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Another year done and dusted. Looking back at 2017, it was quite a wild roller coaster journey with times of ups and downs for many. This day. we have been offered a blank slate in which we can re-write our story or improve on them.
Today is the first day of a new 365 chances we have been blessed with. Let’s start the year positively and expect positivity to follow us all through.
Wishing you a Happy New Year as you step into the blessings 2018 has to offer.
Cheers!
Continue reading “Why Common Cold Beats Your Immune System Regularly”
Soils from one of the most unlikely source – the dessert, harbour microorganisms with the potential to treat HIV and tackle the world’s antibiotic crises, research from Newcastle University, UK, has revealed. It has been Published in the academic journal Extremophiles.
Analysis of soils from the Cerro Chajnantor mountain landscape of Chile within the Atacama Desert, one of only two coastal deserts in the world, has revealed a treasure trove of bacteria with the potential to fight disease.
Continue reading “Micro-organisms The Cure To HIV – Scientists”
Obese people who lose a substantial amount of weight can significantly slow down the degeneration of their knee cartilage, but only if they lose weight through diet and exercise or diet alone, according to a new study.
Obesity is known as a major risk factor for osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease of the body joints. The knee joint is a common site of osteoarthritis, and in many people the condition progresses and worsens over time until total knee replacement becomes necessary. Continue reading “Weight Loss Through Exercise Alone Does Not Protect Knees”
Normal blood pressure is widely regarded as 120/80mmHg. A precautionary gap labeled prehypertension for those beyond 120/80mmHg and less than 130/90mmHg existed as well. But in the first update to comprehensive U.S. guidelines on blood pressure detection and treatment since 2003, the category of prehypertension is eliminated.
High blood pressure is now defined as readings of 130 mm Hg and higher for the systolic blood pressure measurement, or readings of 80 and higher for the diastolic measurement. That is a change from the old definition of 140/90 and higher, reflecting complications that can occur at those lower numbers. Continue reading “Nearly Half of Americans Are Hypertensive, According To New Guidelines”
How many of us are guilty of tasting a raw dough while baking is going on or letting your children scrape the bowl after the dough has been put in an oven?
If you are, then you might want to reconsider. Eating raw dough or batter—whether it’s for bread, cookies, pizza or tortillas—could make you, and your kids, sick, says Jenny Scott, a senior advisor in FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. Continue reading “Uncooked Flour A Reservoir For E.coli Bacteria”
Out of every 10 drugs sold in developing countries, a minimum of one is fake or substandard. This has led to tens of thousands of deaths, many of them of African children who received ineffective treatments for pneumonia and malaria, World Health Organization says.
A WHO pooled analysis of 100 studies from 2007 to 2016, covering more than 48,000 samples, showed 10.5 percent of drugs in low and middle-income countries to be fake or substandard. Continue reading “Tens Of Thousands Dying From Fake Drugs Trade – WHO”
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