Frequent urination at night sign of hypertension – Study
A new study conducted in Japan has found that frequent nighttime urination, called nocturia, may be linked to hypertension and high salt intake.
Nocturia is...
New technologies hold promise, challenges for global health
Technological innovations, such as lowering the costs of diagnostics and treatments and allowing researchers to analyze more and better data, have the potential to lead...
Caution! Higher consumption of sugary beverages linked with increased risk of mortality – Study
The more sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) people consumed, the greater their risk of premature death—particularly death from cardiovascular disease, and to a lesser extent from cancer, according to...
Applying antimalarial drugs to bed nets could lead to drop in malaria transmission – Study
Mosquitoes that landed on surfaces coated with the antimalarial compound atovaquone were completely blocked from developing Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum), the parasite that causes malaria, according to...
Nearly half of childhood cancers worldwide undiagnosed – Study
Nearly half of all childhood cancers are not being diagnosed globally, according to a new modeling study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The...
