The maximum amount of time you can sit before harming your heart
Although many previous studies have shown that too much sedentary time increases the risk of a variety of diseases, including type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, heart disease,...
Physical exercise alone is really not enough to boost brain health
The beneficial effects of physical and mental exercise on brain health are already well established. A new American study has helped further pinpoint the impact of these two forms of exercise on the...
The Newest Skincare Trend Focuses on Fighting the Gross Parts of City Living
You know that thing where you hear about something and then suddenly it’s everywhere you look? Put simply, that’s sort of how beauty trends tend to work. The phenomenon has a name—the...
Smart science: Detailed brain map unveiled
For years, doctors have had reliable charts of the body and its organs — blood circulation, digestive system, nerves and the like — but always with one frustrating grey zone: the brain....
Want To Cut Your Risk Of Stroke By Up To 90%? Read This
Each year, 800,000 people suffer from a stroke in the United States. But according to a new study, published in the journal The Lancet, 90 percent of these cases are preventable. An international...
Asthma risk up to 4x higher near fracking sites: US study
Living near sites that extract natural gas by hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, may increase the risk of asthma up to four times, a US study said Monday. The findings, published in the...
Most Elderly People Are Given The Wrong Prescription Drugs; Study Finds Only 17% Get The Right Blend
The elderly are not making the most out of their medication, suggests a new study published Sunday in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. For the study, researchers observed the...
AIDS summit in SA to warn of lagging effort
Sixteen years after Nelson Mandela galvanised the world to take up the fight against AIDS, experts and activists return to the South African city of Durban on Monday, seeking to revitalise the fight...
