Women’s health: Thousands of menopause cases are wrongly diagnosed as depression

Women’s health activists have warned that hundreds of thousands of patients were wrongly prescribed antidepressants. They have called for doctors to be better educated. But the Royal College of GPs insisted menopause was already included in their curriculum, insisting: “Mandatory training courses for some conditions and not others would be unworkable.” Diane Danzebrink, founder of […]

Keto diet craze may lead to reduced bone health: research

The ketogenic diet, popular among athletes seeking a performance edge and people hoping to lose weight, may harm bone health in the long term. Australian research has found that athletes on the keto diet showed impaired markers of bone health, possibly due to inflammation caused by low intake of carbohydrates. The ketogenic diet may not […]

Ibuprofen affected: medicines company gets numerous medications

The Munich-based pharmaceutical company Pure Pharma has recalled 235 of the batches with medication. The texts of the leaflets did not meet the requirements, as the government of upper Bavaria said on Friday. "Due to the non-updated package to be in agreement with the competent authority of the government of upper Bavaria, some zurückgerufen&quot finished […]

Fertility tests double as jobs take priority

The rise is a sign females are now postponing motherhood to focus on their careers, experts said.  Private healthcare firm Pall Mall Medical found more and more women are preparing to freeze their eggs by having fertility testing.  Analysis reveals the number of under-35s seeking testing has risen by 25 percent, with many women prioritising […]

Two million Americans lost health coverage/access in Trump’s first year: study

Over the course of 2017, positive trends in insurance coverage and healthcare access from the Affordable Care Act reversed, particularly for low-income residents of states that did not expand Medicaid. A new Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) study finds that two million more Americans avoided health care because of inability to pay, and/or […]

High blood pressure: Eat this legume to lower your blood pressure reading

High blood pressure occurs when the force of blood pushing against your artery walls is consistently too high. While this may seem harmless, consistently high blood pressure causes the arteries that transport blood to your heart to lose their stretchiness and narrow. Restricting the blood flow to your heart starves it of oxygen, a mechanism […]