“Encouragingly, the findings suggest that even a modest amount of walking each day, around 5,000 steps, is linked to a slower build-up of tau protein in the brain, one of the key drivers of ...

The conference abstract ‘Effect of Long-term Melatonin Supplementation on Incidence of Heart Failure in Patients with Insomnia’ by Ekenedilichukwu Nnadi et al. was presented at the American Heart ...

A study published in JAMA Oncology looks at hormonal contraceptive formulations and breast cancer risk in women under 50. Dr Ramón Salazar, Head of Medical Oncology at the Catalan Institute of ...

New data from a major European trial tracking more than 160,000 men for over two decades has found that men who were screened for early signs of prostate cancer were 13% less likely to die from the ...

“The latest results show that PSA screening in this trial prevented 22 prostate cancer deaths per 10,000 men screened, compared to 14 deaths in the previous analysis. It also shows that the harms of ...

Scientists comment on the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change. Dr Chloe Brimicombe, Climate Scientist, Royal Meteorological Society, said: “This report is important and in its ninth year has ...

“This study reports that consuming a cocoa-based drink high in flavanols improves blood flow during sitting. It is already known that the consumption of flavanols improves measures of endothelial ...

Scientists comment on the Microsoft Azure cloud outage. Dr Saqib Kakvi, from the Department of Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of London, said: “At approximately 16:00 UTC, ...

Rapid Reactions: responding to breaking news. The demands of the 24-hour media machine mean that news journalists often don’t have the luxury of time to track down the best scientists when a science ...