Blood pressure medication can prevent heart attacks and strokes, even in people with normal blood pressure. This is the finding of the latest research presented in a Hot Line session a few days ago at ESC Congress 2020. “Greater decreases in blood pressure with drugs lead to greater reductions in the risk of heart attacks […]

Professor Martin Yeomans, Dr. Sophie Forster and their colleagues have found that when your senses are taken over by an engaging task, you are less likely to realize when you have eaten or drunk enough. The team tested 120 participants, offering them drinks with a lower or higher calorie count and tasks that required more […]

Scientists have completed large-scale tests on a new type of five-minute urine test that measures how healthy a person’s diet is and produces the unique “footprint” of individual urine. Researchers at Imperial College London, in collaboration with colleagues at Northwestern University, the University of Illinois, and Murdoch University, analysed the level of 46 so-called urine […]

What correlation exists between low vitamin D levels and hyperactive immune systems, how does this influence how we react to COVID and how vitamin D could be used most effectively to protect against COVID-19 complications – these were just a few of the questions to which researchers at Northwestern University sought answers. The research team […]