Asthma patients may be over-medicating themselves
If you have asthma, chances are you may be taking higher doses of medicines than actually required, say experts. People with mild asthma are advised to lower their medication dose once their asthma has been brought under control but the best way to reduce the dose is not fully known. “We need... read more »
Painful joints impact sex life
Painful joints have become a bigger and more real reason than the good old excuse of “having a headache” for people abstaining from physical intimacy, according to new research. Arthritis Research Britain conducted the survey to reveal the everyday challenges couples face in their... read more »
New therapies raise hope for a breakthrough in tackling cancer
In the summer of 2012, a year after his wife had died of lung cancer, Michael Harris scraped open an old mole on his back and it would not stop bleeding. The doctors said he had stage 4 melanoma, with a virtually inoperable tumor, and that patients in his condition typically lived about eight... read more »
Love: How does it happen?
A region deep inside the brain controls how quickly people make decisions about love, scientists have found. The finding, made in an examination of a 48-year-old man who suffered a stroke, provides the first causal clinical evidence that an area of the brain called the anterior insula “plays... read more »
