News article about study investigating the differences in lung function between asthmatics who walked on traffic-filled Oxford Street compared with Hyde Park
News article about a reported association between increased risk of heart attack and stroke (cardiovascular events) in the seven days following respiratory illness
“'Disaster' looms over addiction to painkillers” reported The Independent. This news story is based in part on a recent editorial published in the British Medical Journal, which discusses the rising use of opioid painkillers...
The Center for Disease Control in the US has published the first report on brain complications from swine flu in children, based on case studies from...
"Asthma cure could be in reach," The Independent reports. Researchers have discovered that protein molecules called calcium-sensing receptors play a pivotal role in asthma. Drugs known to block these proteins already exist...
“A drug used to lower blood pressure could harm patients if given following a stroke,” reported The Daily Telegraph. It said a study of 2,000 stroke patients, who all had high blood pressure, found that the drug did not benefit the patients...
BBC News reports that research “has shown for the first time that high stress levels may delay pregnancy”. The study behind this news followed 274 healthy women who were trying to get pregnant...
A review of research on how flu affects immunosuppressed people and the effects of vaccination on them has been published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The
Hospitals and schools have been hit by the "winter vomiting bug," newspapers have reported. Reports have said that norovirus - a highly contagious bug