Beating cancer is a great feat, but how survivors live their lives afterward also influences their longevity. A new study shows that people who spend a lot of time sitting and are not physically active are much more likely to die prematurely from cancer or from any other cause than those that are more active.
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Doctors at Maryland hospital have transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital. The patient was David Bennett, 57 years old. While it is too early to tell if the operation will actually work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.
According to a meta-analysis of Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA), breastfeeding a baby is not only good for the baby, but also for the mother, as it reduces the probability of developing heart disease or stroke, or dying from cardiovascular disease. Previous studies have investigated the association between breastfeeding and the risk of cardiovascular disease in the mother; however, the findings were inconsistent in terms of the strength of the association and, specifically, the relationship between different durations of breastfeeding and the risk of cardiovascular disease.
People with severe alcohol disorder were able to stay away from alcohol for longer when treated with low-dose ketamine combined with psychological therapy in a clinical trial. The trial, the first of its kind, was led by the University of Exeter and funded by the Medical Research Council.
A philosophy team from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and the University of Antwerp analyzed the role that self-deception plays in everyday life and the strategies that people use to deceive themselves. In the magazine Philosophical Psychology, Francesco Marchi and Professor Albert Newen describe three strategies used to stabilize and protect positive self-image. According to his theory, self-deception helps people stay motivated in difficult situations.
A new study recently published in Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology suggests that early postnatal household use of pesticides for rodents and insects can harm the psychomotor development of infants in early childhood. The researchers gave telephone questionnaires to 296 mothers with newborns in the Pregnancy Cohort Maternal Risks and Development of Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES).
Robert boyleknown for being the father of modern chemistry, he helped establish many of the rules upon which the scientific method was underpinned, especially how experiments should be carried out. And he did it with a group of colleagues: Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. The motto of the group they formed, called Colegio Invisible, was Nullius in verba, that is, “don’t trust anyone’s word.” When one of its constituents announced the result of an experiment, the others not only wanted to know what the result had been, but how the experiment had been carried out, so that their claims could…
Preeclampsia occurs in about 1 in 20 pregnancies, usually in the third trimester, and can cause organ damage, stroke, and preterm labor. A simple blood test could predict it. Although the blood test is still in development and will not be available for a while, Doctors say it could save lives one day.
A team of researchers from the David Geffen School of Medicine of the University of California, has found evidence that shows that eating grapes can increase the diversity of the gut biome and also reduce blood cholesterol levels. In his study published in the journal Nutrients, the group describes experiments in which they fed volunteers grape powder for four weeks.