“Millions of blind and partially sighted people are being given hope they will see again after artificial corneas were successfully ‘grown’ in eyes,” the Daily Express reported.
“Yoga protects the brain from depression,” The Daily Telegraph reported. It said that researchers have found that three sessions of yoga a week can help to keep you relaxed and prevent depression. This small trial randomly allocated 52 healthy people to either yoga or a walking exercise for 12 weeks.
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“Calcium pills increase risk of heart attacks,” BBC News reported.
“The precise cause of the immune reaction that leads to coeliac disease has been discovered,” BBC News reported. It said that three key substances in gluten have been found to trigger the condition, and researchers believe them to be a potential new target for developing treatments and possibly a vaccine.
Nine health research centers have received funds to develop ways to reduce the time it takes for clinical research to become treatments for patients. The funds were awarded as part of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) program which is led by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), part of the National Institutes of Health.
“Having depression may nearly double the risk of developing dementia later in life,” reported BBC News. It said that a 17-year study of nearly 1,000 elderly people, found that 22% of those who were depressed at the start went on to develop dementia, compared with 17% of those who were not depressed.
“Cholesterol-lowering statins taken by millions might help prevent prostate cancer returning,” according to The Daily Telegraph. The newspaper said a study has found that men taking statins before their prostate removal surgery were less likely to show signs of the cancer returning. The study looked at data on 1,319 men who had their prostate removed as a result of prostate cancer, following them up for approximately two to three years on average.
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“Pregnant women have been warned their delivery is nearly 50% more likely to go wrong if they give birth at night rather than during the day due to poor staff cover”, reports the Daily Mail. The news story is based on a seven-year study of hospital births in the Netherlands. It found an increased risk of adverse outcomes in newborn infants with evening and night births in hospitals, and with night births in specialist centres.
