Cervical cancer rates jump by 54% among women in their late 20s as charity warns of ‘stalling progress’ and urges women to go to NHS screening appointments Cancer Research UK said there’s been a lack of progress in tackling the…
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Air filters in classrooms drives up exam results, study finds
Installing air filters in schools to sieve out toxic pollutants ‘can boost pupils’ grades and improve learning as much as cutting class sizes by a third’ £750 systems linked to increased scores in maths and English over two years Had…
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Tips for exercising outdoors in winter
Frigid temperatures can discourage even the most motivated exercisers. Without motivation, it’s easy to pack away your workout gear for the winter. But you don’t have to let cold weather spell the end of your fitness routine. Try these tips…
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A new way to give an old tuberculosis vaccine proves highly effective in monkeys
What if you could make the tuberculosis vaccine much more powerful, not by altering the ingredients, but just by changing the way it is given to people? It would help prevent the infection that kills more people every year than…
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Mystery virus which has infected 59 in China is ruled out as SARS
Mystery outbreak of pneumonia which has infected 59 people in China is still baffling scientists as officials rule out deadly SARS and bird flu The unidentified pneumonia-like virus has infected dozens since December Officials in Wuhan city feared it was…
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Healthy habits in middle age linked to longer life free from disease
Sticking to a healthy lifestyle including not smoking, not being overweight, and exercising regularly, is associated with a longer life expectancy at age 50 free of major diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes, finds a study in The…
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Boy, one, suffers chemical burns after dousing himself in superglue
Boy, one, left unattended at nursery suffers third degree chemical burns after dousing himself in SUPERGLUE which reacted with the cotton in his clothes Torben Manners, from Brighton, reportedly left unsupervised at nursery in Brazil Was visiting his father’s family…
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Persistence of gut microbial strains in twins, living apart after cohabitating for decades
Your fingerprints stay the same all your life. But what about the “fingerprint” of microbial strains that are shared in the guts of childhood twins? Using a genomics strain-tracking bioinformatics tool developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, researchers…
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