Thursday 26 July 2018

Too Few Americans Getting Screened for Cancer: CDC

Only 36 percent of men aged 50 or older said they had recently gotten a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, the researchers reported.



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3 Fitness Stars Share the Exercise They Love to Hate

That moment when the instructor calls out that one exercise you loathe? Yep, we’ve all been there.

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Study: You're Probably Not Using Enough Sunscreen

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.



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Wednesday 25 July 2018

New Drug Shows Promise Against Alzheimer's

MRI Scan of human brain

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.



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