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Fatty foods necessary for vitamin E absorption, but not right away
A fresh look at how to best determine dietary guidelines for vitamin E has produced a surprising new finding: Though…
Pharmacists can be trusted with statins
There’s no reason why GPs should be alarmed over NHS plans for pharmacists to provide statins (Report, 4 September). Pharmacists…
Food phobia mum who weighs just six stone in desperate appeal for help
A MOTHER-of-two has been struggling with a phobia of food since she was just six-months-old. Now 26, she is fighting…
‘Supercool’ method triples organ survival
Supercooling human livers to -4C triples the time they can be kept before transplant compared with putting them on ice,…
Forty winks twice a week halves your risk of heart attack and stroke says study
The five-year investigation found that one or two naps cut the incidence of cardiovascular events by 48%. Taking a nap…
‘Neural revolution’: Royal Society calls for inquiry into new wave of brain implants
Scientists think devices could allow people to communicate telepathically or the paralysed to walk in the next decades Society must…
Too many hooked on prescription drugs – health chiefs
Hundreds of thousands of people in England are getting hooked on prescription drugs, health chiefs fear. A Public Health England…