Category: 6. Health

Managing your blood pressure isn’t…

When people think of gym goers using steroids, the picture that comes to mind is often of a man pumping iron, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, or modern day shirtless masculinity influencers like “the Liver King”.

But the image is changing….

A new Cochrane systematic review of 10 randomised trials involving over 37,000 pregnant women found that calcium supplementation results in little to no reduction in pre-eclampsia or related adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes.

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A simple 10-meter walking test before surgery may help clinicians and patients identify the optimal timing for hip replacement and set realistic expectations for recovery.

Study: Preoperative Gait Speed as a Predictor of…

One in seven people in England who need hospital care are not receiving it because their GP referral is lost, rejected or delayed, the NHS’s patient watchdog has found.

Three-quarters (75%) of those trapped in this “referrals black hole”…

New experimental evidence shows that food smells encountered before birth and during early life can rewire brain and metabolic responses to fat, increasing the risk of obesity later in life, even in the absence of maternal obesity…

The early December weather this year in no way resembles a real winter, but when it comes to seasonal illnesses, the season has already arrived in full force. Over the past few weeks, the incidence of flu and other winter viral respiratory…