Typical amounts of SPF 50 sunscreen applied by people -- less than the recommended coverage manufacturers use to determine their SPF rating -- provide only a maximum of 40 percent of the expected protection from the sun's harmful rays, researchers at King’s College in London say.
A promising new drug appears to be especially good at sopping up toxic pieces of beta amyloid protein that stick together in the brain and form the clumps that are a key characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease, researchers say.
Dementia patients who took sleeping pills had a 40 percent higher risk of fractures, and that risk increased with higher doses of the drugs, researchers report. Fractures, particularly hip fractures, increase the risk of premature death, the scientists noted.
