Drinking tea and eating apples could help lower blood pressure and fight off heart disease, study claims Researchers studied the diet and blood pressure of 25,168 people from Norfolk They measured flavanol intake using biomarkers, rather than self-reporting They found a high flavanol diet could lead to up to 4mmHg lower blood pressure This is equivalent … Read more
Former Home and Away star Kate Ritchie encourages her fans to ‘do more’ for the community in 2020 as she fronts blood drive By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 15:33 BST, 19 October 2020 | Updated: 15:33 BST, 19 October 2020 Kate Ritchie has encouraged fans to do more for their community in … Read more
Thousands of diabetics are being put at risk of serious complications after being denied access to lifesaving technology, the UK’s leading diabetes charity has warned. Two years ago, NHS bosses promised 80,000 Britons with type 1 diabetes a wearable blood glucose monitor, such as the £2-coin-sized FreeStyle Libre used by former Prime Minister Theresa May. … Read more
COVID-19 antibodies in the blood of patients fade rapidly after symptoms subside, study finds — leaving around a two-week window of opportunity for plasma transfusions By Ian Randall For Mailonline Published: 11:00 BST, 16 October 2020 | Updated: 11:00 BST, 16 October 2020 Antibodies made by the body to fight COVID-19 — the transfusion of … Read more
People with blood type O could be less likely to get sick with Covid-19, according to new research. Their risk of severe complications such as organ failure — and even death — is also reduced, say scientists. Danish researchers used data from 473,000 individuals tested for Covid-19 against a control group of more than 2.2million … Read more
Drug overdose deaths have soared by nearly 10 percent over the last year, early data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals. Provisional data shows deaths reached a record-high of more than 73,000 in March 2020 compared to March 2019 and are predicted to surpass 75,000 when counting is completed. A total … Read more
Leading private girls’ school Cheltenham Ladies’ College is giving vegan pupils regular blood tests amid fears the diet could trigger eating disorders Experts are concerned veganism is more common in girls with anorexia nervosa The college said it ‘does not actively encourage a vegan lifestyle’ for pupils It offers pupils options including vegetarian but has … Read more
Miley Cyrus got herself covered in fake blood while filming a mystery project in Brooklyn this Thursday evening. The 27-year-old’s upcoming video project apparently includes Dua Lipa who was seen shooting it with Miley earlier this week. Late Thursday night Miley could be spotted returning to her hotel in the city and Dua was seen … Read more
Coronavirus antibodies in blood plasma donations fade rapidly after symptoms first appear, a new study suggests. Researchers followed a small group of recovered COVID-19 patients who donated their blood and found all of them showed decreases in antibodies after three months. What’s more, just three weeks later, levels for half of the detectable antibodies fell … Read more
‘Vaccine against trauma death’: Injecting a drug that promotes blood clotting at the scene of the injury could save thousands of accident victims’ lives Tranexamic acid is a drug currently used to stop bleeding in trauma patients At present it is administered via an intravenous line — which is fiddly to set up British and French experts … Read more