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Get up and go - Who’s at their best first thing?

01 March 2006

Researchers in a sleep laboratory woke people up and asked them to perform some random arithmetic (addition) tests. One minute after being awakened, the subjects’ scores were just 65 per cent of their best; their optimal scores were seen 20 minutes after getting up.

These amazing findings are bad news for people who often have to undertake difficult tasks almost immediately upon waking, including firemen, soldiers and - er - doctors (JAMA, 2006; 295: 163-4).

Hrt-more bad news - In the second part of our special report, we catalogue the little known side effects of a drug that is more likely to make you ill than add sparkle to...

Hrt: more bad news for the heart - Although the conventional wisdom has it that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) protects a woman's heart after menopause, two new studies show that it...

Wine: the good and the bad news - Moderate wine-drinkers those who drink between three and five glasses a day halve their chances of suffering a fatal heart attack or stroke. ...

Screening tests: more bad news - Only one in 14 women with a positive mammography result indicating breast cancer will actually have the condition, researchers have discovered. This m...

Avastin: Bad News for the Brain - It’s no giant secret that chemotherapy is a knife-edge approach to healing—you take the drugs in the hopes that they will kill the cancer without kill...

Hrt and stroke:more bad news - Findings from the US Nurses' Health Study showed that women who use oestrogen replacement therapy at just 0.625 mg/day have 1.35 times the risk of str...

Avian Flu: More bad news for our greatest hope - Anyone here remember avian flu? You know, nasty disease, kills everyone. Even the UK’s very own chief medical officer of health Sir Liam Donaldson t...

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