Researcher says that not sex drive, but rather age and a lot of social factors determine how much sex a person engages in. Do you know how much sex is good for you? Well a new study says that the…
Dog walking could be prescribed for older people to boost activity
DOG walking could be key to keeping older people more active, and experts have even suggested it could even could form part of exercise on prescription scheme. Dog walking can boost health: Two-thirds of dog owners walked their…
Hearing is believing: Speech may be a clue to mental decline
Your speech may, um, help reveal if you’re uh … developing thinking problems. More pauses, filler words and other verbal changes might be an early sign of mental decline, which can lead to Alzheimer’s disease, a study suggests. Researchers had…
Placebos can work even when patients know what they are
Lying to patients is almost always unethical. But, in order for placebos to work, we have to believe they are “real” treatments, which means the doctor would have to lie to us and say that the placebo was actually a real…
Zika: costs of prevention and control
An interview with Amesh Adalja, MD FIDSA, Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, MA (Cantab) Can you please outline the main findings of the recent study published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases on the costs…
MSF: HIV response in West and Central Africa will not succeed if key barriers remain unaddressed
As African heads of state meet today in Addis Ababa to endorse the Emergency catch-up plan led by UNAIDS to accelerate HIV treatment in West and Central Africa, the international humanitarian medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reiterates…