Blood test may diagnose Alzheimer's early

	Blood test may diagnose Alzheimer's early A blood test that detects distinct metabolic signatures in blood plasma may diagnose Alzheimer's years before patients begin showing cognitive decline, scientists believe. Researchers at Mayo Clinic analysed cerebrospinal fluid and plasma samples from 45 ...
	What is the Nordic Diet? A healthy Nordic diet lowers cholesterol levels, which thereby cuts the risk of cardiovascular disease, a new study has found. Image Credit: Thinkstock Nordic Diet. There was also decreased inflammation associated with pre-diabetes. “The subjects who ate a ...
	Philippines: where Catholics, condoms and conservatism collide over health Janette Garin couldn't quite believe it when she heard the reproductive health bill had been passed last December. Garin, an MP in the Philippines, had spent nine years battling opposition groups, backed by the Catholic church, to get the bill through.
	Theatre plays performed to celebrate 'World Multiple Sclerosis Day' CHENNAI: Street plays were performed in public places across the city for the last one week to celebrate World Multiple Sclerosis Day. The initiative has been organized by the Theatre Y group and the Chennai chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of India ...
	Anti-smoking clinics fail to help China kick the habit In a country of 300 million smokers and where two trillion cigarettes are produced every year, "smoking cessation clinics" seemed to be a promising business. But the results such clinics have produced show how far off the mark such an effort was. According ...
	Women could 'evolve' out of menopause and bear children later, says scientist Dr Aarathi Prasad said the menopause dated from a time when generations of women were competing over scarce resources and it was not ideal for them all to be bearing children at the same time. But in an age when resources are plentiful, life expectancies ...
	Father seeks euthanasia for 3 sons Abdul Rahim has sought euthanasia or mercy killing for three of his sons suffering from thalassemia, a blood disease. Reason: he has spent his resources and lost his will to carry on after fighting for 16 years. Rahim, 51, ran a shoe shop and a factory in ...
	Paul Inman: Three litres of cola per day kills man, 30, after lungs swell to four ... A man who guzzled up to three litres of cola every day, drank himself to death. An inquest heard how 30-year-old Paul Inman, who had Asperger's syndrome, would walk to the shops more than once a day to buy his fizzy drinks. The huge quantities of cola, ...