Apr201203

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Red meat intake ‘linked to death risk’

Eating red meat can increase your risk of death by up to 20% Once again the popular media have given over a lot of column inches to report on recent new medical advice concerning the intake of processed meat. Medical articles inform us that eating an 85 gram serving of red meat creates a 13% increase in the risk of death and a daily serving of processed meat increases that risk to 20%. A large study The information for these medical articles is based on a large study which has over 120,000 Read more

Mar201228

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Mobile Phones and Your Health

Are mobile phones a ticking health bomb? Several popular media outlets have recently published medical articles that highlight the supposed health risks of mobile phone use. Scientists looking at research into mobile usage and the medical questions surrounding its’ possible risk to health have issued a report in which they say that the government should be doing more to raise public awareness of the risk to health mobile phones may pose – especially in children. Scientists believe these Read more

Mar201226

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Home Allergies

Dust mites get the blame for millions of allergies found around homes Recent medical articles in the mainstream media have highlighted a report from Allergy UK, the charity has revealed that allergies caused by things in the home have reached almost epidemic proportions with almost 12 million of us suffering particularly from dust mite related allergies. However this report only looked at symptoms in 1,600 participants and so may raise more medical questions than it answers – a small survey Read more

Mar201226

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Are you at risk of heart disease?

Heart risk gene thought to be carried by 1 in 5 men Recent medical articles have reported that men may inherit heart disease from their father and that the risk of heart disease  for these men may be raised by as much as 50%. These medical articles are based on research which examined genetic variation in the Y chromosome of over 3,000 unrelated men. The genetic variations were then grouped according to those variations and associations between genetic type and heart disease risk were Read more

Mar201226

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Government Regulation of Recreational Drugs

There have been demands for more government regulation of drugs due to the danger of “legal highs” Drugs that imitate the effects of illegal drugs but which can be sold or possessed legally have come to be referred to as ‘legal highs’. Four categories of these drugs are commonly recognised – Substances related to medicines Herbal or fungal material or their extracts Substances designed to be similar to specific controlled or banned drugs Products with names that give no indication Read more