A study undertaken by Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) for VicHealth had proven that children who walk to school are more active in their dayly activities then ones that are driven by car. The study also suggests that walking to school increases the connection between children and community.
The study was perform considering surveys and pictures taken from 659 primary school children between ages 9 and 12. The results showed that only 26 per cent of the analyzed children walked to school in the past five days. Also, children who …

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Breast cancer in women can be detected before its first symptoms after a group of Norwegian researchers at Diagenic developed a simple and efficient blood test called BCtect which looks for raised level of chemical markers for cancer picked up as blood flows through a tumor.
The Diagenic BCtect can detect breast cancer the size of a grain of rice even before it becomes visible through traditional methods like x-rays or makes its presence felt through the classical symptoms.  So far tests have proven to be 75% effective in detecting …

Menveo, a new meningitis vaccine, is available in Europe for the first time. The vaccine protects against four major strains of the disease and could be used as a travel vaccine to protect people who travel in sub-Saharan Africa.
Menveo can protect people who have not been vaccinated and will offer longer lasting protection against the disease.  According to Dr. Jane Zukerman at the University College London Medical School: “Travellers should consider visiting a specialist travel health centre where they can be advised and provided with expert knowledge on the diseases …

Curcumin, long used as an effective anti-inflammatory treatment in Indian Ayurvedic medicine, could be used in treating chronic liver diseases like primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosis cholangitis, according to European and American researchers.
The researchers examined tissue and blood samples from mice with chronic liver inflammation who were given curcumin for a period of four and a period of eight weeks and compared the results with equivalent samples from mice with the same condition, but who were not fed curcumin. The results showed that the curcumin significantly reduced curbed liver …