Study says tailored music therapy can ease tinnitus LONDON (Reuters) – Individually designed music therapy may help reduce noise levels in people suffering from tinnitus, or ear ringing, German scientists said on Monday. The researchers designed musical treatments ...
Getting real with fitness resolutions NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – New Year's resolutions: We make them, we break them, we make them again. So it's no surprise that "Get Fit" tops many of the same ...
Refrigerated breast milk keeps integrity for 4 days NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Breast milk can be refrigerated for up to four days without losing its nutritional value or allowing bacteria to build up, a small study suggests. ...
Timing of weight-loss surgery in teens important NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When it comes to weight-loss surgery for very obese adolescents, having the surgery sooner rather than later may yield a better long-term outcome, new study ...
Statins don't curb colorectal cancer risk Taking a cholesterol-lowering statin will lower your cholesterol but it won't cut your risk of developing colorectal cancer, according to study of more than 400,000 Canadians. "Our study suggests that ...
Quitting smoking after heart attack extends lives The study, which followed more than 1,500 heart attack survivors for 13 years, also found a survival advantage for smokers who did not quit but managed to cut down on ...
A burger or fried chicken with a side of diabetes? Regularly eating "super sized" portions of high calorie fast foods is widely viewed as a contributing factor to the growing number of Americans with bulging waistlines.Moreover, "it is well established ...
Ginkgo extract doesn't slow cognitive decline-study The widely used herbal supplement Ginkgo biloba does not appear to slow the rate of cognitive decline in healthy older people or those with mild cognitive impairment, U.S. researchers said ...
'Good' cholesterol less protective with diabetes Diabetes may lower the heart-protective benefits of high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, the so-called "good" cholesterol, but giving diabetics niacin, a drug that raises HDL levels, might restore the benefit, researchers ...
Experts warn of cancer linked to certain herbs The consumption of popular Chinese herbal products containing aristolochic acid is associated with an increased risk of urinary tract cancer, a study in Taiwan has found. Aristolochic acid, known ...
