Posts Tagged ‘twice-as-likely’

Virtual 3D super-needle helps train surgeons

Thursday, December 31, 2009 3:39 Comments Off

A virtual 3D ’super-needle’ devised by Bangor University could soon help train doctors in pin-hole surgery.

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Home drinkers ‘over-pour spirits’

Thursday, December 31, 2009 3:39 1 Comment

Most Britons who drink spirits at home pour well over what they would get in a single pub measure, figures suggest.

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Swine flu ‘more likely in young’

Thursday, December 31, 2009 3:39 2 Comments

Children are twice as likely as adults to catch swine flu, a study says, while dismissing suggestions they are “super-spreaders”.

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Asian infant death rate ‘higher’

Monday, November 16, 2009 5:40 Comments Off

Critically ill babies born to South Asian mothers in the UK are nearly twice as likely to die in their first year, research finds.

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Curry spice ‘kills cancer cells’

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 18:26 Comments Off

An extract found in the curry spice tumeric can kill off cancer cells, lab scientists have shown.

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‘Aura’ migraines a stroke risk

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 18:26 Comments Off

Young women who have migraines with auras are twice as likely to have a stroke, researchers say.

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Your Kids & Smoking

Saturday, August 1, 2009 5:00 3 Comments

It would be a long stretch for anyone to say that they do not know nowadays the negative effect on health that smoking has. The link of smoking to lung cancer and heart disease is well documented as is the severity of nicotine addiction and its hold onto the addicted individual

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Nature VS Nurture & Drug Addiction

Friday, July 31, 2009 5:00 Comments Off

It is becoming harder and harder not to recognize the part that heredity plays in the role of alcoholic propensity.

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