3,699 articles frome SEPTEMBER 2019
For patients with diabetes, ticagrelor reduced heart attacks, strokes
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- 19/9/1 16:06
A clinical trial evaluated whether adding ticagrelor to aspirin improves outcomes for patients with stable coronary artery disease and diabetes mellitus but without a history of heart attack or stroke. Researchers found that taking ticagrelor in addition to aspirin reduced the risk of a composite of cardiovascular death, heart attack, or stroke.
Flu vaccination linked with lower risk of early death in patients with high blood pressure
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- 19/9/1 16:06
Influenza vaccination in patients with high blood pressure is associated with an 18% reduced risk of death during flu season, according to new research.
Childhood cholesterol, blood pressure, weight and smoking predict adult heart disease
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- 19/9/1 16:06
The first reliable evidence of a link between major cardiovascular risk factors in children -- serum cholesterol, blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), and smoking -- with cardiovascular disease in adults is being presented today. The study highlights the need to lay the foundations for heart health early in life.
Preventative artery repair provides major benefit after serious heart attack
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- 19/9/1 16:06
A new study has shown that opening all the blockages is better than treating only the one blockage causing the heart attack. This led to a 26% reduction in the patient's risk of dying or having a recurrent heart attack.
Screening for genetic high cholesterol could help patients and families avoid heart attack
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- 19/9/1 16:05
Genetic high cholesterol is underdiagnosed and undertreated, according to new research. Screening could identify patients and family members affected by the condition so that lifestyle changes and treatments can be started to prevent heart attack and stroke.
Five ways to be sober-curious (and make a success of not drinking)
Staying alcohol-free at social events can be daunting, but be open to the new experience and own itThe most recent survey on adult drinking habits in Great Britain found that as of 2015, 29% of 16- to 24-year-olds do not drink alcohol – an increase of 18% from 2005. With so many young people abstaining from drinking altogether, there has concurrently been a rise in the “sober-curious”...
Pope urges everyone to change lifestyle to save planet
Pope Francis called Sunday on individuals across the world to make changes to their daily habits to stop climate change in its tracks, and to put pressure on their leaders "before it's too late". "We have created a climate emergency, which seriously threatens nature and life, including our own," he said in a message to mark this year's World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Francis, a...
Pope urges politicians to take 'drastic measures' on climate change
Pope Francis challenged governments on Sunday to take "drastic measures" to combat global warming and reduce the use of fossil fuels, saying the world was experiencing a climate emergency. Francis issued his appeal, a written message for Sunday's World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, ahead of the United Nations Climate Action Summit this month in New York, a follow up to the 2016 Paris...
What lies beneath: Singapore plans a subterranean future
Space-starved Singapore has expanded outwards by building into the sea and upwards by constructing high-rises but planners are now looking underground as they seek new areas for growth. Singapore has already built an underground highway and state-of-the-art air conditioning system, but is now looking to house more facilities beneath the surface in order to optimise land use above it. There are...
Brazil's Amazon basin fires keep surging
The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon basin is still on the rise, even though the government has banned burning, officials said Saturday.
Pole caught in customs web with tarantula haul
Customs officials caught a Polish man was after trying to smuggle nearly 100 tarantula spiders in his luggage, at Cayenne airport, French Guiana, regional officials told AFP Saturday.
Hunger for concrete eats away at mountains
Soon, Jamal's voice will no longer ring out over the mountain slopes he's roamed for years with his herd in northern Cyprus.
Northern Bahamas hunkers down as Hurricane Dorian closes in
A dangerous Hurricane Dorian closed in on the northern Bahamas early Sunday, threatening to batter islands with 150 mph (240 kph) winds, pounding waves and torrential rain as people hunkered down in schools, churches and other shelters.
Arrival of refugees in Eastern German communities has no effect on voting behavior, attitudes on immigration
The arrival of refugees in eastern German communities has had no effect on local residents' voting behavior or on their attitudes toward immigration, finds a new study of citizens in more than 200 regional municipalities.
A former 'body broker' has a surprising theory for why FBI agents found a person's head sewn onto a different torso in an Arizona body-donation center
A 2014 FBI raid of a body-donation center in Phoenix, Arizona, found a woman's head sewn onto a larger man's torso, among other gruesome...
New satellite system could make Canadian soldiers safer abroad
A trio of new satellites will allow the Department of National Defence to better monitor areas where it's deploying troops and figure out potential threats soldiers may face before they arrive on foreign...
'It's a joke': After 4 years, the Liberals haven't released their plan for the Arctic
After four years in power, the Liberal government still hasn't delivered on a promise of a detailed plan for developing Canada's North in a time of climate change and economic and military threats from circumpolar...
Astronomers capture rare cosmic collision that's a chance to 'understand the chemistry of the universe'
It’s a cosmic collision that has astronomers rethinking one of the universe’s most colossal events: the collision of massive stars. But astronomers almost missed...
What an urban spaceman tells us about the human condition
An unusual astronaut is at the centre of a new exhibition of art and scientific artefacts designed to make us think about everything from our personal lives to the fate of humanity itself“It’s hard to think of a greater challenge to our future health than environmental breakdown,” says Clare Barlow, project curator of Wellcome Collection’s newest gallery. Opening on Thursday 5 September,...
Forget Russia: America Nearly Built Its Own 'Skyfall' Nuclear Powered Cruise Missile
After days of speculation by Western analysts that a deadly accident on August 8 that briefly spiked radiation levels in northwestern Russia was tied to tests of an exotic nuclear-powered “Skyfall” nuclear-powered cruise missile, Russian sources confirmed to the New York Times the explosion of a “small nuclear reactor.”While there’s a tactical rationale behind Russia’s development of a...
Malcolm Gladwell: ‘I’m just trying to get people to take psychology seriously’
The Canadian writer made his name bringing intellectual sparkle to everyday subjects, and his new book - about how strangers interact with each other - is no exceptionIn the flesh, Malcolm Gladwell is exactly as I imagined him to be: engaging, polite, dauntingly cerebral and supremely self-assured in that way that the exceptionally gifted often are. At 55, there is still something of the sporty,...
The Observer view on Donald Trump’s plans to militarise space | Observer editorial
Countries must join forces and sign a peace treaty or space will become a war-fighting domainThe thought of Donald Trump as space commander-in-chief, whizzing around the Milky Way, zapping alien invaders and conquering new worlds, is both comical and terrifying. Before they began exchanging love letters, the US president ridiculed his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-un, as “little rocket...
Extinction Rebellion 'stemmed from failed bus lane protest'
One of the protest movement's founders says she was inspired after praying on a psychedelic retreat.
Tiffany Francis-Baker: How forests shaped our literary heritage and inspired a nation
One-hundred years after the Forestry Commission was set up, a writer reflects on the creative power of trees.