Sociodemographic, psychiatric and somatic risk factors in suicide
Posted by: Debbie Nicholson
Lund :: Sweden | updated 2013-06-13 05:19:08 -0700 | health-news
Researchers reveal what risk factors bear importance when assessing risk of suicide More effective prevention of suicide requires a comprehensive understanding of sociodemographic, psychiatric and somatic risk factors. Previous studies have been limited by incomplete ascertainment of these...
Having sex with honeycomb
Posted by: KhanhElegant
Stockholm :: Sweden | updated 2013-05-23 22:31:02 -0700 | health-news
A Swedish man named Hasse, 35, was killed after having sex with honeycomb. A neighbor discovered Hasse farm on the outskirts of the city of Ystad with body swelling. The neighbor called Bertil Stahfraas said he tried to call the...
If Grandpa was too old to be a father, his grandchildren are more likely to be autistic
Posted by: fibonnaci
Barsebäckshamn :: Sweden | updated 2013-05-24 01:35:06 -0700 | health-news
A research team has concluded that men beget a son or daughter at older ages are more likely that he or she beget a son or daughter with autism, compared with cases in which the grandfather was father at an...
Towards a more detailed understanding of the causes of glaucoma and retinal detachment
Posted by: fibonnaci
Lundsbrunn :: Sweden | updated 2013-05-24 07:39:31 -0700 | health-news
Using new technologies and new approaches to study, a team of scientists hopes to explain the exact causes of vision loss is suffered in ocular diseases such as glaucoma and retinal detachment. Until now, research on eye diseases such as...
Coffee may prevent recurrence of breast cancer
Posted by: Debbie Nicholson
Lund :: Sweden | updated 2013-04-26 13:34:58 -0700 | health-news
A new study from the University of Lund finds patients who take Tamoxifen and have two cups of coffee or more daily reported less than half the rate of cancer recurrence in comparison to those who took the pill and...
Swedish experts have found amphetamine in one of the supplements
Posted by: rsa76
Stockholm :: Sweden | updated 2013-04-09 03:40:45 -0700 | health-news
A substance that the chemical composition resembles amphetamine, experts have found Sweden in the food additive "craze" (Craze) of the United States, which is sold and advertised widely in the country in the stores of goods for health, according to...
Sweden: survey of horse meat falsely labeled beef
Posted by: rsa76
Stockholm :: Sweden | updated 2013-04-09 00:14:13 -0700 | health-news
The Swedish Food Security on Monday urged the court to investigate a company suspected of passing of horse meat for the Polish-born Swedish beef tenderloin. "We can not say with certainty where the meat comes from, because the import documents...
IKEA has recalled 17 million servings of lasagna elk, because it found the pork
Posted by: rsa76
Stockholm :: Sweden | updated 2013-04-10 08:22:13 -0700 | health-news
New lasagne has disappeared from the menu in the cafe furniture stores, writes the Swedish newspapers. A company representative Tina Kardum explained why it was announced just now: "We got more information, and therefore decided to report only now." For...
Rheumatoid arthritis in men linked to low testosterone levels
Posted by: Debbie Nicholson
Malmö :: Sweden | updated 2013-04-04 09:26:20 -0700 | health-news
Low levels of testosterone may predict the subsequent development of RA Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) s less common among men than women, and sex hormones has been suggested to play a part in the pathogenesis. Lower levels of testosterone have been...
Swedish woman’s death due to MS drug
Posted by: Debbie Nicholson
Umeå :: Sweden | updated 2013-02-11 10:13:15 -0800 | health-news
Multiple Sclerosis drug Tysabri antibodies causing reaction that could have caused death Natalizumab (Tysabri) is used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis and Crohn's disease. It is co-marketed by Biogen Idec and Élan as Tysabri, may have caused the death...
Dance intervention help girls' emotions hit a positive note
Posted by: Debbie Nicholson
Örebro :: Sweden | updated 2012-11-13 14:28:15 -0800 | health-news
Swedish researchers find dance interventions turn negative problems into positive ones Dance therapy/intervention is the psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance for emotional, cognitive, social behaviors and physical conditions. It is based on the belief that there is a direct...
New research suggests creativity is closely related to mental illness
Posted by: arkar
Stockholm :: Sweden | updated 2012-10-16 18:05:26 -0700 | health-news
Is creativity a sort of madness? An illness even? History is replete with examples of highly talented and creative people, writers, artists, musicians etc who were not only celebrated for their talent and creativity but also famously remembered for being...
Children suffer adverse effects from traffic air pollution
Posted by: Debbie Nicholson
Stockholm :: Sweden | updated 2012-10-12 15:43:31 -0700 | health-news
Cars, buses and trucks along with other motorized vehicles are the largest source of air pollution and have been associated to negative health effects. Long-term exposure to air pollutants increase the risk of respiratory illnesses such as asthma. A new...
Researchers find that aspirin can help slow brain decline in elderly women
Posted by: arkar
Stockholm :: Sweden | updated 2012-10-08 08:20:19 -0700 | health-news
Aspirin is a very well-known painkiller that has been used to particularly good effect against heart attacks with proven results, and now researchers have discovered that within heart patients, the drug can be used to slow down brain decline. The...
A glass of cancer prevention: 'Got Milk?'
Posted by: Debbie Nicholson
Söråker :: Sweden | updated 2012-10-04 10:58:00 -0700 | health-news
Milk has just added another benefit when it comes to doing the body good University of Lund researcher’s find that milk just may do the body good in another way; reducing the growth rate of colon cancer cells over time...
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