No Tobacco Ads Anymore?

The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging governments to ban all tobacco advertising. The aim is to protect the world’s youth from becoming addicted to a product WHO says could cause one billion premature deaths this century. The U.N. organization issued the call on World No Tobacco Day. Read more

Golf prolongs life

Golf can be a good investment for the health, according to a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. The death rate for golfers is 40 per cent lower than for other people of the same sex, age and socioeconomic status, which correspond to a 5 year increase in life expectancy. Golfers with a low handicap are the safest. Read more

Most smokers in SE Asia start using tobacco before 18 yrs

Most smokers in South-East Asia start tobacco consumption before the age of 18 and almost a quarter of them begin using tobacco before the age of 10, according to a study by the World Health Organisation. Read more

New Method In Detecting Dangerous Coronary Plaque

A significant number of patients who suffer a heart attack never have any warning signs. For many of these individuals, the source of the problem is noncalcified plaque, a buildup of soft deposits embedded deep within the walls of the heart’s arteries, undetectable by angiography or cardiac stress tests Read more

Children’s diet not main cause of ADHD

Food may not be the major cause of hyperactivity in children. Genetics, brain function and parental actions such as smoking may be just as important. A review of scientific evidence found only a minority of children were actually affected by what they eat. Read more

Officials say more needed to save Md. babies

BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Maryland’s infant mortality rate may be dropping, but officials say black infants are dying at an unacceptable rate and more needs to be done. Read more

Why Some Treatments Rescue Aging Skin

Fine wrinkles, deeper creases, saggy areas around the mouth and neck – the sights in the mirror that make baby boomers wince – are not inevitable. They result from a structural breakdown inside the skin that some existing treatments effectively Read more

Help Manage Asthma With New Breathing Exercises

A presentation that demonstrates breathing exercises designed to help reduce the use of asthma inhalers is today available to the general public for free from the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Asthma and Airways website. Read more

Sumatra Quakes Buildup Stress Precedes

The island of Sumatra, Indonesia, has shaken many times with powerful earthquakes since the one that wrought the infamous 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Now, scientists from the California Institute of Technology and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences are harnessing information from these and earlier quakes to determine where the next ones will likely occur, and how big they will be. Read more

Is It Any Wonder UK Is Getting Fat?

Vending machines directly contribute to obesity and particularly developing childhood obesity. However, apparently Harrow Council, as a means of raising extra revenue, are planning to place vending machines in their civic offices, libraries and even local blocks of flats. Read more