Category: Health News
Study Shows That Testosterone Lowering Drugs Could Prevent Men From Getting COVID-19
What do prostate cancer and COVID-19 have in common? testosterone. How did the researchers arrive at the hypothesis that antiandrogen-based treatment might be a possible way to prevent COVID-19? …
Does High-Intensity Training Improve the Quality of Life in Older People?
A recent five-year randomized study suggests that the intensity of physical activity has little impact on mortality risk, but that being active is better for quality of life. The …
Trinity College Researchers Treat Tinnitus With a New Easy to Use Device
A device consisting of wireless headphones that emit sounds and a small set of electrodes that stimulate the tongue has shown good results in treating tinnitus. Tinnitus is a …
Flinders University Develops a Breath Test That Can Detect Head and Neck Cancer Early
Cancer is defined by the Australian Cancer Council as a disease of the body’s cells. It is a collection or a mass of abnormally growing cells that accumulate in …
Diabetes and Obesity: Bariatric Surgery Reduces the Risk of Pancreatic Cancer
For people with diabetes and obesity, bariatric surgery significantly reduces the risk of pancreatic cancer. Researchers have analyzed 1,435,350 patients with concurrent diabetes and obesity over 20 years. A …
Can Neurons Regenerate? A New Study Says They Can
A study published in Science claims to have found the genetic pathways and mechanisms responsible for the suppression of neuronal regeneration in mammalian neurons and how to repress those …University of Wisconsin Researchers Use Stem Cells to Treat Parkinson’s
Parkinson’s is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that characteristically affects the dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra or the midbrain. It usually begins with stiffness, shaking, tremors, voice changes, and …