Study estimates sexual behaviour of Japanese; no data available on homosexuality
Japan has an increasing percentage of young adults with no history of heterosexual vaginal intercourse.
Public health experts at the University of Tokyo completed the most detailed analysis of national...
Just 20 minutes walk with nature could be your natural stress-relieving remedy
A twenty minute stroll or merely sitting in a place that makes you feel in contact with nature will significantly lower your stress hormone levels. That's the finding...
Older adults who walk at least an hour every week are more likely to keep disability at bay
An hour of weekly brisk walking helps prevent disability in older adults with osteoarthritis.
Just one hour a week of brisk walking staves...
Study shows that underage drinking, especially in adolescents and young kids can slow brain growth
Heavy use of alcohol among adolescents and young adults is not only dangerous in its own right, but new research in primates shows that it...
Researchers say excess weight before 50 years increases risk of dying of pancreatic cancer; smoking alone doesn't explain spurt
Excess weight before age 50 may be more strongly associated with pancreatic cancer mortality risk than excess weight at older ages....
Researchers from Iowa University say wishing others well reduces stress and anxiety
Wishing others well reduces stress and anxiety.
We all have a remedy - a glass of wine or a piece of chocolate - for lifting our spirits when we're...
Study finds that exercise improves not just physical fitness, but thinking skills too; increase is incremental over time with sustained exercise
Exercise improves thinking skills.
Anyone who trains for a marathon knows that individual running workouts add up over time to...
If gestational diabetes in pregnant women remains undiagnosed, there is increased risk of stillbirth
Women who develop diabetes in pregnancy but are not diagnosed are much more likely to experience stillbirth.
The study, led by the University of Leeds and the...
Tilt training can reduce symptoms of recurrent fainting or syncope by upto 85%
Tilt training effectively prevents fainting, according to research presented today at EHRA 2019, a European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress. The programme also improved quality of life,...
A new cholesterol-lowering drug, bempedoic acid could help treat patients unable to take statins due to side effects
A new cholesterol-lowering drug, bempedoic acid reduces levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol or ‘bad cholesterol’ by blocking an enzyme ATP citrate...
