"Antibacterial handwash is NO better than soap – and cold water kills as many germs as hot, experts claim," The Sun reports. These were the main findings of a study looking at various methods of handwashing. But the researchers only tested…
"Is our smartphone addiction damaging our children?," The Guardian asks, after publication of a recent study into "technoference" – when people switch their attention away from others to check their phone or tablet…
"Stressed mothers-to-be face an increased risk of giving birth to a child who will develop ADHD or heart disease later in live," the Mail Online reports. However, the new study it is reporting on did not look at long-term outcomes in children…
'High blood pressure during pregnancy can cause lifelong effect on child's IQ' the Daily Mail claims, as they report on a Finnish study. But for those worried that they’ve been born stupid, the study only found an average of a four point difference…
"Women who walk for an hour a day can cut their chance of breast cancer by 14%," The Guardian reports. A new study found that even moderate regular exercise is associated with lower risk of cancer …
"Dogs trained to detect prostate cancer with more than 90% accuracy," The Guardian reports. Two trained bomb-sniffing dogs also proved remarkably successful in detecting compounds associated with prostate cancer in urine samples…
Using sunbeds is “linked to 100,000 cancer cases a year in the UK”, the Daily Express has reported. The story comes from a major review of studies looking at the association between sunbed use and non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSCs)...
LSD “helps alcoholics to give up drinking”, BBC News has today reported. This unusual claim is based on a review examining research into the powerful hallucinogen and its potential to treat alcoholism. The review analysed...
The Daily Telegraph reported that “Popeye was right: spinach really does boost your muscles”. The newspaper said that eating 300g of spinach “reduced the amount of oxygen needed to power muscles by as much as...