Avoid reusable plastic water bottles unless you want chemicals in your drink, says study
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Leaving water in a plastic bottle for just one day may allow hundreds of chemicals to seep into your drink, a…
The long-term consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection in people with HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minute In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the United States (US) analyzed a cohort…
Statins side effects are overblown and less common than feared: As few as 6% of patients taking the cholesterol-busting pills will suffer muscle pains, finds largest ever study
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Side effects from statins are overblown and much less common than thought, the largest study of its kind suggests. Read More
Two glasses of wine have more calories than a BURGER: Bottle of plonk can contain up to 59g of sugar, analysis shows
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Most of us try to stick to lean, nutritious meals when watching our weight. Read More
Love drugs are coming and they bring big ethical problems with them
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Reading Time: < 1 minute LOVE is unpredictable and complex. After spending many years researching its layers, I remain in awe of how it engages every mechanism…
Scientists cure HIV in a woman using umbilical cord blood
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A US patient with leukemia has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV…
One dead and several hospitalised after Champagne spiked with ecstasy
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Reading Time: < 1 minute One man has died and eight have been hospitalised after a three-litre bottle of Moët & Chandon Champagne was spiked with ecstasy…
Pharmaceuticals in rivers threaten world health - study
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Pollution of the world’s rivers from medicines and pharmaceutical products poses a “threat to environmental and global health”, a report says. Read…
Potentially toxic levels of pharmaceutical drugs found in rivers across the world
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Potentially toxic levels of pharmaceutical drugs were found in a quarter of river locations that were examined across the world, a…
Users of rave drug speed are FIVE times more likely to suffer from psychosis at some point in their life, study finds
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Reading Time: < 1 minute People who take the illicit party drug ‘speed’ are five times more likely to suffer from psychosis at some point in their…