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The forthcoming World Heart Day has prompted leading experts to comment in an editorial that rising cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide, has become a pandemic which urgently needs to be addressed.
Both soy supplements and hormone replacement therapy appear to improve risk factors for heart disease in women with diabetes, according to a report on two new studies published this week. The findings present conflicting evidence to the large clinical...
Eating too much seafood, which can contain high levels of the toxic substance mercury, could be linked to an increased risk of infertility in men and women, researchers said this week.
Leading Brands, the Canadian maker of the Trek energy drink, has reported a revenue increase of 41 per cent for the second quarter of its 2002 fiscal year ended 28 February 2003. Sales of the new Trek performance drink have exceeded expectations said...
The 13th congress on food microbiology, held in Bilbao, Spain last week, amassed 400 congress members together to discuss the issue of food security.
Survey results released this week by the AMD Alliance, an international coalition of eye care charities and organisations, revealed that GPs feel 'left in the dark' when it comes to recognising and treating Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD), the...
A survey published in Advances in Therapy indicates that Ester-C vitamin supplements may reduce the severity of symptoms and shorten the duration of the common cold.