Read more...Investigators from VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and Ghent University have revealed that a defective gene can contribute to the onset of rheumatoid arthritis, an inflammation of the joints which is often-crippling and affects around 1% of the world's...
Research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine suggests, watching television for approximately six hours daily could shorten the viewers life expectancy by almost five years. Competing with other well known behavioral risk factors, such as smoking and not...
Sticking with an exercise routine means being able to overcome the obstacles that invariably arise. A key to success is having the confidence that you can do it, researchers report. A new study explores how some cognitive strategies and abilities increase this...
Researchers from VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and Ghent University have shown that a defective gene can contribute to the onset of rheumatoid arthritis, an often-crippling inflammation of the joints that afflicts about 1% of the world's population. Until now, the...
As the fall sports season starts for students, millions will hit the court, the rink and the field. Every year, it seems we hear a tragic story of a young person suffering a cardiac event while participating in school sports...Read more...
Read more...Postmenopausal women who regularly eat dried plums have a considerably lower risk of developing osteoporosis or fractures compared to other women of the same age, researchers from Florida State University reported in the British Journal of Nutrition. The authors...
Read more...A study led by Dr Chi-Pang Wen, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, and China Medical University Hospital, and Dr Jackson Pui Man Wai, National Taiwan Sport University revealed, that only 15 minutes of daily physical activity reduces a person's risk of death...
Read more...Two new studies suggest it might be easier to make a significant difference to people's risk of death than we think. Researchers in Taiwan found that just 15 minutes exercise a day appears to be enough to lengthen lifespan, even for people with cardiovascular...
ONCOLOGY: How a virus causes skin cancer Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare but aggressive form of skin cancer. It was recently found that most cases of MCC are caused by Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV). However, the mechanisms by which this virus causes MCC are unknown...Read...