxing drugs can effectively reduce Pulmonary Embolism (PE). PE occurs when a blood clot in blood vessels running towards the lungs impairs breathing, often resulting in death. The study found that PE, in isolated rabbit lungs, could be solved by the vasodilator papaverine, a muscle relaxant which is [...]

 
 
A naturally occurring protein that helps to fight against cell damage, after a heart attack, has been discovered by a team at the Bristol Heart Institute. They found that nerve growth factor (NGF) can help repair cells in the heart muscle. In the report, published in the Cell Death and Differentiation Journal, the study had [...]

 
 

 
Scientists at the University of Minnesota have successfully rebuilt a rat heart, so that it beats and functions normally in the lab. The heart was stripped bare of all its living cells, leaving just a frame, made of vessels and valves. The scientists then added heart cells which quickly grew and stimulated the heart to [...]

 
 
Over the last ten years the number of diabetics suffering a heart attack has doubled. Almost 13,000 people with Type 2 diabetes are treated for heart attacks every year, twice as many as ten years ago. This trend is particularly worrying due to the rise in the number of people developing Type 2 diabetes, a [...]

 
 
Patients suffering from fibromyalgia could benefit significantly from regular exercise in a heated swimming pool, a new study shows.
Fibromyalgia is a common, painful syndrome, with no known cause and no accepted cure. More than 90% of fibromyalgia sufferers are female, symptoms usually involve pain and soreness in muscles, ligaments and tendons. It is common for [...]

 
 
A new vaccine has successfully reduce the symptoms of hay fever on sufferers in initial trials. The sufferers were given four injections of Pollinex Quattro over a three week period, prior to the start of the grass pollen season. More than 10% of Britons suffer from hay fever and this figure is even higher for [...]

 
 
 
 
New research has found genetic changes that cause lung cancer in smokers. The study found that when exposed to cigarette smoke, production of a protein called FANCD2 is slowed within lung cells. This protein plays an important role in repairing damage to DNA and disabling faulty cells before they become cancerous.
Lead researcher Dr Laura Hays [...]

 
 
A recent study, published in Arthritis Care and Research Journal, found that regular exercise is an effective way of significantly improving and managing arthritis pain. The study looked specifically at the Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program, developed in 1987. This program is designed to keep joints flexible and muscles strong.
“The study showed that the exercise program [...]