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Britons have a higher life expectancy than Americans
Mar. 19 | UK Today News: There has been an improvement in the life expectancy of Europeans, with British people living longer as compared to their American counterparts. Despite the increase in the number of obese people in Europe, an analysis of trends in the...
Laughter a day keeps the leg ulcers away!
Mar. 10 | UK Today News: A study by the scientists from the Leeds University claim that laughter is the best medicine to cure leg ulcers. Prof Andrea Nelson says that laughter stimulates blood flow, which helps in curing the painful wounds. According to the researchers,...
Exercise prevents heart disease in women
Feb. 23 | UK Today News: As compared to men, the weaker sex are less likely to suffer from heart diseases. But not many are aware that women too are prone to get symptoms of a heart attack, if they do not pay enough attention to their health, and take their health...
Bilinguals cope better with Alzheimer’s disease than monoglots
Feb. 22 | UK Today News: It is always good to learn new languages and this has now been proved by researchers that people who can speak more languages, can keep away Alzheimer’s disease for a long time. The researchers also said that children who are bilingual,...
Positive thinking helps painkillers to work better
Feb. 18 | UK Today News: Painkillers are given to patients to relieve them of pain, but not many people know that the painkiller work mostly when the patient’s brain also helps in the pain relief. No clue what that means? In layman’s terms, it’s called...
Women seeking early abortion to be under observation through entire process
Feb. 18 | UK Today News: As instances of unwanted pregnancies have risen over the past few years, women who wished to have an abortion in their early weeks of pregnancy, were given their first pill in the clinic and were sent home with the second pill to be taken...
British women are more prone to breast cancer in Europe
Feb. 9 | UK Today News: Women in Britain are more likely to die of breast cancer than anywhere else in Europe, according to new research. An analysis done by the World Health Organization says that British women are more prone to breast cancer, while women in...
Chocolate is now a super food thanks to it’s antioxidant properties, says new research
Feb. 7 | UK Today News: In some good news for hardcore chocolate lovers, researchers in Britain have claimed that dark chocolate has more nutrients than fruit juices made of cranberries, blue berries and other fruits which fall in the category of ‘superfruits’....
Women more prone to lung cancer than men in the UK
Dec. 7 | A new study in Britain has found that the number of women suffering from lung cancer, due to smoking, is extremely high. And surprisingly, it is exactly the opposite with men; since it was reported that the cases of the disease in men have indeed decreased. The...
