“High flying career women with stressful jobs face a higher risk of heart disease,” the Daily Mail has claimed. This news story is based on Danish research, which followed 12,000 female nurses...
The development of a new vaccine that can treat high blood pressure has received widespread media coverage. The Guardian reports that the vaccine works by targeting
A cure for the common cold may be on the way after “a remarkable discovery in a Cambridge laboratory”, The Independent has reported. The newspaper said that new research has identified a previously unkown...
“Adults smacked as children have higher risk of mental illness later on,” the Daily Mail boldly reports today. The news is based on a study that investigated whether there was a link between children...
Scorpion venom “could prevent bypass failures”, according to the Daily Mail, which says the toxin can help keep veins clear after heart bypass surgery. According to the paper, a study has found that ‘margatoxin’, found in the sting of...
News of a successful trial of a vaccine for type 1 diabetes has been covered by BBC News, who reported that, "It may be possible to reverse type 1 diabetes by training a patient's own immune system to stop attacking their body…
“Two cups of coffee a day can reduce the risk of heart failure (but five can be bad for you),” the Daily Mail reported today. This seemingly contradictory headline is actually a fair but slightly overenthusiastic reflection of...
“Tennis elbow injections do ‘more harm than good’”, reports BBC News. The article was referring to steroid injections that are commonly used to treat the pain and inflammation associated with lateral epicondylitis (‘tennis elbow’).
“Children who spend more than two hours a day in front of the television in early childhood are twice as likely to develop asthma as those out playing,” The Daily