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Over the past few years, WDDTY has revealed how common chemicals in our environment may be responsible for a host of health problems—from asthma and infertility to cancer and diabetes. Now, disturbing new research suggests that ubiquitous pollutants might also be to blame for the current worldwide obesity epidemic.
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Scientists have discovered the ultimate ‘brain food’. It’s a diet that can help boost the growth of stem cells in the brain, and may even be able to ward off Alzheimer’s disease.
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Elderly people can sometimes be more unsteady on their feet, and are more liable to fall. We all assume it’s because of their age, but new research has discovered it is just as likely to be a drug they’re taking.
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The drug company that made Vioxx, the painkiller that was responsible for at least 60,000 deaths, may have known about the drug’s dangers within a year of its launch, new research has discovered.
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You don’t catch the lethal superbug MRSA only in hospitals. Most of the new cases are being picked up in other public places, such as fitness centres and schools.
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A folk remedy that’s been used in South America for thousands of years is as effective a painkiller as a drug, researchers have discovered.
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It’s one of the biggest drug scandals going – and it could affect you if you have an elderly relative or friend being cared for in a home or hospital, or even if they’re receiving nursing care at home.
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The swine flu (H1N1) vaccine isn’t proving to be the money-spinner that the drugs industry expected. More than half the UK’s ‘vulnerable’ people – including key workers and pregnant women – are refusing to have the jab.
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If you have a little stiffness in your hand, think twice before going to see your doctor – he could wrongly diagnose Parkinson’s disease and put you on powerful, and dangerous, drugs, a new study has discovered this week.
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